Zohran Mamdani delivered a political earthquake Tuesday in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, riding progressive demands for change in a city facing an affordability crisis to the brink of a stunning victory.

New York City is using ranked choice voting in its Democratic mayoral primary election. Here's how it works: Rather than pick just one candidate, voters get to rank several in order of preference.

Just hours after polls closed for New York City’s primary mayoral election, following a day of record-breaking heat, the former governor Andrew Cuomo announced that he had conceded the race to Zohran Mamdani,