Democrat Zohran Mamdani made history in New York City on Tuesday, elected as the city's first Muslim mayor, defeating former New York governor Andrew Cuomo.

More than two million people voted in New York City's mayoral election, according to the city's Board of Elections, the strongest turnout since 1969.

The campaign laid bare the Democratic Party's generational and ideological divides as it seeks to rehabilitate its damaged brand.

Mamdani managed to energize progressives to score a surprise victory in the Democratic primary over Cuomo — the once-powerful former governor — with a campaign that focused on lowering the cost of living in one of the country's most expensive cities.

Zohran Mamdani and his wife Rama Sawaf Duwaji voted together earlier on Tuesday. (Olga Fedorova/The Associ

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