Washington: New Yorkers have emphatically elected Zohran Mamdani, a left-wing Muslim immigrant who vows to increase taxes on corporations and the top 1 per cent to fund popular services, as their next mayor.

The state assemblyman, 34, will become the second-youngest mayor of New York, the first Muslim and only the second democratic socialist to run the US’s largest and most important city, and the global centre of capitalism.

The Associated Press called the race for Mamdani at 9.34pm local time, less than an hour after polls closed.

Mamdani, the Democratic candidate, defeated former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who ran as an independent after losing the party primary to Mamdani in June.

With 80 per cent of the estimated vote counted, Mamdani was ahead with an absolute

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