A substantial majority of New York City residents reject socialist policies as a governing approach.

Resolution criteria required using electoral outcomes or polling in subsequent NYC mayoral races to detect rejection of explicitly socialist platforms. The 2025 New York City mayoral election (Nov 4, 2025) produced a clear electoral result contrary to the claim: Zohran Kwame Mamdani — who publicly identifies as a democratic socialist and ran with an explicitly democratic-socialist platform — won the citywide mayoral race. Official Board of Elections returns show Mamdani received 944,950 votes on the Democratic line and 169,234 votes on the Working Families line (combined 1,114,184 votes) out of 2,218,647 total applicable ballots, i.e., roughly 50.2% of ballots cast. Because an explicitly democratic-socialist candidate won a majority/plurality in the subsequent NYC mayoral race by the resolution date (Nov 30, 2025), the claim that “a substantial majority of New York City residents reject socialist policies as a governing approach” is contradicted by the electoral evidence and is therefore judged incorrect under the supplied criteria.