Mamdani Wins NYC Mayor’s Race, Pledges Sweeping Socialist Reforms (Page 1 ) | November 10, 2025

Mamdani Wins New York City Mayor’s Race, Vows Sweeping Socialist Reforms

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani delivered a fiery and emotional victory speech late Tuesday night, pledging to pursue an ambitious progressive agenda and declaring his election a “historic mandate for change.”

At just 34, Mamdani will become New York City’s first socialist, first Muslim, and first mayor of South Asian descent. Speaking before a jubilant crowd at Brooklyn’s Paramount Theatre, he framed his win as a triumph for the city’s working class and immigrant communities, according to The New York Post.

The Uganda-born lawmaker dedicated his victory to all immigrant New Yorkers and denounced the Islamophobic attacks that had targeted his campaign.

“As Eugene Debs once said, I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity,” Mamdani proclaimed, quoting the early 20th-century socialist leader.

He also invoked Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, declaring,

“A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new.”

Raised on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Mamdani expressed deep gratitude to the working-class New Yorkers who fueled his campaign from the ground up.

“Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor, palms calloused from delivery bike handlebars, knuckles scarred with kitchen burns — these are not hands that have been allowed to hold power,” he said. “And yet, over the last 12 months, you have dared to reach for something greater. Tonight, against all odds, we have grasped it.”

Mamdani’s victory marks a turning point in New York City politics, signaling a new era of unapologetically left-wing leadership and setting the stage for sweeping policy battles over housing, policing, and economic reform.

Mamdani’s remarks blended gratitude with defiance as he took aim at President Trump and former Governor Andrew Cuomo, while vowing to deliver sweeping reforms.

“New York, tonight you have delivered a mandate for change — a mandate for a new kind of politics,” Mamdani declared. “We won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do.”

He pledged to advance his ambitious campaign agenda, which includes freezing rent for two million residents in regulated apartments, establishing free citywide bus service, providing universal child care, and creating a Department of Community Safety to respond to mental health emergencies in place of the NYPD.

He said his policies would provide relief to working-class and marginalized New Yorkers burdened by the city’s soaring cost of living.

“This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve, rather than a list of excuses for why we are too timid to achieve it,” he declared.

Mamdani went on to cast New York as a beacon amid national turmoil.

“In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light,” he said.

Framing his victory as a turning point in city politics, Mamdani proclaimed the end of an era long dominated by establishment power brokers.

“My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty,” he told the jubilant crowd. “I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life. But let tonight be the final time I utter his name, as we turn the page on a politics that abandons the many and answers only to the few.”

Quoting former Governor Mario Cuomo’s iconic words, Mamdani remarked, “You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose.”

“When we enter City Hall in 58 days, expectations will be high. We will meet them,” he vowed.

He concluded his speech with a pledge to deliver real, measurable change for everyday New Yorkers.

“New York, this power, it’s yours,” Mamdani declared. “This city belongs to you.”