Bill de Blasio is elected mayor of New York
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Bill de Blasio was elected New York City's first Democratic mayor in two decades Tuesday, running on an unabashedly liberal, tax-the-rich platform that contrasted sharply with billionaire Michael Bloomberg's record during 12 years in office.
With 13 percent of precincts reporting, De Blasio, the city's public advocate, had 73 percent of the vote compared with 25 percent for Republican Joe Lhota, former chief of the metropolitan area's transit agency.
In his victory speech, delivered in both English and Spanish, De Blasio declared that "our city shall leave no New Yorker behind." (AP)
