In the New York City mayoral election, sports fans submitted write-in votes for local stars including Jalen Brunson, Aaron Judge, and Jaxson Dart.

The New York mayor-elect's victory has motivated the European left, with politicians casting themselves as their country's version of Mamdani, and strategists eager to study how he won.

The vote totals for the 2025 mayoral election in New York City were released, and Judge received 11 write-in votes. The New York Yankees star wasn't the only baseball player who received some write-in recognition, as free agent Pete Alonso, who has spent his entire career on the New York Mets, received three.

Zohran Mamdani's mayoral campaign and subsequent election as New York City's first Muslim mayor in November 2025 has triggered a wave of Islamophobic disinformation on social media, including posts claiming police in the United States' largest city responded to his win by teaching people how to wear the hijab.

Here, per Spencer Gustafson of WPIX-TV in New York, are the athletes who received at least one write-in vote to become mayor of New York in Jan. 2026. The list includes the living and the dead, as well as representatives of three different sports.

Cam Skattebo. LeBron James. Sandy Koufax. Rob Manfred. Walt Frazier. Stephen A. Smith. All of them got write-in votes.

While a majority of voters in Queens cast a ballot for Mamdani, others voted for former Governor Andrew Cuomo or Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa. But a handful of those voters got a little more creative.

State law mandates counties, cities, towns or school districts with a record of discrimination in New York must seek approval from state election officials before approving major changes to local voti

Benjamin Netanyahu taunted Zohran Mamdani, saying he would return to New York, defying the socialist mayor-elect's pledge to have him arrested on charges of war crimes.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says three of his New York offices were targeted with emailed bomb threats from an email address alleging the “2020 election was rigged.”

Trump confidently carried Iowa Senate District 35 by about 21 points in 2024. In January, Democrat Mike Zimmer flipped the seat, winning by roughly 4 points over Republican Katie Whittington. The result was about a 25-point overperformance by Democrats compared with Trump’s margin a year earlier.