Progressive Democrat Bill de Blasio cruised to re-election for a second term as mayor of New York on Tuesday, US media reported, riding a wave of home-town distaste for Donald Trump in America's most populous city.

The 56-year-old former city councillor from Brooklyn easily defeated his Trump-voting Republican challenger, 36-year-old Nicole Malliotakis, the daughter of a Greek immigrant father and a Cuban mother, media said.

Source:AFP