New York: Zohair Mamdani, the insurgent Democratic Socialist, won New York City’s mayoral race, capitalising on the liberal metropolis’ antipathy to President Donald Trump and economic angst.

Preliminary results on Tuesday night showed Mamdani, the Democratic Party candidate, winning about 50 per cent of the 2 million votes cast, to 41 per cent polled by former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent after losing the party’s nomination to him in the June primaries.

Mamdani will be the city’s first mayor of Indian descent and the third non-White in the city’s history.

The inexperienced 34-year-old’s victory on a socialist platform poses a strategic conundrum for Democrats reeling from the defeat in last year’s presidential election.

His radicalism may play in a liberal city wh

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