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Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani, 34, has won the New York City mayoral election, becoming the youngest and first Muslim to hold the post, NBC News reports.
Mamdani beat former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa. Incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who had been running as a third-party candidate after winning the 2021 election as a Democrat, dropped out of the race in September and had previously endorsed Cuomo.
Mamdani's victory marks a meteoric rise in his political career: in a year, he went from a virtually unknown state legislator who had barely registered to run, to the leader of the largest city in the United States. He also defeated the heir to one of New York City's most iconic political dynasties twice in five months.
As the city's new mayor, Mamdani intends to implement the broad political platform that inspired his supporters during the campaign. Key initiatives include a rent freeze, the introduction of universal childcare, the launch of a free bus service, and the opening of city grocery stores.
Reactions to the election results from US political figures varied. President Donald Trump, on the social media platform TruthSocial, claimed that the Republicans lost because his name was not on the ballot and because of the government shutdown. Meanwhile, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer called the election results a "decisive rejection of the Trump agenda," emphasizing that Americans had rejected the "cruelty, chaos, and greed" inherent in the radical MAGA movement. Senator Bernie Sanders noted that Mamdani's victory was one of the most astonishing political upsets in modern US history.
