New Yorkers will head to the voting polls this year to cast their votes for a variety of official seats. But the one office everyone has their eye on is the mayor's race.

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Here's everything that happened in the mayor's race this week.

This Week's Election Stories

1. Cuomo's lead over Mamdani narrows in NYC mayoral primary, new poll shows

The race for mayor is tightening, with former Gov. Andrew Cuomo holding a less than 10-point lead over Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, according to a poll from PIX11, Emerson College and The Hill.

In a ranked-choice voting simulation of the Democratic primary, Cuomo defeats Mamdani in the final round with 54% of the vote, compared with Mamdani's 46%.

The first-choice results show Cuomo with 35% support, followed by Mamdani at 23%. Comptroller Brad Lander earned 11%, former Comptroller Scott Stringer held 9%, City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams 8%, state Sen. Zellnor Myrie 5% and state Sen. Jessica Ramos 4%. All other candidates generated under 3% of the vote.

The poll is a stark contrast from a Marist University poll from May 14, which showed Cuomo winning the Democratic primary with 53% of the vote in the final round of voting, compared to Mamdani’s 29%. In that poll, first-choice results also showed Cuomo with 37% support, followed by Mamdani at 18%.

Read more from NY1's Erica Brosnan here.

2. Cuomo docked matching funds again, Adrienne Adams gets cash

Another reprimand for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo from the city's Campaign Finance Board.

For the second time this month, Cuomo's campaign for mayor got docked public matching funds for alleged coordination with a Super PAC that's backing his candidacy.

Earlier in May, Cuomo had lost out on more than $622,000 in matching funds because the Super PAC, known as Fix the City, ran a certain ad.

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams received much different news from the board on Friday.

The late entrant into the race just qualified for $2 million in matching funds, giving her campaign a boost in the final weeks of the campaign.

"It’s going to help me,” she said. “It’s going to help us to boost and get our message across even clearer to the entire city of New York the way we want to."

Read more from NY1's Courtney Gross here.

3. Zohran Mamdani is youngest mayoral hopeful

One of the biggest surprises in the Democratic race for mayor has been the groundswell of support for a previously little-known state assemblyman from Queens — Zohran Mamdani.

Once considered a long shot, Mamdani is the youngest candidate in the race and, perhaps not coincidentally, one of the best at social media — creating videos explaining policy and the affordability crisis in the city.

One of the most liberal candidates in the race, Mamdani has also been a lightning rod for some of his views on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

The 33-year-old Mamdani was born in Uganda and he became a U.S. citizen in 2018. If elected, he would be the city’s first Muslim mayor.

Because of a random drawing, Mamdani will appear first on Democratic voters’ primary ballots this June. But he’s also working hard to appear first on New Yorkers’ social media algorithms.

Read more from NY1's Bernadette Hogan here. 

4. Public advocate endorses Brad Lander, Adrienne Adams for mayor against Andrew Cuomo

It’s just four weeks until primary day and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams is trying to tip the scales away from frontrunner Andrew Cuomo.

Although he had already backed City Comptroller Brad Lander for mayor, in a nod to ranked-choice voting, Williams also endorsed City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams.

“They’ve been doing the work, on the ground, they are what New York needs!” Williams said outside City Hall on Tuesday.

Close allies, Williams and Lander served in the City Council together — and have endorsed one another in past elections.

“This is a time to restore affordability and fight for people in the neighborhoods of New York City, to show that safety is a partnership,” Lander said.

Read more from NY1's Bernadette Hogan here.

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