2025 race briefing
Zohran Mamdani is the mayor of New York City. He won the November 4, 2025 election with 1,114,184 votes (50.78 percent), ahead of Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa, and was sworn in on January 1, 2026. He is the city’s first Muslim mayor and its first South Asian mayor, and the youngest since Hugh J. Grant. He is in office now after that 2025 campaign. The next mayoral election is in 2029.