Zohran Mamdani has made New York Metropolis historical past together with his ascendant election victory Tuesday evening, ABC Information initiatives.
“The long run us in our fingers,” he stated in a passionate victory speech.
New Yorkers selected Mamdani to grow to be town’s 111th mayor, and with that title Mamdani will characterize a number of firsts within the metropolis’s three-and-a-half-century existence.
When Mamdani is sworn in on Jan. 1, he will grow to be town’s first Muslim and first New Yorker of South Asian descent to be mayor — in addition to town’s first African-born mayor.
New York Metropolis Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani celebrates throughout an election evening occasion in Brooklyn, New York Metropolis, November 4, 2025.
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Simply 34, Mamdani can even be the second youngest mayor within the metropolis’s historical past. (Mayor John Purroy Mitchel was additionally 34 when he assumed workplace in 1914, whereas Mayor Hugh J. Grant was 30 when he was inaugurated in 1889.)
Mamdani shall be the first immigrant mayor since Mayor Abe Beame, who was born within the U.Okay., assumed workplace in 1974. (Six New York mayors have been born exterior the U.S., previous to Mamdani.)
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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Now a high-profile goal of President Donald Trump — who’s branded the democratic socialist as a “communist” and vowed political retribution — the mayor-elect touted his out-of-the-mainstream political philosophy from the start of his marketing campaign, when he was slightly identified two-term state assemblyman representing Astoria, Queens.
Stressing his youth, he talked about his immigrant expertise as he canvassed town’s numerous neighborhoods, particularly exterior of Manhattan, and sought to deal with their wants.
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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Though he ranked close to the underside of polls to start with of the yr — trailing Mayor Eric Adams and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo by double digits — Mamdani pushed on, specializing in “affordability” and making concrete proposals.
Mamdani has pushed plans to freeze hire for rent-stabilized residences and to supply common baby care 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 providers.
The mayor-elect’s proposals stem from his democratic socialist beliefs, which have come beneath fireplace from not solely Republicans however additionally from some centrist Democrats reminiscent of Cuomo, who contended his proposals have been unachievable.
Democratic candidate for New York Metropolis mayor, Zohran Mamdani, speaks to the media after casting a vote within the New York Metropolis mayoral election, in a park in Astoria, Queens in New York Metropolis, November 4, 2025.
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Mamdani is the second metropolis mayor to have been a democratic socialist member since David Dinkins assumed workplace in 1990.
The mayor-elect has additionally come beneath fireplace for his pro-Palestinian views and feedback that some, together with Cuomo, argued have been antisemitic.
Mamdani has vowed to work for town’s Jewish inhabitants and argued that his foremost piece of criticism was with the Israeli authorities’s actions for the reason that battle started.
However as town’s historical past books are rewritten with Tuesday’s election outcomes, Mamdani additionally is about to interrupt a lesser-known historic mayoral file.
New York Metropolis has not had a mayor with a beard since 1913, when William Jay Gaynor sported one. It hasn’t had a mayor with facial hair since Dinkins.
