Overview
- Mamdani secured about 50.4% of the vote to Andrew Cuomo’s 41.6% with roughly 97% of ballots counted, according to AP and US media projections.
- More than two million New Yorkers voted, the highest turnout since 1969, as Cuomo conceded after running as an independent following his primary defeat.
- Mamdani becomes the city’s first Muslim mayor and its youngest in over a century, elevating a left-wing Democrat with a grassroots, small-donor campaign.
- President Donald Trump backed Cuomo and threatened to curtail federal funds if Mamdani prevailed, while the winner cast himself as Trump’s “worst nightmare.”
- The mayor-elect pledged a rent cap, free buses and universal childcare financed by higher taxes on the wealthy and businesses, proposals that will require state cooperation and face budget constraints.