Overview
- Mamdani defeated Republican Curtis Sliwa and independent candidate Andrew Cuomo in a race called on November 5.
- At 34, he becomes New York's youngest mayor in more than a century and the city's first Muslim mayor.
- He campaigned on free childcare and bus service, municipal low-cost supermarkets, a broad rent freeze, a 2% surtax on income over $1 million, and higher corporate taxes.
- President Donald Trump labeled him a communist, backed Cuomo, and threatened to cut federal funds in response to Mamdani's agenda.
- Many prominent Democrats withheld public support, while Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed him as a leading figure in the Democratic Socialist movement.