Overview
- Mamdani secured 50.5% of the vote to defeat Andrew Cuomo by roughly nine points, according to the latest tallies.
- More than two million New Yorkers voted, the highest mayoral turnout in over fifty years, the city election commission reported.
- At 34, he becomes one of the city’s youngest mayors in about a century and its first Muslim mayor.
- President Trump attacked Mamdani during the race and threatened to withhold federal support as the White House budget office keeps about $18 billion for the Hudson Tunnel Project and Second Avenue Subway on hold.
- Democrats point to concurrent victories in Virginia and New Jersey as evidence of momentum, while the NRCC plans to link 2026 House Democrats to Mamdani in campaign messaging.