Bill de Blasio is celebrating a landslide victory as he prepares to be sworn in as the city’s first Democratic mayor in two decades.
With 100 percent of precincts reporting, de Blasio crushed Republican rival Joe Lhota 73 percent to 24 percent.
It’s the largest margin of victory for a non-incumbent mayor in modern city history.
The last Democrat to win the mayor’s race was David Dinkins in 1989.
With no major party opposition, Democrat Letitia James easily won the race to succeed de Blasio as the city’s next public advocate.
James beat her next closest opponent, Conservative Robert Maresca, by 72 percentage points.
She is the first African-American woman elected to citywide office.
James said she plans to hold a series of town hall meetings across the city so New Yorkers can tell her what they expect from her office.
“I will raise my voice loudly as you know I can do. I will be the fierce champion of working class New Yorkers that you have elected me to be,” she said.
In the race for City Comptroller, Democrat Scott Stringer trounced Republican John Burnett 81 percent to 17 percent.
That means the city’s top three citywide positions will be controlled by Democrats for the first time since 1993.
Democrat Ken Thompson was elected Brooklyn’s new district attorney.
He beat incumbent Charles Hynes, who was running for re-election as a Republican after losing the primary to Thompson.
In his victory speech, Thompson called for an end to gun violence and vowed to work on getting illegal guns off the streets.
But he also said changes must be made to the NYPD’s policy of stop-and-frisk.
“We must make sure that the stop-and-frisk in Brooklyn going forward must be based on reasonable suspicion. And reasonable suspicion can’t mean a black man or a Latino man, or because you live in a high crime neighborhood,” Thompson said.
Preliminary numbers show only a little more than a million people cast ballots in the city yesterday.
That would be the city’s lowest turnout since women won the right to vote in 1917.
De Blasio, meantime, is set to meet today with the man he will be replacing.
NY1′s cameras caught the mayor-elect leaving his Park Slope home this morning.
He was on his way to City Hall for a meeting with Mayor Bloomberg.
De Blasio celebrated his election as the city’s 109th mayor with a victory party last night in Brooklyn.
He is the first Brooklynite to be elected mayor since Abe Beame in 1973.
In his victory speech, de Blasio told New Yorkers who didn’t vote for him that he will work hard to gain their trust.
He also called the battle against inequality “the defining challenge of our times.”
“Inequality is not something that only threatens those who are struggling. The stakes are so high for every New Yorker. And making sure no son or daughter of New York falls behind defines the very promise of our city,” De Blasio said.
Joe Lhota conceded the race shortly after the polls closed at 9 p.m.
In his concession speech, he thanked his supporters and urged them to support de Blasio.
Afterward, Lhota said he was proud of the race he ran.
“It was a great campaign, I thought it was run on substance, and you won’t have me to kick around for awhile,” he said.
Most of the local races went as expected.
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. cruised to easy re-election.
In the other borough president races — Democrats Eric Adams in Brooklyn, Gale Brewer in Manhattan, Melinda Katz in Queens and Republican James Oddo on Staten Island all won handily.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Junior also won his re-election bid.
Up to seven Las Vegas-style casinos also got the okay from voters statewide yesterday.
But it wasn’t a runaway with 57 percent of voters approving the referendum, while 43 percent were against it.
It’s a major win for Governor Andrew Cuomo who pushed casinos as a way to keep money in the state and help the upstate economy.
The first four casinos would be built upstate but developers will decide where.
The city could get a casino down the road.
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