MAMDANI ELECTED AS NEW YORK CITY MAYOR IN HISTORIC WIN

Wed 05 November 2025:

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate, won the New York City mayoral election on Tuesday, marking him as the first Muslim and South Asian individual to assume the role.

At 34 years old, Mamdani triumphed over Independent contender and ex-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, as well as Republican Curtis Sliwa, in a landmark win for the progressive faction of the Democratic Party.

Cuomo congratulated Mamdani on his electoral win, saying at an election night rally that “tonight was their night, and as they start to transition to government, we will all help any way we can.”

“We will unite for New York City, because we love New York City, and from the bottom of my heart, I thank each and every one of you,” he told supporters.

Mamdani is expected to deliver remarks in Brooklyn later Tuesday evening.

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Mamdani, an avowed democratic socialist, has run a campaign focused on affordability and social services, promising free buses, universal childcare, city-run grocery stores, rent-stabilized housing and a plan to raise the minimum wage to $30 per hour by 2030. It currently sits at $16.50.

All of this would be paid for, he says, by raising the corporate tax rate to 11.5% — the same as in neighboring New Jersey — as well as a 2% income tax on those earning over $1 million per year.

He has also pledged that he would order the New York Police Department (NYPD) to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should he enter the city, citing the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant against him over war crimes in Gaza.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said Mamdani’s victory marks a “historic turning point” for Muslim Americans.

“Mayor-Elect Mamdani’s ability to win while openly advocating for Palestinian human rights and experiencing a barrage of anti-Muslim hate also marks a historic rebuke of both Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism in politics,” CAIR said in a statement.

“We commend the college students and other young people in New York City who, just one year after being smeared and brutalized for protesting the genocide in Gaza, helped elect a mayor who vocally opposes that genocide and supports the right to peaceful protest,” it added.

Uganda-born Mamdani became the youngest person in the past century to lead the United States’ largest city.

According to the New York Board of Elections, more than 2 million people cast their votes in the race, the highest turnout recorded in a mayoral election in the last 50 years.

At his election watch party in Brooklyn, Mamdani hailed that voter optimism, thanking those who “allowed themselves to hope that the impossible could be made possible”.

He promised to build a coalition, including Jewish New Yorkers and Muslims, to beckon in a “new age” of bold leadership.

“No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election,” he said in a veiled reference to Cuomo’s attacks throughout the race.

He then turned to Trump, who has surged immigration enforcement to the city and threatened funding cuts and a National Guard deployment.

“New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant,” Mamdani said.

“So hear me, President Trump, when I say this: To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.”

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