Election results live: Stunning surge in NYC mayoral voters means biggest turnout since 9/11

As of 6pm ET, 1,748,698 voters had cast their ballots in the Big Apple, according to the NYC Board of Elections.

That number also includes the record-breaking 735,000 early votes cast.

This year’s voter turnout is the highest since the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks, when 1,469,454 voters cast their ballots in the 2001 race between Republican Michael Bloomberg and Democrat Mark Green.

It is also the biggest turnout in at least 30 years when just under 1.9 million voted in the 1993 race between Republican Rudy Giuliani and Democrat David Dinkins.

In the 2021 race between Democrat Eric Adams and Republican Curtis Sliwa, 1,125,258 voters came out.

The president is typically eager to endorse candidates he believes can win, and he even spent much of the last 24 hours firing off endorsements on his Truth Social app.

Whenever a candidate he backs does win, Trump has been quick to take credit, in part, for lending the aspiring politico his MAGA brand.

Though as the gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia come to a close, and conservative candidates Jack Ciattarelli and Winsome Earle-Sears continue to trail in most polls, the president has decided to forgo any last-minute campaign stops to bail them out.

Instead, Trump is opting to campaign from home.

Virginia voters are making history as they cast their ballots to elect the state’s first female governor.

Democrat Abigail Spanberger, 46, and Republican Winsome Earle-Sears, 61, are battling it out to replace term-limited Governor Glenn Youngkin.

If elected, Earle-Sears, who is the state’s current lieutenant governor, would also make history as the first black woman elected governor in any state.

Earle-Sears was born in Jamaica and immigrated to the US at the age of six, according to her campaign website.

She served in the Marine Corps and was the first black female elected to statewide office.

Her policies include cutting government spending and lowering taxes, being ‘tough on crime’ and deporting criminal illegal immigrants. She also opposes allowing transgender women to compete in women’s sports.

Spanberger, a former congresswoman, was born in New Jersey, and she started her career as a postal inspector before becoming a CIA case officer.

She has campaigned on lowering healthcare costs and addressing housing affordability through policies such as incentivizing the construction of starter homes.

She has also pledged to defend women’s reproductive rights by codifying them in the state’s constitution.

Democratic strategist Mally Smith, former Senior Political and Coalitions Advisor for the Kamala Harris campaign in North Carolina, told the Daily Mail that he has been ‘hearing rural Republican turnout is incredibly low in Virginia.’

If this continues to hold true, Democrats are going to have a great night up and down the ballot,’ Smith added.

Polls close in Virginia at 7:00 PM EST.

Virginia will make history Tuesday by electing it’s first female governor.

As voters began to cast their ballots this morning, several polling precincts in New Jersey were closed due to bomb threats.

‘Law enforcement responded to threats that were received by email,’ in seven different counties, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin wrote in a statement on X.

The threats involved polling places in Bergen, Essex, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Passaic counties.

Some of the locations were quickly cleared and reopened, according to authorities.

Lieutenant Governor Tahesha Way, who also serves as the state’s top election official, said, ‘Law enforcement has determined that there are no credible threats at this time.’

‘We are doing everything in our power to protect voters and poll workers and coordinate closely with state, local and federal partners to ensure a smooth and safe election.’

At least one juvenile was arrested for sending text message bomb threats against the Livingston Park Elementary School polling location in North Brunswick.

The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s office said in a statement that North Brunswick police took an ‘unidentified juvenile’ into custody.

Megyn Kelly said her former Manhattan apartment has already plummeted in value as wealthy New Yorkers prepare to flee the city, and warned that young Mamdani voters are set to relearn the lesson of history – that ‘socialism always fails.’

‘I’m terrified of this guy getting elected, and I think that’s what’s going to happen on Tuesday. I’m genuinely scared of it. I think this is a terrible, terrible decision,’ she told the Daily Mail.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt hit out at New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani for implying the president could be connected to bomb threats at polling places.

‘I think this is just another example of how the Democrat Party unfortunately stands for nothing. All they stand against is President Donald Trump,’ Leavitt said.

Earlier in the day, Mamdani bizarrely shifted blame onto Donald Trump for reports of bomb threats across multiple polling locations in New Jersey.

‘It’s incredibly concerning, and I think that it is an illustration of the attacks we’re seeing on our democracy,’ the Uganda-born candidate responded.

‘We have to understand this as part of the general approach the Trump administration has taken to trying to intimidate voters with baseless allegations of voter fraud as a means of trying to repress the voice of Americans across this country.’

Here is what times the polls close across the country:

• Virginia – polls close 7pm ET
• New Jersey – polls close 8pm ET
• New York – polls close 9pm ET
• California – polls close 11pm ET

Donald Trump has been accused of secretly hoping Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral election, despite supporting his rival Andrew Cuomo instead.

The president gave a last-minute endorsement to Cuomo via Truth Social on Monday – something which could push liberal anti-Trump New Yorkers even further toward Mamdani.

Cliff Asness, the CEO and co-founder of NYC investment firm AQR Capital Management, has warned that Zoharn Mamdani’s rent freeze plan would be a ‘hydrogen bomb’ for the real estate market.

‘A rent freeze is the hydrogen bomb to the atomic bomb of regular rent controls,’ Asness told the New York Post.

‘Rent control is one of the few issues almost all economists agree destroys the city. So let’s triple down. Genius,’ he added sarcastically.

Mamdani has campaigned on a promise of placing a rent freeze on all rent-stabilized apartments across the Big Apple on his first day as mayor.

In New York City, rent-stabilized apartments are a type of unit covered by a policy that protects tenants from sharp price increases.

Landlords are only allowed to raise the rents of tenants in rent-stabilized units by a percentage determined by the NYC Rent Guidelines Board. The mayor appoints members of the board.

Approximately one million apartments in the Big Apple are covered by rent stabilization.