Overview
- The Board of Elections reported Mamdani won 50.4% to Andrew Cuomo’s roughly 41.6%, with Republican Curtis Sliwa at about 7.1%.
- More than two million New Yorkers voted, the highest municipal turnout since 1969, and Mamdani became the first candidate since then to surpass one million votes.
- Mamdani, 34, will be New York City’s first Muslim mayor and ran on a progressive platform including rent freezes, free buses, universal childcare, and city-owned groceries funded by higher taxes on wealthy residents and corporations.
- In a combative victory speech, he addressed President Trump directly, declared “I have four words for you: turn the volume up,” and vowed to resist mass deportations and ICE actions.
- Pundits including CNN’s Van Jones and David Axelrod criticized the speech’s tone as a “character switch” and a missed chance to broaden support, while Cuomo did not make the customary concession call and figures like Bernie Sanders and Bill Clinton offered congratulations.