Bill de Blasio wsa elected mayor of New York City in a landslide victory. Bill de Blasio was voted New York City's 109th mayor after trouncing Republican rival Joe Lhota. Bill de Blasion is the first Democrat to be Mayor of New City in 20 years.

Bill de Blasio was a public advocate before running for Mayor. He won 73.7 percent of the vote. Republican candidate Joseph Lhota, the former MTA chairman, pulled in 24.3 percent of the vote. Bill de Blasio consistently led the polls about 40 points above Lhota.

According to The New York Times, election officials said voter turnout was low. Voters also had to contend with problems with voting machines. A lot of voters had to fill out paper ballots. Politics professor Patrick Egan said "It's an embarrassment to have the nation's largest city run elections in such a primitive and unreliable way. No matter where you stand on the political spectrum, you've got to agree that this is something that needs to be changed."

In his victor speech, de Blasio said "Progressive changes won't happen overnight, but they will happen. I will never stop fighting for the city I love, the city we all love so much, and I will never forget that as mayor, I work for you. We want our city to move forward and not backwards," Lhota said in his concession speech. "And I hope our mayor-elect understands that before it's too late."

Peter Luther, a Lhota campaign volunteer said "[Lhota]'s a gracious man who has a deep reservoir of experience in managing the city under very difficult circumstance," Luther said. "Thanks to Bill de Blasio and thanks to the voters of New York City, we are going to run the definitive social experiment in this city as to how specific policies impact the quality of life on the street."

Steinhardt educational theater professor Joe Salvatore said "I think the city was ready for a change after 12 years of Bloomberg and eight years of Giuliani. I think it was finished after the primaries. I think people were pretty decided about the fact that they wanted a Democratic mayor."

Mayor Michael Bloomberg did not endorse either candidate.

De Blasio will be inaugurated in January 2014.