The former New York governor's attempt at a political comeback fell short in the race to occupy Gracie Mansion.

Andrew Cuomo resigned from the New York governor’s office in 2021 after facing multiple allegations of sexual harassment, which he has denied. The state attorney general [in a report that year](

NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani responded to a question about how to pay for some of his policies, like making public transportation free, by citing a tax break Andrew Cuomo gave to Elon Musk as governor of New York.

In October, the Times of London inadvertently interviewed Bill DeBlasio, a Long Island wine importer, instead of former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, according to Semafor. And in 2015, two men named Ted Cruz and one man named Jeb Bush complained of being mistaken with the Texas senator and former Florida governor, Newsweek reported.

Mamdani, a democratic socialist in the state Assembly, will become New York City's first Muslim mayor and its first mayor of South Asian descent.

New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani boasted about having "toppled" the Cuomo "dynasty" in his victory speech on Tuesday.

New York voters were right to decide that they don't want a disgraced politician with a bad record, a worse attitude, and no vision.

When Andrew Cuomo appeared before a thinning crowd of supporters Tuesday night to concede the New York City mayoral race, the moment crystallized what months of polling had already suggested: that New York had moved on from the Cuomo era.