Mamdani officially wins the Primary Democrat mayor of New York on Cuomo

It never made any doubt after his superb victory last week, but Zohran Mamdani was officially declared winner of the primary of the New York Democratic Party for the mayor.

But the big question remains: the 33 -year -old Democratic socialist from Queens – who defeated the former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo – will again face Cuomo during the November elections in November?

The New York City Elections Council published the official results of three voting cycles classified by the primary mayor last week, and Mamdani took the majority in the third round, with 56% of the votes.

Cuomo, the governor with three mandates who resigned from his duties in 2021 in the midst of several scandals and who aimed at political return, won 44% of the votes. Cuomo was the favorite of the mayor’s primary race for months until Mamdani gave up in the last weeks of the campaign.

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The Democratic candidate for town hall Zohran Mamdani goes on stage during his main electoral group on Wednesday June 25, 2025 in New York. (AP photo / Heather khalifa)

With his victory over Cuomo and nine other candidates – officially called by the Associated Press – Mamdani is now a major stage to become the first Muslim mayor in the most populous city in the country.

Mamdani, of which last week sent political shock waves across the country, won more than 545,000 votes, the highest total for a primary winner of the Democrat mayor in New York in almost four decades. And more than a million voting bulletins have been deposited in primary school, the largest total since 1989.

“I am humiliated by support,” wrote Mamdani in an article on social networks. And he swore: “This is only the start of our expanding coalition to make the city of New York. And we will do it together.”

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Mamdani is now considered the favorite of the highly blue city of the city of New York, where Democrats are more numerous than the Republicans by a margin of about six to one.

He will compete in November against the outgoing mayor Eric Adams – a democrat who presents himself to be re -elected as independent after his number of surveys has dropped.

Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a campaign launch rally at the Town Hall on Thursday, June 26, 2025 in New York. (AP photo / yuki iwamura)

Adams survey numbers were still running before he was even charged last year with five counts, who accused the mayor of corruption and fraud as part of an alleged “long -term” regime to personally take advantage of contacts with foreign officials.

The mayor made repeated openings to the president Donald Trump, And the Ministry of Justice earlier this year rejected the accusations of corruption, so that Adams can potentially work with the Trump administration on its illegal immigration repression.

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Also on the voting bulletin is the Republican Curtis Sliwa, the founder of patrols of fight against volunteer crime known as Guardian Angels. Sliwa is the GOP candidate for a consecutive second electoral cycle. Former federal prosecutor Jim Walden is also in November in November as an independent.

The founder of Guardian Angels, Curtis Sliwa, is the GOP candidate for town hall in New York for a second consecutive election. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images)

Although he recognized Mamdani’s victory during the primary night, Cuomo left the door open for having run as an independent candidate, who settles the rules of elections in the license of New York State.

And Cuomo let a date on last week for candidates who had already qualified themselves to present themselves as independent to refuse this independent voting line.

But sources told Fox News last week that Cuomo had not yet undertaken to carry out an active general electoral campaign throughout the summer and in the fall.

If Cuomo abandons the race on a later date, his name will remain on the general electoral bulletin.

Cuomo Campaign Senior Advisor Rich Azzopardi, in an apparent jab in Mamdani, said on Tuesday that “extremism, division and empty promises are not the answer to the problems of this city, and although this was an overview of what motivates a tranche of our main electorate, it does not represent the majority. financial results. “

“We will continue conversations with people from all over the city while determining the next steps,” added Azzopardi.

Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo admits that the Zohran Mamdani rival won the town hall primary of the town hall on June 24, 2025 in New York. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)

Mamdani has achieved a main victory thanks to an energetic campaign that has emphasized the affordability and high cost of New York.

The approvals of representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the progressive rock star and the most eminent leader in New York on the left, and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the progressive champion and the second Democratic candidate for the presidential election, helped Mamdani to consolidate support on the left.

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Mamdani has made intelligent use of social media platforms, including Tiktok, while he was engaging in low propagation voters. He proposed to eliminate the prices to set up the vast bus system from New York, making rents from Cuny (University of the City of New York), freezing rents on municipal housing, offering “free daycares” for children up to 5 years and the establishment of grocery stores managed by the government.

And Mamdani, thanks in part to the efforts of a huge people’s popular army of volunteers, led a wave of support from younger and progressive voters to catapult themselves in first place.

Azzopardi, in his statement on Tuesday, recognized that “this primary saw a massive peak in voters under the age of 30, and those who had never voted before – completely changing the overall electorate, which is why no survey or model predicted the result – a result which was also felt in council races throughout the city.”

Mamdani’s superb victory last week has rekindled long -standing debates within the Democratic Party between its more moderate and progressive wings, and between foreigners and the establishment.

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And that rekindled the debate on the question of whether the party policy or messaging was to blame for the setbacks of last November elections, when the Democrats lost control of the White House and the Senate, and did not recognize the majority of the room.

In New York, the main leaders of the Democratic Party, including Governor Kathy Hochul, the leader of the Senate Chuck Schumer and the house chief, representative Hakeem Jeffries, praised Mamdani’s campaign. But they have refrained, for the moment, to approve him from the mayor’s candidate.