NEW YORK (WABC) -- Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor of New York City, defeating former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa.
With the victory, the democratic socialist will etch his place in history as the city's first Muslim mayor, the first of South Asian heritage and the first born in Africa. He will also become the city's youngest mayor in more than a century when he takes office on Jan. 1.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill has been elected governor of New Jersey.
The four-term member of Congress centered her campaign on her biography as a Navy helicopter pilot and former prosecutor who would stand up to President Donald Trump.
She will be New Jersey's second female governor.
Ciattarelli lost his second straight governor's election after coming within a few points of defeating Gov. Phil Murphy four years ago.
As of 6:00 p.m., more than 1.7 million New Yorkers have voted in the mayoral race, according to the Board of Elections.
That includes early voters and mail-in ballots.
The polls close at 9:00 p.m.
The turnout is the highest since 1993.
Highest Mayoral Turnout Elections
1965 - 2,652,451
1993 - 1,898,437
2001 - 1,520,443
1997 - 1,409,347
2005 - 1,315,360
Mayor Eric Adams voted Tuesday evening and his office says he voted for Andrew Cuomo.
Adams said he had no problems finding Cuomo's name on the ballot.
"The only message I can give to New Yorkers as I go to the next leg of my journey: I'm leaving you a good city," don't mess it up, he said, using an expletive.
For many years, New York voters have found candidates listed twice, three times or even more on their ballots when they go to the polling booth.
It isn't an error - it's a practice known as fusion voting that allows candidates to appear under multiple political parties if they are nominated by multiple parties.
But such intentional duplications on the New York City ballot this year, along with other layout choices, have some outside observers around the country wondering whether they are seeing evidence of rigged voting, including billionaire X owner Elon Musk.
"The New York City ballot form is a scam!" he wrote in an X post. "No ID is required. Other mayoral candidates appear twice. Cuomo's name is last in bottom right."
But there is nothing amiss about the ballots, which are in keeping with New York's voting laws.
Fusion voting "occurs pretty frequently and it enables the Democratic candidate to get the votes of people who don't normally vote for Democrats and Republicans to get the vote of people who don't vote Republican etc.," said Richard Briffault, an expert on election administration and a professor at Columbia Law School.
Cuomo is in the eighth spot because he filed to run as an independent later in the process.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer dodged a question by a reporter who asked if he voted for Mamdani or Cuomo in the election.
"Look I voted, and I Iook forward to working with the next mayor to help New York City," he said before taking another question.
Schumer has not publicly supported Mamdani since he won the Democratic primary in June.
-ABC News' Lauren Peller
