Washington: New Yorkers have emphatically elected Zohran Mamdani, a left-wing Muslim immigrant who vows to increase taxes on corporations and the top 1 per cent to fund popular services, as their next mayor.

The state assemblyman, 34, will become the youngest mayor of New York for a century, the first Muslim and only the second democratic socialist to run the largest and most important city in the United States, and the global centre of capitalism.

The Associated Press called the race for Mamdani at 9.34pm local time (1.34pm Wednesday AEDT), just half an hour after polls closed.

Mamdani, the Democratic candidate, defeated former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who ran as an independent after losing the party primary to Mamdani in June.

With an estimated 90 per cent of the

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