{"id":1341,"date":"2025-12-07T10:02:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T10:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2025-12-07T10:02:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T10:02:01","slug":"cuomo-concedes-to-mamdani-in-democratic-primary-election-for-new-york-city-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=1341","title":{"rendered":"Cuomo concedes to Mamdani in Democratic primary election for New York City mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>From Wikinews, the free news source you can write!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\">\n<div class=\"mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"border: none; line-height: 1.2; padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:30px;padding-right:30px;text-align: center; background-color:#F6F6F6; border-top:1px solid #A7D7F9; border-bottom:1px solid #A7D7F9;\"><span style=\"font-size:4px;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#fff;font-size:14px;background:#dd0000;padding:1px 5px 2px 5px;margin-right:3px;-webkit-border-radius: 6px;-moz-border-radius: 6px;border-radius: 6px;\">Correction \u2014 June 27, 2025<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:8px;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nThis article claims Zohran Mamdani has previously been elected to a &#8220;New York City Assembly&#8221;; in fact, he serves in the <span class=\"interwiki-link-foreign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_State_Assembly\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:New York State Assembly\">New York State Assembly<\/a><\/span>, while the legislative body of New York City is the <span class=\"interwiki-link-foreign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City_Council\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:New York City Council\">City Council<\/a><\/span>.<br \/><span style=\"font-size:4px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong class=\"published\"><span id=\"publishDate\" class=\"value-title\" title=\"2025-06-26\"\/>Thursday, June 26, 2025<\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"Z3988\" style=\"display:none\" title=\"ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rfr_id=rfr_id=info:sid\/en.wikinews.org:User%3ADendodge&amp;rft_id=info:sid\/en.wikinews.org:Cuomo_concedes_to_Mamdani_in_Democratic_primary_election_for_New_York_City_mayor&amp;rft.atitle=Cuomo+concedes+to+Mamdani+in+Democratic+primary+election+for+New+York+City+mayor&amp;rft.jtitle=Wikinews&amp;rft.date=2025-06-26&amp;rft.aucorp=Wikinews+contributors&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.rights=CC-BY+2.5&amp;rft.identifier=%2F%2Fen.wikinews.org%2Fwiki%2FCuomo_concedes_to_Mamdani_in_Democratic_primary_election_for_New_York_City_mayor&amp;rft.artnum=-\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"infobox noprint desktop-only\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; 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margin: 1px; width: 146px\">\n<div class=\"thumbimage\"><span typeof=\"mw:File\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/File:Andrew_Cuomo_2019.jpg\" class=\"mw-file-description\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/fb\/Andrew_Cuomo_2019.jpg\/250px-Andrew_Cuomo_2019.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"144\" height=\"200\" class=\"mw-file-element\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/fb\/Andrew_Cuomo_2019.jpg\/330px-Andrew_Cuomo_2019.jpg 2x\" data-file-width=\"567\" data-file-height=\"789\"\/><\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: left; margin: 1px; width: 152px\">\n<div class=\"thumbimage\"><span typeof=\"mw:File\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/File:Zohran_Mamdani_05.25.25_(3x4_cropped).jpg\" class=\"mw-file-description\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/37\/Zohran_Mamdani_05.25.25_%283x4_cropped%29.jpg\/250px-Zohran_Mamdani_05.25.25_%283x4_cropped%29.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" class=\"mw-file-element\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/37\/Zohran_Mamdani_05.25.25_%283x4_cropped%29.jpg\/330px-Zohran_Mamdani_05.25.25_%283x4_cropped%29.jpg 2x\" data-file-width=\"4850\" data-file-height=\"6468\"\/><\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/Andrew_Cuomo\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Andrew Cuomo\">Andrew Cuomo<\/a> conceded to <span class=\"interwiki-link-foreign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Democratic_socialism\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:Democratic socialism\">democratic socialist<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"interwiki-link-foreign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zohran_Mamdani\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:Zohran Mamdani\">Zohran Mamdani<\/a><\/span> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"New York City\">New York City<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/Democratic_Party_(United_States)\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Democratic Party (United States)\">Democratic<\/a> primary election for mayor. Though Mamdani holds 44% of first-choice votes to Cuomo&#8217;s 36% of first-choice votes, the race has not been called yet as the election is expected to proceed into its <span class=\"interwiki-link-foreign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Instant-runoff_voting\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:Instant-runoff voting\">ranked-choice voting<\/a><\/span> system. As of late that evening, 90% of votes had been counted.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tonight is his night,&#8221; Cuomo said of his rival, who was endorsed by progressive figures <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/Bernie_Sanders\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Bernie Sanders\">Bernie Sanders<\/a> and <span class=\"interwiki-link-foreign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a><\/span>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Cuomo formerly had served as governor of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/New_York_State\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"New York State\">New York State<\/a> but resigned in 2021 amid a sexual harassment scandal. Mamdani was elected to the New York State Assembly in 2020 and has been reelected twice.\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 id=\"Sources\">Sources<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"desktop-only\">\n<table class=\"plainlinks noprint xambox xambox-type-notice\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"xambox-image\"> <span typeof=\"mw:File\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/File:Padlock-silver-medium.svg\" class=\"mw-file-description\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/fa\/Padlock-silver-medium.svg\/40px-Padlock-silver-medium.svg.png\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" class=\"mw-file-element\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/fa\/Padlock-silver-medium.svg\/60px-Padlock-silver-medium.svg.png 1.5x, https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/fa\/Padlock-silver-medium.svg\/120px-Padlock-silver-medium.svg.png 2x\" data-file-width=\"128\" data-file-height=\"128\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><b>This page is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/Wikinews:Archive_conventions\" title=\"Wikinews:Archive conventions\">archived<\/a>, and is no longer publicly editable.<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>Articles presented on Wikinews reflect the specific time at which they were written and published, and do not attempt to encompass events or knowledge which occur or become known after their publication.<\/p>\n<p>Got a correction? 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