Throughout the past five months, the New York mayoral debate, which began on June 24th of this year, has been an eventful run featuring candidates Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, and Curtis Sliwa. As of today, November 4, 2025, Zohran Mamdani is at 46.1%, Andrew Cuomo is at 31.8%, and Curtis Sliwa is at 16.3% according to the collected polls of New York for the expectation to win, which shows Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani maintaining a steady lead ahead of his competitors.
On November 5th, 2025, Zohran Mamdani won the 2025 mayoral election for New York with a percentage of 50.4%, Cuomo had a percentage of 41.6%, and Sliwa had a percentage of 7.1%.
Zohran Mamdani was a naturalized citizen from Kampala, Uganda, and immigrated to the United States at the age of 7 and obtained his legal citizenship.
Mamdani is a democratic socialist, a 1st time Muslim mayor, and one of the youngest in 100 years. with experience as a state assemblyman serving in the state legislature, a housing councilor, a foreclosure prevention counselor, helping low-income homeowners in Queens avoid eviction, and has experience organizing communities, such as hunger strikes for taxi drivers’ debt relief and organizing against power plant proposals.
Mamdani has told the people of New York things he would want to do for New York, such as universal free childcare, make buses free for the people of New York, city-owned grocery stores, and even said he would try to raise the minimum wage to $30 by 2030.
However, it is just the first day of his being mayor, so we truly do not know what will happen and what won’t happen. What is known is that it is that 50.6% of New Yorkers are pleased with their new mayor and welcome him with open arms.
