Democrat Zohran Mamdani elected mayor of New York City
Posted on: Nov 05, 2025 08:12 IST | Posted by: Cbc
Democrat Zohran Mamdani made chronicle in young house of york metropolis on tues, elected as the city's first Muslim mayor, defeating former New York governor Andrew Cuomo.
More than two million people voted in New York City's mayoral election, according to the city's Board of Elections, the strongest turnout since 1969.
The campaign laid bare the Democratic Party's generational and ideological divides as it seeks to rehabilitate its damaged brand.
Mamdani managed to energize progressives to score a surprise victory in the Democratic primary over Cuomo — the once-powerful former governor — with a campaign that focused on lowering the cost of living in one of the country's most expensive cities.
He generated national buzz and won endorsements from big-name progressives, including U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
His campaign promises included raising taxes on the richest New Yorkers and using the money to make city buses free and provide free, universal child care. He has also promised to freeze rent for people living in about one million rent-regulated apartments.
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But not everyone embraced the 34-year-old assemblyman.
Mamdani's past criticism of the city's police department and the Israeli government's military actions in Gaza — which he has called genocidal — have unnerved some centrists who see him as a potential setback in their effort to broaden the party's national appeal. Some Jewish leaders have also seized on his refusal to support Israel as a Jewish state, calling him a danger to Jews.
While Mamdani has distanced himself from some of his past rhetoric on policing, some top New York Democrats remain concerned and have either been slow to endorse him or outright refused to.
He also drew the ire of U.S. President Donald Trump and other Republicans, who tried to cast him as the face of a new, more radical Democratic Party.
Trump has also threatened to take over the city if Mamdani wins, as well as arrest and deport the state assembly member, who was born in Uganda but is a U.S. Citizen.
Trump reluctantly endorsed Cuomo on the eve of the election, saying Mamdani would bring "disaster" to the city and encouraging Republican Curtis Sliwa backers to vote for Cuomo instead.
But the former governer was unable to mount a successful political comeback four years after he resigned in the face of sexual harassment allegations, which he denies.
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