By Bo Erickson (Reuters) -Democrats won races for governor in New Jersey and Virginia on Tuesday, and a self-described democratic socialist was elected New York City mayor, while Californians approved a redistricting initiative designed to help Democrats in midterm elections.

Mamdani will be New York City’s first Muslim mayor and the first South Asian to hold the office.

Millions of people are voting in US state and local elections in the first major electoral test of President Trump's second term

Zohran Mamdani wins NYC mayor’s race, capping a stunning ascent

For Sliwa — the creator of the Guardian Angels crime patrol group and a longtime New York tabloid fixture — a win would put a Republican in charge of the nation’s largest city at a time when many New ...