“The longer term is in our arms, my associates, now we have toppled a political dynasty,” New York Metropolis Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani mentioned to a roaring crowd in Brooklyn.
The mayoral race that skyrocketed to nationwide consideration got here to a surprising conclusion on Tuesday; 34-year-old democratic socialist Mamdani is projected to be the subsequent mayor of New York Metropolis, in response to ABC Information’ evaluation of the vote.
Mamdani’s victory will make him the town’s first Muslim and South Asian mayor. His id grew to become a subject of scrutiny all through the course of the marketing campaign, with Mamdani accusing Impartial candidate former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in addition to Vice President JD Vance, of participating in Islamophobic assaults.
Zohran Mamdani speaks throughout a victory speech at a mayoral election evening watch social gathering, Nov. 4, 2025, in New York.
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Trump has referred to as Mamdani a “communist lunatic” and, earlier than the election Tuesday, threatened to withhold federal funding to New York Metropolis if Mamdani have been to win.
Addressing President Donald Trump by identify in his victory speech Tuesday evening, Mamdani mentioned, “Donald Trump, since I do know you are watching — I’ve 4 phrases for you: Flip the quantity up.”
“New York will stay a metropolis of immigrants, a metropolis constructed by immigrants, powered by immigrants — and as of tonight, led by an immigrant,” Mamdani mentioned.
“So hear me, President Trump, once I say this, to get to any of us, you’ll have to get by all of us. Once we enter Metropolis Corridor in 58 days, expectations shall be excessive. We are going to meet them,” he added.
What started as a state assemblymember’s grassroots marketing campaign shortly become back-to-back historic victories, as Mamdani beat out Cuomo, who ran as an Impartial after shedding to Mamdani within the main.
Mamdani additionally bested Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa within the election on Tuesday.
Chatting with his supporters on Tuesday evening, Mamdani mentioned, “New York tonight, you might have delivered a mandate for change, a mandate for a brand new type of politics, a mandate for a metropolis we will afford and the mandate for a authorities that delivers precisely that.”
“Hope is alive,” Mamdani continued.
“Hope over tyranny; hope over large cash and small concepts; hope over despair. We gained as a result of New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the unattainable may very well be made potential,” he added.
Mayoral candidates, Impartial nominee former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa and Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani take part in a mayoral debate at Rockefeller Middle on October 16, 2025 in New York Metropolis.
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Polls closed at 9 p.m. ET on Tuesday within the election that amassed a historic voter turnout for the town, with over 2 million residents casting their vote. 5 instances as many individuals voted early in 2025 in comparison with the 2021 mayoral race, in response to the New York Metropolis Board of Elections.
Following the announcement of Mamdani’s projected victory, Cuomo conceded the race.
He recommended New Yorkers for exhibiting as much as vote in a municipal election in report numbers and drew a comparability between himself and his father, Mario Cuomo, which he has performed usually all through his marketing campaign.
“Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani,” Cuomo mentioned, earlier than being interrupted by loud booing from the viewers. “No, no, that’s not proper,” Cuomo interrupted his supporters.
“That’s not proper, and that’s not us. Tonight is their evening, and as they begin to transition, we are going to all assist in any method we will, as a result of we want our New York Metropolis authorities to work. We would like it to work for all New Yorkers,” Cuomo mentioned.
Sliwa additionally provided an emotional concession speech to supporters Tuesday evening, stressing that the motion that he constructed on making a safer New York is not going to be erased.
Democratic candidate for New York Metropolis mayor, Zohran Mamdani, waits for his spouse Rama Duwaji to vote within the New York Metropolis mayoral election at a polling website in Astoria, Queens borough of New York Metropolis, November 4, 2025.
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He additionally mentioned his candidacy was proof that voters can’t be purchased or bullied by the institution, as he was pressured to drop out of the race to clear the sector for impartial Andrew Cuomo.
Sliwa provided Mamdani, whom he known as “mayor-elect,” good luck, whereas issuing a warning that if Mamdani implements socialist insurance policies, Sliwa and his coalition will grow to be the Mamdani administration’s “worst nightmare.”
With a concentrate on affordability, Mamdani has pushed plans to freeze the lease for rent-stabilized flats and supply common childcare and free buses. He has referred to as for a 2% tax hike on New York Metropolis residents incomes greater than $1 million a yr to pay for these companies.
