Zohran Mamdani Elected New York City Mayor in High-Turnout Contest

Overview

• The 34-year-old democratic socialist won with roughly 50.3–50.4% over independent Andrew Cuomo at about 41–42%, with Republican Curtis Sliwa near 7%.
• Mamdani becomes New York’s first Muslim mayor and its youngest in more than a century after the city’s largest voter turnout in over five decades.
• In a defiant victory speech, he said New York can show the country how to defeat Trump and told the president to “turn the volume up.”
• Trump labeled Mamdani an “enemy of the Jews,” said any Jewish voter who supports him is “stupid,” and reiterated threats to restrict federal funds to the city.
• Mamdani campaigned on housing and cost-of-living relief, proposing rent freezes, subsidized supermarkets, free transit and childcare funded by higher taxes on the wealthy.