New Delhi, Nov. 5 -- A democrat and young leftist, Zohran Mamdani, won New York City's mayoral election on Tuesday (local time), scripting history to become the first Indian-origin Muslim mayor of the city.

Mamdani will be sworn in on January 1. He will be the youngest person to hold the office in a century and will replace first-term Mayor Eric Adams, who dropped out of the race amid low poll numbers and a series of scandals.

Mamdani, who identifies as a democratic socialist, received 50.3 percent of the votes, leading by more than 8 points against former Governor Andrew Cuomo, running on an independent line after his loss to Mamdani in the primary, with 96 percent of the vote counted. Anti-crime crusader and Republican Curtis Sliwa go...