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

Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York mayor's race turns him, for better or worse, into one of the most high-profile Democrats in the country.

"I know you're watching, turn the volume up," the 34-year-old socialist tells the president as he becomes the first Muslim mayor of New York City.

GOP launches attack ads linking NYC's socialist mayor-elect to vulnerable House Democrats in 2026 midterms, targeting nearly 50 competitive districts nationwide.

Zohran Mamdani has made New York City history with his ascendant election victory Tuesday night, ABC News projects. New Yorkers chose Mamdani to become the city's 111 th mayor, and with that title Mamdani will represent several firsts in the city's three-and-a-half-century existence.

The 34-year-old state assemblyman from Queens has risen from obscurity to national prominence with a bold, left-wing platform.

Zohran Mamdani, the millennial socialist whose unabashedly left-wing campaign for Mayor of New York City unnerved many national Democrats but emboldened others, prevailed Tuesday as expected at the ballot box, installing him as leader of the nation’s largest city and a potentially powerful figure within a party looking for its next act.

Wall Street heavyweights failed to stop New York City voters from electing a democratic socialist mayor. Now what?There was an air of defeat on Tuesday evening in New York’s upper echelons as it became clear that Zohran Mamdani had won the mayor’s race.