How Will Asian Voters Turn Out In NYC's Election?

By Katie Honan, THE CITY

June 4, 2025, 4:59 a.m.

Dear New Yorkers,

There are three (!) weeks left until the primary election, and there’s a last-ditch burst of activity as we are running towards June 24.

There’s a bumpy ad on the Cyclone from Comptroller Brad Lander, who is running for mayor. Speaker Adrienne Adams finally qualified for matching funds and hopes more money can introduce her to more voters. The Working Families Party released their endorsement slate, with Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani ranked first.

The first mayoral debate is this Thursday, airing on WNBC, which will be the first time leading candidate Andrew Cuomo shares a stage with his opponents.

With so much going on, we still wanted to take a step back and look at how the candidates for mayor could be missing out on diverse and growing voters in the city’s many Asian communities.

My colleagues Samantha Maldonado, Haidee Chu and I looked at how that bloc turned out (and not) in the 2024 presidential election — and why that really matters for the Democratic mayoral candidates.

While some heavily Asian neighborhoods like South Ozone Park and Richmond Hill in Queens shifted towards Trump, other neighborhoods ended up in the Republican column not because large numbers of Asian voters switched parties, but because significant numbers of registered Democrats just stayed home.

Read that story here, and double-check your voter registration here.

— Katie Honan and THE CITY’s election team

This press release was produced by The City. The views expressed here are the author’s own.