Socialist wins pile up after GOP’s brutal 2025 off-year election losses

By Fox News · Fox News

Republicans suffered a statistically bleak showing in the 2025 elections, but the losses went beyond the scoreboard. Across several jurisdictions – including the nation’s largest city – voters elevated socialist, socialist-aligned, and far-left Democrats to public office, underscoring an ideological shift that extended well past individual races. Here are the top five races won by such leaders preparing to take office in the New Year. New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, D-Astoria , will take the oath of office as-is-tradition as the ball drops to mark New Year’s Day in Times Square. Mamdani, who was born in Kampala, Uganda, follows British-born Abraham Beame as the only other immigrant New York City mayor since the Colonial era. Mamdani was endorsed by and associated with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and ran on a platform of several public freebies including transit, childcare as well as rent freezes and higher taxes on corporations. SOCIALIST WAVE REACHES WEST COAST AS LOS ANGELES MAYOR KAREN BASS GETS A MAMDANI-LIKE CHALLENGER The millennial defeated old-guard Democrat Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa in the November election. Mamdani garnered just over 50% of the vote, leading Cuomo supporters to blame Sliwa – the founder of the anti-crime Guardian Angels who accrued about 7% of the vote – for having a socialist installed in America’s financial capital. While much of the nation was transfixed by the New York City mayoral election, a similar dynamic was playing out on the opposite coast, in Seattle. Mayor Bruce Harrell, a Democrat viewed as more moderate than other local members of the party, won his 2021 election on a platform of combating homelessness, property crimes, racial violence and other issues. INCUMBENT SEATTLE MAYOR CONCEDES TO MAMDANI-STYLE 'SOCIALIST' WHO TAPPED HER PARENTS FOR MONEY WHILE RUNNING "Look at what Seattle has become," he said when running to replace Jenny Durkan, who had overseen the city when the anarchist…