{"id":245116,"date":"2025-11-05T10:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T10:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/245116\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T10:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T10:26:08","slug":"election-day-live-updates-zohran-mamdani-wins-new-york-mayoral-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/245116\/","title":{"rendered":"Election day live updates: Zohran Mamdani wins New York mayoral race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who is Zohran Mamdani?published at 06:52 GMT<\/p>\n<p>06:52 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/a4796371-6167-40e3-834e-8ac341bfc5d6.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Sakshi Venkatraman<br \/>Reporting from New York<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party candidate for Mayor of New York City, speaks into a microphone at a campaign rally\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/bbfe379f-7645-4727-a5dc-3bb74eb95710.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thirty-four-year-old state assemblyman and self-identified democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is the new mayor of New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Largely unknown before winning the the Democratic primary over the summer, supporters hail him as representing a new wave of progressive politics, whereas others, like Trump, lambast him as a &#8220;communist&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Born in Kampala, Uganda, Mamdani moved to New York with his family aged seven. He attended the Bronx High School of Science and later earned a degree in Africana Studies from Bowdoin College, where he co-founded the campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mamdani will be the city&#8217;s first Muslim and South Asian mayor, and has referenced his identity as a way to build support across the diverse city, posting campaign videos of himself speaking Urdu and Spanish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He promises affordable housing, free public buses, rent freezes and universal childcare for children under five.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a city where one in four of its people are living in poverty, a city where 500,000 kids go to sleep hungry every night,&#8221; he told the BBC at a recent event. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And, ultimately, it&#8217;s a city that is in danger of losing that which it makes it so special.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who is Zohran Mamdani?published at 06:52 GMT 06:52 GMT Sakshi VenkatramanReporting from New York Image source, Reuters Thirty-four-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-245116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}