Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor of New York City, capping a stunning ascent from little-known state lawmaker just a year ago to one of the most talked-about politicians in the country.

Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City on Tuesday, capping a stunning ascent for the 34-year-old state lawmaker, who was set to become the city’s most liberal mayor in generations.

In a victory for the Democratic party’s progressive wing, Mamdani defeated former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa. Mamdani must now navigate the unending demands of America’s biggest city and deliver on ambitious — skeptics say unrealistic — campaign promises.

With the victory, the democratic socialist will etch his place in history as the city’s first Muslim mayor, the first of South Asian heritage and the first born in Africa. He will also become the city’s youngest mayor in more than a century when he takes office on Jan. 1.

  • BenchpressMuyDebilEnglish
    3011·
    12 hours ago

    Rule 1: posts have the following requirements: Not United States Internal News

    • mjr@infosec.pubEnglish
      181·
      11 hours ago

      NYC has lots of foreign residents and visitors, maybe the most of any USA city, so isn’t a foreign-born mayor there more than merely ‘internal news’? It’s not like the mayoral election of Nowhere, North Dakota.

    • insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      8 hours ago

      This is local but the fascist takeover of America is not local, given the rise of the far right together and American bad actors funding and working abroad. So this news of someone on the left with a major win becomes relevant in the worldwide context.

    • _stranger_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      102·
      10 hours ago

      All world news happens somewhere local. They should rename this com to “Not US News” if that’s how they want to define it and let people who live in the world post news that happens in the world to world news

      • Bruncvik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        9 hours ago

        This rule is legacy from Reddit, where r/news got dominated by US-centric news. r/worldnews was created to allow non-US news to be seen.

        That said, I agree that this is a world news event. If nothing else, this may distract the Trump administration from international bullying for a while. Perhaps even redirect the Venezuelan invasion force to the NYC harbour…

        • _stranger_@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          8 hours ago

          legacy rules from reddit seem like exactly the kind of thing that should be scrutinized before being implemented.

      • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        It’s based on users sending in reports, and positive news for the left or news critical of Israel unleashes an army of rules lawyers.

    • rmrf@lemmy.mlEnglish
      74·
      9 hours ago

      New York has more economic influence on the world than most individual countries. This, economically speaking, is more significant than an eventful election for Australian PM.