Overview
- The Associated Press called the race with Mamdani near 50% of the vote to Andrew Cuomo’s roughly 41%, with Republican Curtis Sliwa trailing around 7–8%, as turnout topped two million for the highest since 1969.
- At 34, he becomes the city’s first Muslim and first South Asian/Asian American mayor and one of its youngest leaders in more than a century.
- A self-described democratic socialist, he ran on a progressive affordability agenda including a temporary rent freeze, free public buses, a city-run grocery pilot, and tax increases on wealthy residents and corporations.
- Cuomo continued into the general as an independent after losing the Democratic primary, as pro-Cuomo super PACs spent heavily against Mamdani while he gained late endorsements from Hakeem Jeffries and Kathy Hochul.
- National Republicans attacked his positions on Israel and policing, with President Trump threatening to restrict federal funds and allies urging citizenship probes; Mamdani has apologized to the NYPD and indicated he would keep Commissioner Jessica Tisch.