New york: In the result of the Islamophobia-based campaign, Zohran Mamdani became the second mayor of New York, after 1969, to receive more than one million votes.

Muslim candidate Zohran Mamdani has been elected as the Mayor of New York City. According to foreign news agencies, Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani won the New York City elections. The Muslim candidate defeated independent candidate Andrew Cuomo despite support from President Donald Trump.

The 34-year-old entered the race last year with next to no name recognition, little money and no institutional party support. That alone makes his victory over former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa remarkable.

But more than that, he represents the kind of politician that many in the Democratic Party's left have been seeking for years. He is young and charismatic, with his generation's natural comfort with social media.

His ethnicity reflects the diversity of the party's base. He hasn't shied away from a political fight and has proudly espoused left-wing causes - such as free childcare, expanded public transportation and government intervention in free market systems.

Mamdani has also shown a laser-like ability to focus on the kind of core economic issues that have been a priority for working-class voters who have drifted from the Democratic Party recently, but he hasn't disavowed the left's cultural principles. But critics have warned that such a candidate is unelectable in broad swathes of America - and Republicans have gleefully held the self-avowed democratic socialist up as the far-left face of the Democratic Party. Still, on Tuesday night in New York City, he was a winner.

Because of this, Mamdani's campaign for mayor has generated voluminous media attention, perhaps more than a municipal election, even one for America's largest city, deserves.

Meanwhile, in the U.S. states of Virginia and New Jersey, the Democrats achieved a historic victory. Democratic candidate Abigail Spanberger was elected as Virginia's first female governor, and Ghazala Siddiqui was elected as the lieutenant governor.

Abigail Spanberger of the Democratic Party became the governor of Virginia. President Trump had refused to support the Republican African-American candidate.