Overview
- Official tallies show Mamdani at 50.4% to Andrew Cuomo’s roughly 42% and Curtis Sliwa’s about 7%, with more than one million votes cast in the city’s largest mayoral turnout since 1969.
- The 34-year-old democratic socialist is set to take office on January 1, marking a generational and ideological shift at City Hall.
- In a fiery victory speech, he vowed to freeze rents for over one million New Yorkers, expand free bus routes, and provide universal childcare.
- Reaction was swift, with Chris Cuomo saying his brother is “not what Democrats want right now” and CNN’s Van Jones criticizing the speech’s tone as a “character switch.”
- Mamdani named five women, including former deputy mayor Maria Torres-Springer, to co-chair his transition as President Trump threatened federal funding cuts and the ADL said it will track his policies and appointments.