New York City was all set to elect a new mayor on Tuesday as the mayoral race entered its final lap, with Indian-descent Zohran Kwame Mamdani emerging as the front-runner to take up the top political post in America’s biggest city.

Mamdani, 34, born in Uganda and raised in New York City, is a New York State Assembly member and democratic socialist running for Mayor. The Democratic nominee will face off against former New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is running as an independent candidate and the Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa on the ballots. Current New York City Mayor Eric Adams, whose administration has been plagued by scandals, dropped out of the mayoral race in September.