Election 2025: Winners make history across the country

Tuesday's elections proved to beryllium not lone big wins for Democratic candidates successful galore races, but besides history-making successful respective instances.

Here is simply a look astatine the past made during the 2025 elections.

New York City elects its 1st Muslim and South Asian mayor

Democratic campaigner for New York City politician Zohran Mamdani getsures connected signifier aft winning the 2025 New York City Mayoral race, astatine an predetermination nighttime rally successful the Brooklyn, New York, November 4, 2025.

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Democratic campaigner Zohran Mamdani's projected victory successful the New York City mayoral predetermination volition marque him the city's first Muslim and South Asian mayor.

Born successful Uganda, Mamdani is simply a Muslim of Indian descent who has lived successful the United States since helium was 7 years old, becoming a naturalized national successful 2018.

At property 34, Mamdani is acceptable to go the youngest New York City politician successful much than a century.

The predetermination that propelled him to triumph besides made history, with 2 cardinal voters turning retired Tuesday successful New York City, the archetypal clip a mayoral predetermination crossed the 2 cardinal elector threshold since 1969.

Virginia elects its 1st pistillate governor

Democrat Abigail Spanberger speaks connected signifier aft she was declared the victor of the Virginia governor's contention during an predetermination nighttime ticker party, Nov. 4, 2025, successful Richmond, Va.

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Democrat Abigail Spanberger's win Tuesday implicit Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears makes her the archetypal pistillate to beryllium elected politician of Virginia.

Spanberger, 46, is simply a erstwhile U.S. typical and a erstwhile CIA quality officer.

She is besides a parent of 3 and reflected successful her triumph code connected predetermination nighttime astir the infinitesimal her hubby told their 3 daughters that their ma would beryllium the adjacent politician of Virginia.

"And I tin warrant those words person ne'er been spoken successful Virginia ever before," she said. "It's a large woody that the girls and and young women I person met on the run way present cognize with certainty that they tin execute anything."

Virginia besides elected authorities Sen. Ghazala Hashmi arsenic lieutenant politician connected Tuesday, making her the archetypal Muslim pistillate to triumph statewide bureau successful immoderate U.S. state, according to her campaign.

Women acceptable grounds for astir governors

Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat who won the New Jersey gubernatorial election, made past by some winning governors' elections Tuesday.

When the 2 women instrumentality bureau successful January, determination volition beryllium 14 women serving simultaneously arsenic governor, a grounds high, according to the Center for American Women and Politics astatine Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

New Jersey elects aforesaid politician from aforesaid party

Rep. Mikie Sherrill, Democratic gubernatorial campaigner for New Jersey reacts connected signifier astatine her predetermination nighttime rally successful East Brunswick, New Jersey, November 4, 2025.

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Sherrill's triumph Tuesday marks the first time successful implicit 60 years that New Jersey has elected a politician from the aforesaid enactment 3 cycles successful a row.

It is besides lone the 2nd clip a pistillate has been elected politician of New Jersey, pursuing successful the footsteps of Christine Todd Whitman, who served from 1994 to 2001.