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11:39 07.11.2025 •
Zohran Mamdani, a once unheralded state lawmaker from Queens whose affordability platform and charisma fueled a meteoric political rise, was elected on Tuesday as the 111th mayor of New York, ‘The New York Times’ writes.
When Mamdani launched his campaign for mayor last fall, he was a relatively unknown state lawmaker. But his message, centered on affordability, along with his buoyant jaunts throughout New York City, quickly gained traction and resonated with thousands of New Yorkers. His platform called for freezing rents on rent-stabilized units, building more affordable housing, raising the minimum wage to $30 an hour, making buses free, increasing taxes on the city’s wealthiest residents and more, ‘The Guardian’ notes.
Zohran Mamdani celebrates during an election night event at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater on November 4, 2025.
Photo: AP
The victory by Mr. Mamdani, 34, a democratic socialist, placed a final stamp on the astonishing ascent of an assemblyman who rose from anonymity to defeat better-known rivals like former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, first in the Democratic primary and now again in the general election.
His win represents a major triumph for progressives, empowering a new coalition of younger voters and immigrants who volunteered for his campaign, filled its coffers with thousands of small donations and flocked to the polls to elect the city’s first Muslim mayor.
When Mr. Mamdani takes office on Jan. 1, he will become the most powerful Muslim elected official in the United States — a breakthrough for many Muslim Americans who feel pride in his success and anxiety over the Islamophobia his campaign has stirred, nearly a quarter-century after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Mr. Mamdani amassed a broad coalition of supporters in places like Astoria, Queens, where people celebrated at a watch party.
Photo: ‘The New York Times’
Mr. Mamdani, who was born in Uganda to parents of Indian descent and moved to New York City as a boy, will also be the first South Asian mayor, the city’s youngest mayor in more than a century, its second democratic socialist mayor and first millennial mayor.
He could face significant challenges bringing the city together after a bitter campaign. He must navigate hostility from President Trump, who has repeatedly attacked him, as he works to deliver on his ambitious affordability-minded campaign promises.
Mr. Mamdani ran on simple pledges to make buses free, to freeze the rent on rent-stabilized apartments and to provide universal free child care.
“It feels like hope,” said Michelle McSweeney, 44 who cast her ballot for Mr. Mamdani at a library in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and brought along her two children. “I don’t think I’ve felt like this since Barack Obama.”
More than 2 million people voted, a level of turnout for a mayoral election not seen since 1969, according to the city’s Board of Elections.
President Trump has frequently insulted Mr. Mamdani and gave a last-minute endorsement to Mr. Cuomo on Monday, writing on Truth Social, “You must vote for him, and hope he does a fantastic job. He is capable of it, Mamdani is not!”
Mr. Trump repeated his vow to withhold federal funds if Mr. Mamdani were elected, saying it was “highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other than the very minimum as required.”
How Mr. Mamdani grapples with the president will be among his greatest and most immediate challenges. Some fear that Mr. Trump will send the National Guard or a surge of immigration enforcement officials into the city after Mr. Mamdani takes office.
Mr. Mamdani was embraced by prominent leaders on the left, including Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. Some Democrats refused to endorse him, and many Jewish leaders expressed deep concerns over his criticism of Israel and his vow to arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he visits New York. Senator Chuck Schumer did not make an endorsement in the race, and on Tuesday would not reveal whom he voted for.
After Mamdani's win, Trump's Truth social post was short and sweet, with the president ominously writing: '…And So It Begins!'
Trump posts ominous warning about Zohran Mamdani's New York victory... and distances himself from Republican candidates after terrible election night, ‘The Daily Mail’ reports.
President Donald Trump immediately turned to spin the strong electoral victories by Democrats on Tuesday night far away from himself.
'Trump wasn't on the ballot, and shutdown were the two reasons that Republicans lost elections tonight,' according to Pollsters,' the president posted on social media as he watched the losses for Republicans pile up in Virginia, New Jersey and New York City.
And when New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani took the stage in Brooklyn to celebrate his historic victory, he made a prominent point to call out Trump by name.
'Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you,' Mamdani noted, before instructing the president to 'turn the volume up' on his speech.
Mamdani's direct challenge to the president was a shot down the Acela line, forecasting what he sees as a grueling political battle he is promising not to shrink away from.
Mamdani also called out Trump as a former New York City landlord who built his wealth on the backs of the less fortunate.
'The Donald Trumps of our city have grown far too comfortable taking advantage of their tenants,' Mamdani jabbed, before continuing that he 'will put an end to the culture of corruption that has allowed billionaires like Trump to evade taxation and exploit tax breaks.'
Michael Flynn Jr., son of Trump's former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn made his own post about GOP losses, adding that 'Democrats sweeping nearly every election tonight is 100% a sign of voter fatigue in the Republican Party.'
'This is a historic repudiation of Trump. Democrats are overperforming across the country. We are not only sweeping every major race, but even in less talked about races like the Miami Mayors race Democrats are winning.'
Zohran Mamdani wins 2025 NYC mayoral election — wastes no time in declaring war on Trump in victory speech
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New Yorkers elected their first socialist mayor Tuesday, handing far-left Democrat Zohran Mamdani a historic victory — as he claimed a mandate for his potentially budget-busting progressive agenda and all but declared war on President Trump, ‘The New York Post’ stresses.
Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, carried 50.4% of votes to independent candidate Andrew Cuomo’s 42% at midnight, with nearly 98% of precincts reporting, the city Board of Elections said. GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa came in third with a rock-bottom 7.1%.
The Uganda-born Mamdani will be the Big Apple’s first Muslim, first South Asian and first socialist mayor, as well as one of the youngest.
“My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty,” Mamdani said in his 20-minute address.
“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in his private life but that [will be] the final time I utter his name.”
The state assemblyman’s rise from dark-horse candidate laser-focused on affordability to ascendant mayor-elect came despite concerns over his youth and inexperience and his “Tax the rich” platform that business elites warned would harm the city.
Mamdani, a proud Democratic Socialists of America member, also faced repeated questions over his past anti-police stance and accusations of antisemitism for his fierce, long-running criticism of Israel.
His stunning win capped an explosive campaign that exposed rifts in the Democratic Party and drew widespread attention, including from Trump — who issued an election-eve endorsement of Cuomo and threatened to withhold federal funds from New York City if Mamdani won.
Cuomo — the former three-term Democratic governor who spent $12 million on his campaign and was buoyed by $55 million from supportive super PACs — argued that the New Yorkers who didn’t vote for Mamdani shouldn’t be left behind.
“This campaign was the right fight to wage,” he said in his concession speech. “It’s also important to note that almost half of New Yorkers did vote to support a government agenda that makes promises that we know cannot be met.”
But the prospect of the nation’s largest city being led by an unapologetic socialist — who vowed to “tax the rich” to pay for his $10 billion agenda – also sent business bigwigs into a full-blown meltdown even before his win.
Republicans such as Trump, who belittled Mamdani as “my little Communist,” alternately salivated over using the socialist’s win as a cudgel against Democrats and plotted to thwart his election.
Mamdani struggled to gain support from many establishment Dems in New York and beyond squeamish about anointing a far-left pol as the future of the party.
Mamdani, who will be sworn in as mayor at 12:01 a.m. Jan. 1, will be the first immigrant to serve as the city’s leader since Abe Beame was elected in 1974.
He also will take the crown as the second-youngest mayor in the city’s history, bumping the “Boy Mayor” John Purroy Mitchel, who was just three months older than Mamdani when he was sworn in at 34 in 1914.
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