ABC Information initiatives Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani will win the race for New York Metropolis mayor, in a history-making victory over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who was working as an unbiased, and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa.
Mamdani, 34, a state Assemblyman and democratic socialist who campaigned on a progressive financial platform, is about to develop into the town’s first Muslim and South Asian mayor in an election that noticed greater than 2 million voters pack the polls — the very best turnout for a mayoral election since 1969.
New York Metropolis mayoral candidates, Andrew Cuomo, Oct. 7, 2025, Zohran Mamdani, Oct. 8, 2025 and Curtis Sliwa, Sept. 13, 2025.
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With about 60% of the anticipated vote reporting, Mamdani was main with 50% of the vote, adopted by Cuomo at 42% and Sliwa with 8%.
Mamdani had remained the front-runner since clinching the Democratic major and notched key endorsements from figures equivalent to Gov. Kathy Hochul. However he confronted some backlash over the feasibility of his proposals and present or former views on points equivalent to policing.
Cuomo, 67, had tried a political comeback, after leaving the general public eye when he resigned as governor in 2021 amid sexual harassment and inappropriate conduct allegations. He has framed himself as a reasonable who can faucet into his earlier expertise as governor to ship.
Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, individually, rebuffed calls to drop out of the race and argued that he is above the fray of the opposite candidates; he confronted off in opposition to incumbent Eric Adams in 2021.
Adams himself selected to not run within the Democratic major and initially mounted an unbiased marketing campaign, however suspended his campaign in late September, saying that media hypothesis and funds withheld by the town’s marketing campaign finance board undermined his means to fundraise.
