Here Are The Results of SurveyUSA Election Poll #15919

Geography Surveyed: New York City
Data Collected: 10/17/2009 - 10/19/2009
Release Date: 10/20/2009 9:45 AM ET
Sponsor: WABC-TV New York

14 Days To Go, NYC Mayor Bloomberg 12 Atop Thompson in Bid For 3rd Term: In an election for New York City mayor today, 10/20/09, two weeks until votes are counted, incumbent Mayor Mike Bloomberg is re-elected to a third term, defeating Democratic challenger Bill Thompson 53% to 41%, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted exclusively for WABC-TV. Bloomberg is dominant among women, whites and Hispanics; in Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island. Thompson does best among blacks, residents of Brooklyn and The Bronx.

Filtering: SurveyUSA interviewed 1,100 city of New York adults 10/17/09 through 10/19/09. Of them, 962 were registered to vote. Of the registered voters, 583 were determined by SurveyUSA to be likely to vote in the 11/03/09 general election. Although SurveyUSA produces tracking graphs for this contest, the 3 releases were not identical. SurveyUSA's 10/06/09 release identified Bloomberg as a Republican, Thompson as a Democrat (Bloomberg led by 8); SurveyUSA's 10/13 release did not include a party label for either candidate (Bloomberg led by 17). SurveyUSA's 10/19/09 release described the ballot lines on which each candidate will appear (Bloomberg leads by 12). All 3 releases rotated the candidate names.