Overview
- Zohran Mamdani defeated Andrew Cuomo by roughly nine points with about 50.5% of the vote, becoming New York’s first Muslim mayor at age 34.
- More than two million New Yorkers voted, the highest mayoral turnout in over five decades, according to the city’s election commission.
- Mamdani campaigned on a rent freeze, expanded affordable housing, free buses and childcare, and higher taxes on the wealthy to fund these programs.
- He launched his transition with five appointees, all women, including former FTC chair Lina Khan.
- President Trump renewed threats to curb federal funds for New York and said “We will take care of it,” as some Israeli officials condemned Mamdani, while Democrats also won gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey.