Zohran Mamdani Wins New York City Mayor’s Election

November 5, 2025

Yesterday the Democrats had a better day than they deserve. Their candidates did win in New Jersey, Virginia and New York City:

Zohran Mamdani, a young democratic socialist who shot to stardom and shook up Democratic politics, will be the next mayor of New York City.

Less than 40 minutes after the polls closed at 9 p.m. on Nov. 4, the Associated Press and CNN called the race for Mamdani, the Democratic nominee. With 91% of the vote counted, Mamdani had 50.4% of the vote, 9 points of his next closest opponent, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo with 41.6%. Cuomo ran as an independent after losing to Mamdani in the Democratic primary.

Mamdani, 34, will be the first Muslim mayor and first Asian American mayor of the nation’s largest city. The state lawmaker won after a contentious campaign defined by Democratic infighting over his ambitious proposals and past criticisms of Israel and the NYPD. Billionaires such as former Mayor Mike Bloomberg spent millions on efforts to defeat him.

It was remarkable that Zohran Mamdani did not pledge fealty to the Zionists (yet). It is somewhat uplifting that this likely enabled him to win.

But the hype around reminds me of the hype around one Barack Obama shortly before he became a bloody and bad president. It makes me suspicious of his verbalized aims and opinions.

There is also this:

Alex Soros @AlexanderSoros – 3:05 utc · Nov 5, 2025

So proud to be a New Yorker! The American dream continues!
Congrats, Mayor @ZohranKMamdani
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Hmm …

Marx Engels Lenin Stalin Mao Institute @MarxEngelsLnin – 12:40 utc · Nov 5, 2025

If you think the Soros family endorses actual socialists then I have several bridges and a miracle cure to sell you.

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Michael Tracey @mtracey – 12:56 utc · Nov 5, 2025

Who wants to bet that within six months Zohran will be considered centrist/establishment by much of the Left

That bet looks like a sure win.

Posted by b on November 5, 2025 at 16:02 UTC | Permalink

Comments

The candidate’s stated opposition to the holocaust in occupied Palestine is a good reason for casting a vote for him.
But the financial system, late stage monopoly capitalism, is the foundation that supports and promotes the holocaust as well as other conflicts.
The Democrat and Republican parties are the wings of the same bird that is subordinate to this financial system, so it will be difficult for the candidate to implement his stated campaign goals because these capitalists will stop at nothing.

Posted by: Frank | Nov 6 2025 15:57 utc | 201

@ Republicofscotland | Nov 6 2025 15:57 utc | 203

everybody knows that.. they just don’t mention it in the MSM, lol… i am sure the peace prize people know this too… they are probably paid very well for the propaganda!

Posted by: james | Nov 6 2025 16:00 utc | 202

apparently mariam adelson has no influence on trumps decision making, or the fact trump was pushing for folks to elect anyone other then mamdani… the fact is, trump comes across as ‘scot free’ for his devoted fan base with regard to everything horrible that the usa is behind… teflon don is what they call him!

Posted by: james | Nov 6 2025 16:02 utc | 203

There is only one party in the yankeeland: the zionist plutocratic oligarchy.
Posted by: Naive | Nov 6 2025 15:12 utc | 195

Correct.

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 6 2025 16:19 utc | 204

Andrew windsor thought he was none stick, now he knows better. A couple of weeks is all if took in the end..

Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 6 2025 16:25 utc | 205

But the hype around reminds me of the hype around one Barack Obama shortly before he became a bloody and bad president.

Not really surprising that the dems would make an effort at rebranding, just surprising it took them so long. Just when you thought the dems party was about to self-destruct fully. In that sense it is probably bad news rather than good news. No doubt he’ll be getting the next Nobel Peace Prize shortly. Immediately after that he will copy Trump’s Venezuelan “drugs” policy by asking the army to shoot “drug dealers” (i.e. ordinary homeless) on the streets of New York. Obama will be his model.

Take it as a sign that the dems are reworking their image, i.e. no change.

Posted by: BM | Nov 6 2025 17:00 utc | 206

Richard Wolff backs my point about the long history of socialist city governments by noting by his count that 75 US mayors openly declared themselves socialists. Both him and Hudson today point out the gross hysteria injected into this thread, which has now strayed far from its initial topic.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 6 2025 17:03 utc | 207

Refinnejenna | Nov 5 2025 22:29 utc | 106
*** Who would have thought that the two largest cities in the English-speaking world (London and New York City) now have Muslim mayors of Indian subcontinental ancestry?***
Like various other “coincidences” for years now, it is a situation suspiciously convenient — even just in terms of contrived image — for the transnational Overclass and advancement of its agenda.

Posted by: Cynic | Nov 6 2025 17:10 utc | 208

Cynic @ 211
Yes indeed , in a country of 300 million people none of the white people have the integrity, honesty, strength or intellegence to run a political group worth voting for ..

Shocking but true. All they have is a weakling nonce.

Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 6 2025 17:30 utc | 209

Mandami won because the vote against him was split.

One MSM breakdown, even if rough, no matter. Results in %.

Mandami, Dem, 50.4, Cuomo Ind. 40.6, Curtis Sliwa Repub, 7.1, and even Eric Adams Ind .4 contributed to the result. (See more at link.)

https://edition.cnn.com/election/2025/results/mayor-results

The result was an expected outcome by those in the know, and anyone who bothered to look at the candidates, their popularity, etc. (How was this organised?…) Even so it was ‘close’, therefore the jubilation at his ‘win’ – so special !!

Imho he is a fakelorum pol with no creds and a future of profiteering, this happens all the time.

Posted by: Noirette | Nov 6 2025 17:31 utc | 210

Mark2 | Nov 6 2025 12:30 utc | 174*** The brit public finaliy had enough of pedo prince, and the media backed them, within 2 weeks of coverage he was gone. And rightly so. ***

Andy pandy was indeed a naughty (and greedy) boy …. but seems to have been very handy as a media diversion from the antics of his older Savile / Mountbatten trained brother, Jug-ears the Tampon Turd.
Strange how while one of them gets (rightly) demonised, the other gets his peculiarities memory-holed.
Especially since the far more rich, powerful and influential one is the one is still operational.
Like just the other week meeting the CIA annointee in the Vatican.
While not noticing Gaza ……

Posted by: Cynic | Nov 6 2025 17:32 utc | 211

Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 6 2025 16:25 utc | 208

Andrew windsor thought he was none stick, now he knows better.

Yeah, now Andrew has to move into some less palatial crib, always in the lap of luxury, with the best healthcare money can buy. He remains in the line of succession, pays no bills, and no doubt still has his other proclivities attended to as well.

Poor sod.

Posted by: john | Nov 6 2025 17:33 utc | 212

Cynic @ 214.

Ha ha you win this exchainge, i have no reply. But read the following…..

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,john @ 215
i john hope your keeping well, you dont comment often but i always enjoy your contribution, an independent thinker, your own man , amiright ?.

Anyways yes i agree indeed, in the good old days it would be off with his head, or a noose and then the gibbit . I n public.

Nostalger is’nt what it used to be.

Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 6 2025 17:52 utc | 213

“The White race is the cancer of human history.”
Susan Sontag, writer, filmmaker, teacher & political activist

Mamdani Announces All-Female Transition Team
“We will build a city hall that stands steadfast alongside Jewish New Yorkers and does not waver in the fight against the scourge of antisemitism, where the more than 1 million Muslims know that they belong, not just in the five boroughs of this city, but in the halls of power”

Linda Kahn
Khan was born on March 3, 1989, in London, to a British family of Pakistani origin.

Torres-Springer was born in Los Angeles, California, to parents from the Philippines: her father Manny from Pampanga and her mother Elsa from Batangas. She lived in the Philippines from ages nine to fourteen after her mother died. The family often struggled financially, relying on Section 8 vouchers and food stamps throughout her childhood.
Grace Bonilla is of Ecuadorian heritage. She is the daughter of Ecuadorian immigrants and was born and raised in Queens, New York.
Hartzog was born in Brownsville, Brooklyn, and grew up on Long Island. Her mother’s family is from Guyana, and her father moved to Brooklyn from South Carolina.

Elana Leopold is known for her expertise in strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and policy advocacy that drives meaningful change. She is a native New Yorker and currently lives in Brooklyn with her wife and dog, Rigatoni. Her surname, “Leopold” is commonly associated with Ashkenazi Jewish origins.

Posted by: normal wisdom | Nov 6 2025 18:33 utc | 214

Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 6 2025 11:41 utc | 172 The implication that it’s the Democrats who are the CIA and the Republicans aren’t, is nothing but partisan hack BS, Trumpery. Also, for the record, both parties are dominated by the ruling class, and for that matter so is the CIA. The theory there is no ruling class only a Deep State driven by morally depraved PMC woke monsters is stupid or vicious or an unwholesome combination of vicious and stupid. (The Venn diagram looks like a rugby ball?)

Posted by: BM | Nov 6 2025 12:38 utc | 176 Trump is currently murdering so-called drug dealers by the dozen as you blather. But you manage to re-write history so that it’s Obama who did that (not even Duterte for God’s sake, though obviously he so Trumpian that’s unacceptable to point out.) And you have preemptively convicted Mamdani of what’s he going to do? I know Trump cultism demands extraordinary flexibility in denying reality and giving up coherence and shame, but your prediction about Mamdani is an imposition on the reader, not an argument.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Nov 6 2025 18:37 utc | 215

Nota Bene:

NYC residents under age 30 accounted for 75% of the 1,036,051 votes cast for Mamdani.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Nov 6 2025 18:39 utc | 216

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Posted by: Frank | Nov 6 2025 15:57 utc | 204
Spot on bro, spot on….

Posted by: Notlurking | Nov 6 2025 19:12 utc | 217

The cynical take on Mahmdani. So refreshing, it;’s not like all the other leftists also acting too cool to be enthused at all. Well, take your cadres of vanguardists and seize the means of productiion. I might join yoiu. Or maybe you have nothing. Perhaps have a hint of charitability for someone who is working withint the system, ostensibly for the same goals. If you have proof that they aren’t in aligntment, product it. Or shut up. This “I’m too cool believe” stuff is so juvenile.,

Posted by: Michael L | Nov 6 2025 22:00 utc | 218

Trump and Zohran and the VA woman (votes from NOVA (civil service immigrants), Richmond and Cville did it, not most of VA) won for the same exact reason 364 days apart. They were not Tammany Hall countrywide corruption/kamala and trump, respectively. It was a protest vote that swung the tide to a landslide. MAGA is gonna lose at least one chamber next year (probs the house) and northern KY. You can’t keep just throwing money at the campaigns, people are sick of the establishment and zog is gonna lost big-time to Massie.

Posted by: Sal | Nov 6 2025 22:02 utc | 219

Richard Wolff backs my point about the long history of socialist city governments by noting by his count that 75 US mayors openly declared themselves socialists. Both him and Hudson today point out the gross hysteria injected into this thread, which has now strayed far from its initial topic.
Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 6 2025 17:03 utc | 210

Richard Wolff is the last person anyone should rely on in any discussion on socialism as he’s a liberal who abuses the term in service of the Democratic party. He wants Mamdani to be elected because Mamdani is a capitalist-compatible progressive liberal candidate who will not only blunt and sap away the tiniest spark of revolutionary energy that the American working class might have, but also mislead them on what socialism truly means.

Wolff conflates the welfare capitalism of Western Europe with the socialist economies of the USSR and China. Torkil Lauesen, a bona fide communist who has actually robbed a post office to fund anti-imperialist movements in the Global South (DKK 9 million was sent to the PFLP, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine), clearly distinguishes between the welfare capitalism of Western Europe that depends on exploitation of the Global South to function and the socialism of China that has no such dependence in his peer-reviewed article Scandinavian Imperialism.

In the linked video, Wolff at around minute 21 starts his little obfuscation act by saying something along the line of “socialism can mean very different thing to different people” to misleadingly portray Mamdani as a socialist. This kind of intellectual sloppiness, which is deliberate, is what allowed Elon Musk to start claiming that the Nazis were socialists because National Socialism was in their party’s name.

Even worse, near the end of the video around minute 54 (where Wolff reveals his support for the Zionists AOC and Bernie), Wolff presents two false choices for America to manage its relationship with China and calls for socialists to support the second of the two false choices: “divide the world up in such a way that both of you can find opportunities to grow and develop.” Wolff’s understanding of multipolarity is the same as Marco Rubio’s, where the world is divided into spheres of influence and America gets to do whatever the hell it wants in the Western Hemisphere including annexing Greenland and regime-changing Venezuela. Wolff’s plan doesn’t resolve the contradiction between the imperial core and the Global South. It merely allows America to recuperate for now so that it can renew its terror campaign against the Global South anew in the future. The only way that the contradiction can be resolved is with the dismantling of the American state, and that is the position that is already supported by all socialists (not liberals pretending to be socialists).

Death to America
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Nov 6 2025 22:57 utc | 220

An actual socialist’s thoughts on Mamdani’s victory: Tell Lies, Claim Easy Victories

The most common excuse that I saw from people who normally reject electoralism was that we should “let people celebrate” Mamdani’s victory purely because it made zionists angry. Okay, everything makes zionists angry. In that sense, we should support Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Azealia Banks. This is an unserious and desperately reactive political barometer.
Mamdani’s supporters hit it on the nose when they described their strategy as “Socialism with American characteristics”: renters’ protections and free public buses, slightly improving life for those of us in the core by sucking off the sweat, blood, and corpses of the global majority. A mayor who, above all, makes us feel good.

Death to America
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Nov 6 2025 23:06 utc | 221

I bought the Obama master manipulator spin. Boy, was I excited. Then very angry when the truth of who he really was became blindingly apparent.
I swore I would never listen to spin and vote accordingly ever again.
Then came Bernie and I bought the spin again. Oops I was even angrier that time
With Zohran? A congrats and that’s all I could manage
Because in the US political system, NO DEM SOCIALIST WOULD EVER WIN.
We’ll see. But this time I’m watching actions, not words.

Posted by: Kay | Nov 7 2025 5:42 utc | 222

OMG, Obama, Sanders, Demo(n)crats!!!! You fucking fake revolutionaries can feel great, doing nothing but bitching, secure in your moral certainty. What’s great about echo chambers is that they’re available for everyone. You were right all along, and all that you had to do was nothing. Deflect, defuse, deny progress.

Posted by: Michael L | Nov 7 2025 6:23 utc | 223

Looks like the billionaires that talked about leaving NY and all that are changing their mind. I am hoping that Mamdani can make small improvement to the quality of life of working class people in NY. Anything more than that would be gravy.

I’d prefer him to focus on being Mayor of NY and focus on local issues and eventually getting reelected rather than trying to move onto national politics. We need people that can work effectively closer to the people, dealing the with contradictions and difficulties of helping lots of people, knowing that other groups will not be helped or even hurt a bit. Progress is not easy and it is not cheap. Two terms of being able to steadily improve NY over time would be a very big contribution to the US.

Posted by: Woke American | Nov 7 2025 6:41 utc | 224

Frank, 204. Here is a reasonable statement after an exceptional amount of high-decibel utterances on this Mamdani thread. — “The candidate’s stated opposition to the holocaust in occupied Palestine is a good reason for casting a vote for him.”But the financial system, late stage monopoly capitalism, is the foundation that supports and promotes the holocaust as well as other conflicts.”The Democrat and Republican parties are the wings of the same bird that is subordinate to this financial system, so it will be difficult for the candidate to implement his stated campaign goals because these capitalists will stop at nothing.”

“Why Israel really fears Zoran Mamdani” discussion on Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah tells of his first meeting with Mamdani when Abunimah went to Boudin College to interview Mamdani, then Co-chairman of Students for Justice in Palestine. Mamdani, unlike Obama, AOC or Sanders, has a historical commitment to the Palestine cause; it appears he was not just using it as a political ploy like the others. The winning moment for him for many New Yorkers repulsed by Israhell’s US-supported genocide was when Mamdani refused to be baited in the mayoral candidate interview, refused to play along with suppliance to Israhell, the tradition of NYC politicians, when asked “what foreign country would you chose to visit first?” Mamdani said “I would stay in NYC to work for New Yorkers.” In the insane colonial world of 2025, this statement was revolutionary.

I’m not saying everything he’s said since is what I would have liked to hear.

In order to avoid a Jeremy Corbin-style takedown in-store by the Zionists, Mamdani must give nothing to them, know to expect and recognize the ceaseless barrage of attempted set-ups for the anti-Semitism charge. This was Norman Finklestein’s advice; Abunimah’s cautioned that nothing Mamdano could ever do would appease that faction, so don’t try.
IMO, Anti- Zionism is the winning card for a NYC politician to hold; the liberal Dem ‘No Kings’ stuff might come into play if there is an invasion into NYC. Although anti-Trumpism will be the liberal MSM focus. It’s a bottomless pit considering the big money interests Mamdani will have to contend with if he wants to get something done in the interests of the working poor and other poor of NYC. But don’t sideline the issue of Anti- imperialism in the fight against big money.

I think he should not get too close with the Democratic Party. Need he hug AOC & Bernie? A snake pit. I don’t know about keeping on Khan. Could be at this point have got rid of her?
Across the US right now there’s a window for electoral politics imo. What do I know (maybe I’m blind), but it may be a learning experience for a lot of people in some instances. That doesn’t assume we’re gonna learn fast enough. The odds are stacked against; what to do but put one foot in front of the other …?

Posted by: Lavieja | Nov 7 2025 11:52 utc | 225

the winning card for a NYC politician to hold

Posted by: Lavieja | Nov 7 2025 11:52 utc | 231

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If Mamdani wields property taxes like Trump has tariffs he’ll do just fine.

Posted by: too scents | Nov 7 2025 12:04 utc | 226

Lavieja@231………standing bet, winner takes The Bridge, if New York Mamdani has not already made the trip (just waiting for pic to surface) of him convulsing at The Wall, yes, that wall, then it only a matter of time, always on the Squatters dime, before he is genuflecting at their feet in Occupied Palestine. Likely being fitted for a cap already……..

Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Nov 7 2025 14:26 utc | 227

Pepe has found this informative post.

https://t.me/rocknrollgeopolitics/16946

is that true? Color revolutions pros now in control of NYC? Of course Soros is rejoicing.

Posted by: Richard L | Nov 7 2025 18:55 utc | 228

He will be a Soros “leftist”: All focus on degenerate burguese sexual social matters, while making sure the bankers are free

Posted by: Marcos E | Nov 8 2025 5:30 utc | 229

‘Michael Tracey @mtracey –
Who wants to bet that within six months Zohran will be considered centrist/establishment by much of the Left’
There is no Left in the USA, only Right and Farther Right.

Posted by: lester | Nov 9 2025 1:24 utc | 230

I hope Mamdani is not just an accident. I hope he is the start of a social democrat “New Deal” revival. We already have a party for Big Business Butt Kissers, for playground bullies grown older, for “if you’re White, you’re alright” sorts, the Republicans. I don’t want Dems to be imitation Republicans. GOP lite, yuk!
Actually, I wish we had a parliament with a dozen parties. We’d still be f*cked up, but in a more nuanced way.

Posted by: lester | Nov 9 2025 1:30 utc | 231

230 Lavieja. A word left out — “the winning card for an oppositional NYC mayor, Mamdani.”

If one can stomach it, listen to Rabbi Elie Weinstock of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue of upper west side NYC (reform, liberal upper middle class) to find out what the Zionists are getting up to already. Mamdani has been plotting against the Jews since his college days when he led the terror-proselytizing Students for Justice in Palestine, raves Weinstock.

Posted by: Lavieja | Nov 9 2025 5:24 utc | 232

Posted by: Lavieja | Nov 9 2025 8:03 utc | 233

Jyotisman and Norman Finkelstein agree on India Global Left, “Norman Finkelstein Warns Zohran Mamdani: Confront the NYPD –Or Get Eaten Alive”, Mamdani’s reappointment of Jessica Tish (one of wealthiest families in NYC) as police commissioner very problematic. For one thing, Mamdani says he will arrest Netanyanu if he comes to NYC, but one in a million Tish NYPD would do so. Doesn’t Mamdani recognize that? Finkelstein says #1 issue facing Mamdani is, “it’s a class war.” #2 issue is support for Jewish supremacy for Israel in NYC. Also, stop having secret meetings with the other side. Completely wrong to not consult your constituency, certainly. Should publish transcripts of those secret meetings.
If he is serious, it will be very tough moving forward, especially having capitulated to appointing Tish, and Mamdani needs to put forth the model of constructing ‘support the revolution’ committees (involve a base going forward), but he appears brave and honestly concerned for the have-nots who make up 80% of NYC’S population (Finklestein’s statistic). OT
Finklestein suggests people read “Revolution’ and Counter-Revolution in Chile’s Marxist Experiment” by Paul M. Sweezy.

Posted by: Lavieja | Nov 9 2025 8:24 utc | 234

238 correction. Not Weinstock, but Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch

Posted by: Lavieja | Nov 9 2025 10:10 utc | 235

Free public transport a socialist does not make…..
Posted by: Patroklos | Nov 5 2025 18:03 utc |
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Sticking to actual influence of transport and leaving aside whether free public transport can lead to world socialism, free buses do “make” a lot more people ride the buses.
In my community the transport authority got a state grant to pay for free ridership for a year.
It is really great and has helped workers, students, and tourists.
Decades ago it was shown—in Seattle, I believe—that the many gains of free riding were far greater than the loss of revenue from tickets, which doesn’t cover the costs of running the system anyway.
The ease of just jumping on a free bus or train may lead to a reduction in car use. It certainly is worth trying in NYC for a year and doing some metrics to see how it goes, how people like it, whether ridership increases, whether car use decreases, whether increased ridership justifies purchase of new electric buses, dedicated bus lanes, etc.
I am definitely not a renewables fan, but municipal public transport seems to me to be one of the obvious uses for EVs.

Posted by: Jane | Nov 9 2025 11:50 utc | 236

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