Zohran Mamdani has been elected Mayor of New York City, defeating former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa.

According to the city’s Board of Elections, more than 2 million New Yorkers cast ballots in the election, the largest turnout in a mayoral race in more than 50 years.

With roughly 90% of the votes counted, Mamdani held an approximately 9 percentage point lead over Cuomo, capping a stunning ascent for the 34-year-old state lawmaker, who promised to transform the government to restore power to the working class and fight back against a hostile Trump administration.

Mamdani’s rise also gives credence to Democrats who have urged the party to embrace more progressive candidates instead of rallying behind centrists in hopes of winning back swing voters who have abandoned the party.

At his victory party, Mamdani declared to the roaring, “The conventional wisdom would tell you that I am far from the perfect candidate.”

“I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older. I am Muslim. I am a democratic socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this.”
Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani cast his win as a boon for blue-collar workers struggling to get by. “New York, tonight you have delivered a mandate for change,” he said, pledging to “wake up each morning with a singular purpose: To make this city better for you than it was the day before.”

In his speech, Mamdani addressed US President, Donald Trump, who not only threatened retribution against the city but also suggested he might try to arrest and deport Mamdani if he won.

Mamdani was born in Uganda, where he spent his early childhood, but was raised in New York City and became a US citizen in 2018.

“New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight, led by an immigrant.

“If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him.”
Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s campaign was driven by his optimistic view of the city and his promises to improve the quality of life for its middle and lower classes.

Among the campaign’s promises are free child care, free city bus service, city-run grocery stores and a new Department of Community Safety that would send mental health care workers to handle certain emergency calls rather than police officers.

It is unclear how Mamdani will pay for such initiatives, given Democratic Governor, Kathy Hochul’s steadfast opposition to his calls to raise taxes on wealthy people.

Mamdani, who was criticized throughout the campaign for his thin resume, will now have to begin staffing his incoming administration and planning how to accomplish the ambitious agenda that drove him to victory.

Cuomo, Sliwa Concede

download 23 — Andrew Cuomo speaks after conceding the race to Zohran Mamdani.

Former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa conceded.

In his concession speech, Cuomo called his campaign “a caution flag that we are headed down a dangerous, dangerous road” and noted that “almost half of New Yorkers did not vote to support a government agenda that makes promises that we know cannot be met.”

Nonetheless, he offered to help the incoming Mayor in any way.

Mamdani’s grassroots campaign centered on affordability, and his charisma spoiled Cuomo’s attempted political comeback.

The former Governor, who resigned four years ago following allegations of sexual harassment that he continues to deny, was dogged by his past throughout the race and was criticized for running a negative campaign.

Sliwa, the creator of the Guardian Angels crime patrol group, also conceded the race about a half hour after the polls closed, wishing Mamdani “good luck because if he does well, we do well.”

However, he issued a warning, “If you try to implement socialism, if you try to render our police weak and impotent, if you forsake the people’s public safety, we will become the Mayor-elect and his supporters’ worst enemies.”

With his commanding win, Mamdani will etch his place in history as the city’s first Muslim Mayor, the first of South Asian heritage and the first born in Africa.

He will also become New York’s youngest Mayor in more than a century when he takes office on January 1, 2026.

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