Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor of New York City, defeating former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent, and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa.
The Associated Press called Mamdani the winner less than an hour after polls closed on Tuesday night. According to the New York Times, with 75% of the votes counted, Mamdani leads with 860,327 votes (50.4%), Cuomo trails with 704,866 votes (41.3%) and Sliwa is in a distant third with 128,400 votes (7.5%).
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