In a test of the appeal of MAGA politics in New York City, voters in northeastern Queens will choose between Vickie Paladino, the Republican incumbent who is an avid Trump supporter, and Benjamin Chou, a firefighter and Democrat.

The result makes Mamdani the first mayoral candidate in New York to surpass the one-million-vote mark since 1969.

Zohran Mamdani has won the New York City mayoral race, CBS News projects. Here's a look at the NYC mayoral election results, and others, in real time.

The election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor has stoked speculation that President Trump might move to send forces into the city.

Zohran Mamdani has just been elected mayor of New York City and is already challenging President Donald Trump.

When asked why he shared the posts, Dan Dow called Zohran Mamdani “an un-American socialist who wants to trample on the values and freedoms that millions of Americans have fought and died for.”

The mayor’s race in New York will gauge voters’ desire for a left-wing shift, and Democrats running for governor in New Jersey and Virginia again made fighting the president central to their bids.

New York’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani was the Democratic party’s candidate in the election, but he proudly describes himself as a democratic socialist alongside left-wing lawmakers like Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Rep.