During her mayoralty, the mayor greatly improved the city.
He won the mayoralty in the last two elections.
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The prospect of Mamdani’s mayoralty scandalized many of New York’s power brokers, some of whom vowed to stop him in the November general election.—Mark Chiusano, Time, 14 Aug. 2025 Cuomo and Adams are expected to battle for the mayoralty as independent candidates in the general election in November, further advancing a contentious election cycle.—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Aug. 2025 After Mamdani’s 12-point victory over Cuomo in the Democratic primary election, the former governor would face a steep climb to the mayoralty.—Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 2 July 2025 Yet others question whether anything like a Mamdani mayoralty would really provoke millionaires and billionaires to decamp.—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for mayoralty
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Etymology
Middle English mairaltee, from Anglo-French mairalté, from maire
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