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New Yorkers went to the mayoral election Tuesday with an unlikely frontrunner on the ballot: a Democratic Socialist whose rise from community organiser to likely next mayor has upended many assumptions about politics in America.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani, 34, was contesting against former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, a former Democrat running as an independent, and Republican Curtis Sliwa.
Mamdani is projected to win the election and will enter office as the first Muslim mayor in the city’s history and one of its youngest, now set to run one of the largest and most diverse cities in the U.S.
The race was called by the Associated Press with roughly 75 percent of ballots counted.
Mamdani is expe
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