NYC Mayoral Polls Results 2025 Explained: Zohran Mamdani has Ugandan heritage and is the son of filmmaker Mira Nair. If elected, he would be New York City’s first Indian-American and first Muslim mayor.
Indian-American Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary election for New York City mayor on Tuesday (June 24), delivering a stunning defeat to party bigwig and challenger, Andrew Cuomo.
“I will fight for a city that works for you, that is affordable for you, that is safe for you,” Mamdani said in his victory speech early on Wednesday. “We can be free and we can be fed. We can demand what we deserve.”
On Tuesday, voters registered with the city’s Democratic Party voted in a ranked-choice system to select the party’s candidate for mayoral elections later this year. Cuomo, a heavy favourite until recent weeks, polled at 36.4% and conceded the race.
The result thus sets up the 33-year-old Mamdani to win the party’s nomination in the heavily Democratic city. While the election concerns an 8 million-strong city that is one of the world’s largest melting pots, the rather local political contest has grabbed widespread attention in no small part due to Mamdani’s campaign. A representative in the New York State Assembly, he is a self-described “democratic socialist” who has presented himself as the choice of progressive and working-class voters. He recently called himself US President “Donald Trump’s worst nightmare”, speaking of his background and ideology. LINK-https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-global/zohran-mamdani-indian-american-new-york-next-mayor-10086827/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-intl
