Mamdani declares victory, Cuomo concedes in NYC mayoral elections

• Zohran Mamdani has won the closely-watched mayoral election in New York City, defeating independent Andrew Cuomo, according to projections by the Associated Press news agency.
• Mamdani, who calls himself a democratic socialist, will become the city’s first Muslim mayor.
• He has drawn liberal voters with plans for free childcare, free bus transport and a rent freeze affecting roughly one million rent-regulated New Yorkers.
• Democratic candidates are also racking up wins in other key races, including the gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia.
• Voters in California have approved new congressional maps that could flip as many as five Republican-held House seats to Democratic control in the 2026 midterm elections.
• Democrats keep control of Texas district as two candidates advance to run-off
• Democrats have held onto a US House of Representatives seat in Texas, continuing the party’s winning streak in Tuesday’s elections. The party just doesn’t know which of its candidates will hold the seat.
• Amanda Edwards and Christian Menefee, both Democrats, will face off in a run-off in Texas’s 18th Congressional District next year after the candidates took the top two spots in the 16-candidate race and failed to win a majority of votes.
• The race for the seat, which covers much of inner city Houston, was prompted by the death of Democratic Representative Sylvester Turner in March.
• With about two-thirds of ballots counted, Menefee had won about 30 percent of the votes while Edwards had about 26 percent, according to The New York Times.

How many votes did Mamdani get?

About 91 percent of the votes cast in New York’s mayoral race have been counted.

Mamdani won 50.4 percent of the vote while Cuomo won 41.6 percent.

This translates to 1,036,051 votes to 854,995, according to provisional results.

Sliwa won 7.1 percent, or 146,137 votes.

• Who are Mamdani’s parents?
• As Zohran Mamdani delivered his acceptance speech on Tuesday night before cheering supporters, he was flanked by his parents — father Mahmood Mamdani and mother Mira Nair.Mahmood Mamdani, 79, was born in Mumbai, India, but grew up in Uganda, where his son Zohran was also born. A veteran anthropologist, Mahmood is a professor at Columbia University and continues to maintain links with universities in Uganda.Nair, 68, is a celebrated filmmaker who has delivered multiple crossover hits touching on India’s evolution into a modern society and the identity struggles of its vast diaspora. Her best-known films include the Denzel Washington-starrer Mississippi Masala and the 2001 classic, Monsoon Wedding.
• Mississippi Masala was set against the backdrop of the expulsion of South Asians from Uganda under Idi Amin, an exodus in which her husband was also caught up, in 1972. Monsoon Wedding explored child sexual abuse within traditional Indian families, a subject that was largely taboo at the time.Click here to share on social media.
• 1h ago (07:30 GMT)‘Hope won’: London mayor congratulates Mamdani In a message posted on X, London Mayor Sadiq Khan has congratulated Mamdani for his “historic campaign” in the New York City mayoral race.“New Yorkers faced a clear choice – between hope and fear – and just like we’ve seen in London – hope won,” Khan wrote, congratulating Mamdani on “his historic campaign”.Khan had also made history in the UK in 2016 by becoming the first Muslim and first ethnic minority mayor of London.