The new mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, waves to a crowd in the Brooklyn borough of New York on November 4. Sarah Yenesel / EPA

by Daniel Hutton Ferris, Newcastle University

Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, has been elected as New York City’s mayor. He became the first New York mayoral candidate to win more than 1 million votes since 1969, and looks set to secure over 50% of the total vote.

With almost all of the votes counted, independent candidate Andrew Cuomo seems to have been backed by 41.6% of voters. Republican Curtis Sliwa has secured just 7%.

Mamdani, who has become New York City’s first Muslim mayor, swept to victory on what was characterized as a radical left-wing platform. He has promised to tax millionaires more in order to fund free buses and ch

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