Bill de Blasio has become the first Democrat in almost 25 years to be elected Mayor of New York City, crushing Joe Lhota, his Republican opponent, by more than 50 percentage points, according to exit polls.
Mr de Blasio, a Left-wing city official who has called for an increase in taxes on Manhattan's millionaires, beat Mr Lhota, a former city transport boss, by 79-19 among women and 69-27 among men, according to the polling, by Edison Research for The New York Times.
"The bottom line is we have to get to work immediately," he said earlier on Tuesday, while casting his vote in his home neighbourhood of Park Slope, Brooklyn.
According to the surveys, which saw Mr de Blasio declared the 109th mayor immediately after polls closed at 9pm, he triumphed among every age group, ethnicity, income bracket and education level and even secured the votes of 43 per cent of New Yorkers defining themselves as conservatives.
The decisive victory was hailed by Mr de Blasio's supporters as proof that New Yorkers – struggling like many Americans to fully recover from recession – yearned for a radical departure from Michael Bloomberg's 12-year tenure as the billionaire pro-business chief executive of America's biggest city. Read on and comment » | Jon Swaine, in New York | Wednesday, November 06, 2013
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I guess that New Yorkers got tired of tyrants. Enough already! – © Mark
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