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Hello and welcome to Newsout from the World Service of the BBC, live from London.

This is Owen Bennett Jones, and we're going to begin with the US state and local elections.

Well, it was a clean sweep for Democrats last night as the party clinched victory.

Zoe Randman, I'm donning, will be the next mayor of New York City.

Virginia is back in Democratic hands.

Democrat, Mikey Cheryl, will be elected governor of New Jersey.

Well, the first of those wins was probably the most eye-catching,

New York, a 34-year-old Muslim winning by 10 points, and then standing at a podium that read

a new era for New York City, he took to the stage to introduce his transition team.

Last night, we made history.

I'm so proud to be standing here today

as the mayor elected the greatest city in the world.

Over two million New Yorkers cast their ballots.

Whether they were the more than million who supported this campaign

or the others who supported someone else

or whether they felt too disappointed by the political process to participate at all. I will work

every day to honor the trust that I now hold. The poetry of campaigning may have come to a close

last night at nine, but the beautiful prose of governing

has only just begun. The hard work of improving New Yorkers' lives starts now.

So there are different ways of reading the election results in the US. Mamm Darni's win

suggests a radical message can work, but at the same time, moderate Democrats won in Virginia and New Jersey, suggesting the party could be more centrist and win.

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