Ugandan-born U.S politician Zohran Kwame Mamdani(34) has been elected as new mayor of New York City and he will assume office on 1 January 2026.
Yesterday, he defeated former governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, who is the Democratic Party member, who ran as independent candidate after he lost the Democratic primary to Mamdani.
The other candidate which was running for the position of being Mayor of New York City was a Republican nominee Curtis Silwa.
Mamdani's victory will upset the President of U.S, Donald Trump, who have been rallying behind Cuomo and Silwa because he made it clear that he will never support the Muslim to become the Mayor of New York City.
Even Democrats were ashamed to publicly endorse Mamdani as a New York City candidate but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bennie Sanders rallied behind him since he won party's primary election.
Mamdani is a member of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, has served since 2021 as a member of the New York State Assembly from the 36th district, representing the Queens neighbourhood of Astoria.
Mamdani's background
He was born on October 18,1991,in Kampala,Uganda and he is the only of child of academic Mahmood Mamdani and filmmaker Mira Nair.
Both his parents are of Indian descent; his father is a Gujarati Muslim was born in Bombay and grew up in Uganda, while his mother is a Punjabi Hindu was born in Rourkela and raised in Bhubaneswar.
He lived in Uganda until he was five, when his family relocated to Cape Town in South Africa because his father was a lecturer at University of Cape Town and attended school there at St. George's Grammar School.
His family left South Africa to U.S when he was seven and settled in New York City,and he was raised in Morningside Heights.