33-year-old socialist Zohran Mamdani beat 67-year-old former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday night, and is well on his way to becoming the city’s first Muslim mayor.
Cuomo conceded the race earlier in the evening after Mamdani received nearly 44% of the votes with 90% of the votes counted at 10:30 p.m. ET. The former governor said at a watch party: “He deserved it. He won.” He told the NY Times that he may still run in the November mayoral election as an independent, saying “I want to analyze and talk to some colleagues.”
That said, as the Guardian notes, given how left-leaning NYC is along with the unpopularity of incumbent mayor Eric Adams, Mumdani is likely to become New York’s 11th mayor.