Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state lawmaker from Queens and prominent democratic socialist, was elected New York City’s next mayor, a victory that delivered a seismic blow to the city’s deep-rooted power structures and brought all eyes on a fractured Democratic Party charting its future against Donald Trump.
Mamdani will enter office in January as the first Muslim mayor in the city’s history, and one of its youngest, now set to run one of the largest and most diverse cities in the United States.