“The longer term is in our palms, my mates, we have now toppled a political dynasty,” New York Metropolis Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani stated to a roaring crowd in Brooklyn.
The mayoral race that skyrocketed to nationwide consideration got here to a shocking conclusion on Tuesday; 34-year-old democratic socialist Mamdani is projected to be the following mayor of New York Metropolis, in accordance with ABC Information’ evaluation of the vote.
Mamdani’s victory will make him the town’s first Muslim and South Asian mayor. His identification grew to become a subject of scrutiny all through the course of the marketing campaign, with Mamdani accusing Unbiased 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 night time watch celebration, Nov. 4, 2025, in New York.
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Trump has known 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 night time, Mamdani stated, “Donald Trump, since I do know you are watching — I’ve 4 phrases for you: Flip the amount 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 stated.
“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 can be excessive. We’ll meet them,” he added.
What started as a state assemblymember’s grassroots marketing campaign rapidly changed into back-to-back historic victories, as Mamdani beat out Cuomo, who ran as an Unbiased after dropping to Mamdani within the major.
Mamdani additionally bested Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa within the election on Tuesday.
Talking to his supporters on Tuesday night time, Mamdani stated, “New York tonight, you’ve gotten delivered a mandate for change, a mandate for a brand new sort 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 huge cash and small concepts; hope over despair. We received as a result of New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the not possible might be made attainable,” he added.
Mayoral candidates, Unbiased nominee former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa and Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani take part in a mayoral debate at Rockefeller Heart 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 accordance with the New York Metropolis Board of Elections.
Following the announcement of Mamdani’s projected victory, Cuomo conceded the race.
He counseled New Yorkers for exhibiting as much as vote in a municipal election in file numbers and drew a comparability between himself and his father, Mario Cuomo, which he has finished typically all through his marketing campaign.
“Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani,” Cuomo stated, earlier than being interrupted by loud booing from the viewers. “No, no, that isn’t proper,” Cuomo interrupted his supporters.
“That isn’t proper, and that isn’t us. Tonight is their night time, and as they begin to transition, we’ll 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 stated.
Sliwa additionally provided an emotional concession speech to supporters Tuesday night time, stressing that the motion that he constructed on making a safer New York won’t 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 web site in Astoria, Queens borough of New York Metropolis, November 4, 2025.
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He additionally stated 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 sphere for unbiased 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 develop into the Mamdani administration’s “worst nightmare.”
With a give attention to affordability, Mamdani has pushed plans to freeze the hire for rent-stabilized flats and supply common childcare and free buses. He has known as for a 2% tax hike on New York Metropolis residents incomes greater than $1 million a yr to pay for these companies.
