More New Yorkers back Mamdani but say city on wrong track: Poll

A plurality of New York voters approve of the job Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) is doing in office, but nearly 60 percent say their city is on the wrong track, according to a new poll released Thursday.

In the survey, conducted by Emerson College Polling and PIX11, 43 percent of the city’s registered voters approve of Mamdani’s job performance, while 27 percent disapprove. Another 30 percent are neutral.

As the city’s first democratic-socialist mayor approaches his 100th day in office, Mamdani finds more support from registered voters who participated in the November 2025 election than from those who opted not to vote at all.

“Among those registered voters who voted in the November mayoral election, Mamdani’s support is stronger, with a net 26-point positive approval rating (55% approve, 29% disapprove), compared to a more modest nine-point net positive rating among those who did not vote (35% approve, 26% disapprove),” Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, said in a statement.

The results of the two-day Emerson survey, which concluded Monday, are similar to a poll released Wednesday from the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, which found 48 percent of New York City residents approving of Mamdani’s job performance, 30 percent disapproving and 23 percent saying they’re not sure.

Even as Mamdani enjoys a net positive approval rating in both surveys, a majority of registered voters in the Emerson survey — at 59 percent — say New York City is on the wrong track, while 41 percent say the city is headed in the right direction.

In the Marist poll, meanwhile, 56 percent of residents said things were moving in the right direction, and 43 percent disagreed.

New Yorkers in both surveys largely agreed that Mamdani was focusing on issues important to them, including 59 percent of registered voters in the Emerson survey.

In that latest survey, a majority of New York voters — at 54 percent — approve of the way Mamdani is handling child care, compared to 21 percent who disapprove; 49 percent approve of his handling of housing affordability, compared to 25 percent who disapprove; 45 percent approve of his handling of public safety, compared to 32 percent who disapprove; and 40 percent approve of Mamdani’s handling of the city budget, compared to 37 percent who disapprove.

In the Marist poll of New York residents, 74 percent said Mamdani is working hard as mayor; 61 percent said he understands the problems facing the city, is a good leader, cares about people like them and is doing more to unite the city than divide it; and 60 percent said the mayor is fulfilling his campaign promises.

The Emerson College Polling survey, which included 850 New York City registered voters, was conducted on April 5-6 and had a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points.

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