Democratic socialist Mamdani wins the primary of the mayor of New York with record votes

The Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani won a historic and deeply polarizing victory by officially receiving the most votes ever recorded in a primary in New York town hall.

After three laps, Mamdani obtained 565,639 votes, exceeding the previous record of 547,901 votes held by David N. Dinkins in 1989, according to the voting totals of choice classified updated published Tuesday by the New York Elections Council.

Mamdani celebrated the milestone on X, publishing: “With the updated RCV totals who have just published by the Council of Elections, our campaign has officially obtained the total votes of a primary in the history of the city of New York.”

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Zohran Mamdani, New York town hall candidate, during a campaign event at the Nan House of Justice in the New York Harlem district, in the United States, on Saturday June 28, 2025. (Photographer: Adam Gray / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The extreme left assembly of Queens obtained 565,639 votes after only three classified choice voting cycles, beating former governor Andrew Cuomo by nearly 13 points, confirms the official data of the BOE. Cuomo finished with 440,655 votes.

The Mamdani campaign immediately seized the figures, praising the result as a “mandate” for progressive policies such as a freezing of the city’s scale, daycare services financed by taxpayers and even “fast and free” public buses.

“This movement has marked the story on election evenings,” said Mamdani in a statement on Tuesday, promising to “keep our promises to reduce costs and build a city worker can afford”.

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The Democratic candidate for town hall Zohran Mamdani appears on stage with his family, including his wife, Rama Dawaji, on the right, during his main electoral group, on Wednesday June 25, 2025, in New York. (AP photo / Heather khalifa)

Mamdani, who openly identifies himself as a democratic socialist, currently represents Astoria and Long Island City in the New York State assembly. His file with two mandates includes the continuation of tenants’ protections, increases in opposite public services and the defense of public transport subsidies.

The classified choice vote was only used for the second time in a primary mayor of New York. Mamdani obtained 56.2% of the votes after three laps, compared to 43.8% Cuomo.

Mayor Eric Adams needed eight rounds in 2021 to reach a narrow 50.4%.

The political change to the left in New York has drawn the attention of state and national leaders.

“I had the first of what I consider as many conversations with the candidate yesterday,” the governor of New York Governor Kathy Hochul told journalists on Tuesday, adding that they had discussed the objectives of shared affordability as well as the concerns of the Jewish communities which “feel under the siege”. Hochul said Mamdani “includes the need” to involve these constituencies.

The candidate of the mayor Andrew Cuomo seated on stage after the demonstrators interrupted his speech at a Democrat mayor for the Medgar Evers College in New York on April 23, 2025. (Reuters / David ‘Dee’ Delgado)

Asked about a social post of truth by President Donald Trump qualifying Mamdani as “communist luncatic” and implying that New York could lose funding under a Mamdani administration, Hochul has firmly pushed.

“We are New Yorkers, we are not going to be intimidated by the threats of Washington, not now, not,” she said.

With the imminent general elections, the eyes are now on the fact that Cuomo or other centrist democrats are raising independent challenges.

“President Trump supports Eric Adams, and we do not think socialism is the answer,” said Cuomo campaign spokesperson Rich Azzopardi to Fox News Digital. “Most New Yorkers are not misleading, and most New Yorkers are not socialist-the majority lies in the middle. We will continue to assess the current situation in the best interest of the inhabitants of the city of New York.”

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The Mamdani campaign did not immediately respond to the request for comments from Fox News Digital.