Overview
- AP projected Mamdani the winner with about 50.4% to Andrew Cuomo’s 41.6%, with Curtis Sliwa near 7% and more than two million ballots cast, the highest mayoral turnout since 1969.
- At 34, he will be the city’s youngest mayor in more than a century and its first Asian American and Muslim leader.
- He ran on an affordability agenda featuring a temporary rent freeze, fare-free buses, expanded childcare and a city-run grocery pilot funded by higher taxes on wealthy residents and corporations.
- President Donald Trump attacked him as a “communist,” threatened to restrict federal aid and deploy National Guard troops, and Republican figures urged reviews of his citizenship and naturalization.
- Mamdani’s bid drew late backing from Hakeem Jeffries and Gov. Kathy Hochul along with support from Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and he signaled continuity on public safety by saying he would keep NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch and apologizing for past remarks about the police.