Democrat Bill de Blasio elected mayor of NYC
7 Nov 2013 12:52 AM GMT
Bill de Blasio was elected New York City’s first Democratic mayor in two decades, posting a potentially record landslide victory while running on an unabashedly liberal, tax-the-rich platform that contrasted sharply with Michael Bloomberg’s record during 12 years in office.
With 99 percent of precincts reporting, De Blasio, the city’s public advocate, had 73 percent of the vote on Tuesday compared with 24 percent for Republican Joe Lhota, former chief of the metropolitan area’s transit agency.
De Blasio, 52, will take office on 1 January as the 109th mayor of the nation’s largest city. He ran as the anti-Bloomberg, railing against economic inequality and portraying New York as a ‘tale of two cities’: one rich, the other working class.
With 99 percent of precincts reporting, De Blasio, the city’s public advocate, had 73 percent of the vote on Tuesday compared with 24 percent for Republican Joe Lhota, former chief of the metropolitan area’s transit agency.
De Blasio, 52, will take office on 1 January as the 109th mayor of the nation’s largest city. He ran as the anti-Bloomberg, railing against economic inequality and portraying New York as a ‘tale of two cities’: one rich, the other working class.
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