New Yorkers are voting today to choose a new mayor.<br /><br /> The Democratic candidate Bill de Blasio is the overwhelming favourite in the polls.<br /><br /> The city’s public advocate is widely seen as one of the most liberal mayoral candidates.<br /><br /> His Republican challenger is Joe Lhota, a former senior official in the mayoral offices of Michael Bloomberg and his predecessor Rudolph Giuliani.<br /><br /> The winner will succeed three-term mayor Bloomberg, a Republican who turned independent in 2007.
