NEW YORK (NewsNation) — New York City's mayoral candidates are making a final push Monday to get voters to the polls as the race to lead America's biggest city nears its finale.

Ahead of Election Day on Tuesday, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa are campaigning across the city as they make their case to succeed outgoing Mayor Eric Adams.

More than 735,000 early votes have already been cast — the highest number ever in a New York City mayoral election — dwarfing 2021’s early in-person turnout, which was the first mayoral race in the city with early voting. This year’s early voter turnout fell short of the total from the last presidential election, when just over 1 million early in-person votes were cast.

Mamdani, 34, a state

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