Overview
- The New York Board of Elections results reported by AP show Mamdani at about 50.4% to Andrew Cuomo’s roughly 41.6%, and Cuomo conceded as Republican Curtis Sliwa trailed far behind.
- Mamdani, 34, becomes New York City’s first Muslim mayor; he is a state assembly member born in Uganda with Indian roots.
- More than two million ballots were cast, the city’s highest mayoral turnout since 1969, according to election authorities.
- President Donald Trump publicly backed Cuomo shortly before the vote and threatened to limit federal funds to New York if Mamdani won.
- The victor ran on a rent cap, free buses and free childcare financed by higher taxes on wealthy residents and businesses, while Cuomo highlighted his 41.6% as a modern high for an independent, echoing his father’s 1977 result.