Democrats flipped key local seats on a night that their party won a wave of seats nationwide — with Democrat Cait Conley winning a key Congressional seat and Nyack Mayor Joe Rand headed to the State Senate.
Conley was elected to Congress, flipping the battleground NY-17 seat from incumbent Rep. Mike Lawler, a Republican. Results were slow to come in due to problems with Westchester voting machines.
Nyack Mayor Joe Rand, a Democrat, was elected to the NY Senate 38th district, beating Republican incumbent Sen. Bill Weber. Incumbent Democrat Pete Harckham was leading in the 40th district as of midnight, which includes Stony Point as well as parts of Putnam and Westchester Counties.
Rockland incumbents won reelection to the State Assembly, including Dem. Patrick Carroll (96th), and Rep. Karl Brabanec (98th), and Dem. Chris Eachus (99th). Dem. Aron Wieder (97th) was leading as of midnight.
In local races, with most votes in, Democrats gained seats in Clarkstown, with Eugene Bondar for Town Supervisor over incumbent Town Supervisor George Hoehmann, and Dem. Gregory Sheehan beating incumbent Lauren Marie Wohl for Town Clerk. Democrats also appeared to sweep the Clarkstown Town Board, flipping all four seats from Republican to Democratic control. Joseph Damiani won in Ward 1, Sylke Jackon in Ward 2, Susan Bloom in Ward 3, and Gina DeFelice in Ward 4. Not all votes were reported as of this update at 12:06 a.m. on Wednesday, we’ll continue updating.