THE PLATTSBURGH-BASED DEMOCRAT LED BY A MARGIN OF ONLY A FEW THOUSAND VOTES OVER CONSERVATIVE DOUG HOFFMAN IN THE 11-COUNTY DISTRICT INCLUDING ST.LAWRENCE COUNTY LATE TUESDAY NIGHT. ELECTION MACHINE MALFUNCTIONS IN SOME MUNICIPALITIES, A STATEWIDE IMPOUND, AND ABSENTEE BALLOTS WILL ALTER THE RESULTS, BUT THE TENATATIVE CALL IS FOR OWENS. BOTH CANDIDATES WAITED UNTIL WELL PAST MIDNIGHT TO APPEAR AT THEIR CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS. OWENS SAID IN PLATTSBURGH AFTER HOFFMAN CONCEDED HIS FOCUS WILL BE ON THE ECONOMY AND JOBS.
THE VICTORY FOR OWENS MEANS MUCH OF THE AREA THAT IS NOW THE 23RD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT WILL BE REPRESENTED BY A DEMOCRAT THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE MID-1800’S, AND SOME PARTS OF THE DISTRICT FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER.
.UNOFFICIAL RESULTS FROM OTHER CONTESTED RACES AROUND THE COUNTY....JUDY RICH AND MIKE ZAGROBELNY KEPT THEIR SEATS ON THE POTSDAM TOWN COUNCIL BY WIDE MARGINS. IN MASSENA, TENTATIVE RESULTS HAVE REPUBLICAN JOE GRAY UNSEATING DEMOCRATIC TOWN COUNCILMAN GARY EDWARDS. TOWN COUNCIL SEATS IN MASSENA GO TO AL NICOLA AND CHARLES RAITI.
WADDINGTON VOTERS CHOSE MARK SCOTT FOR SUPERVISOR. RUSSELL TOWN COUNCIL SEATS GO TO CAROL COLLER AND SANDRA BURNHAM. IN THE TOWN OF STOCKHOLM, CLARK DECKER AND ROBERT MC.CUIN WIN COUNCIL SEATS.
DEMOCRAT CHARLES PERNICE DEFEATS REPUBLICAN BERNARD LANNING, JR. FOR TOWN OF NORFOLK SUPERVISOR. JEAN GANG AND ROBERT HARVEY WIN TOWN COUNCIL SEATS. IN PIERREPONT, CARMEN CASOLARA AND TOM LATIMER WIN COUNCIL SEATS. THE CITY OF OGDENSBURG SEES R. STORM CILLEY AND DANIEL SKAMPERLE WINNING COUNCIL SEATS
OTHER UNOFFICIAL RESULTS FROM TUESDAY….SYLVIA KINGSTON AND JOSEPH FRANK WIN CANTON VILLAGE TRUSTEE SEATS. CONNOR BURT WINS THE DEKALB HIGHWAY SUPERINTENDENT’S RACE. MIKE LIVINGSTON AND JODY HAMILTON WIN SEATS ON THE TOWN COUNCIL IN DEKALB. RICHARD PRAY AND THOMAS MC.KAY, JR. WIN TOWN COUNCIL SEATS IN DEPEYSTER. VICKIE DAVENPORT AND PHILLIP GIARDINO WIN TOWN COUNCIL SEATS IN FINE. ELDON CONKLIN AND HAROLD LACEY WIN TOWN COUNCIL SEATS IN GOUVERNEUR. RON BERTRAM WINS THE SUPERVISOR’S RACE IN HAMMOND. DARLENE AMYOT WINS THE RACE FOR HAMMOND TOWN CLERK. DONALD GREENE WINS THE HIGHWAY SUPERINTENDENT’S RACE IN HAMMOND. LISA PROVEN STAYS ON AS HAMMOND TOWN JUSTICE, WILLIAM SHERIDAN ALSO WINS A JUSTICE POST IN HAMMOND. JAMES TAGUE AND DOUGLAS DELOSH WIN SEATS ON THE TOWN COUNCIL IN HAMMOND. IN HERMON, ROSE WARREN WINS THE RACE FOR TOWN SUPERVISOR…WILLIAM DIBBLE AND DAVID DOIRON WIN SEATS ON THE COUNCIL. IN LOUISVILLE, TENTATIVE RESULTS SHOW DANIEL O’KEEFE, JR. AND PATRICK CARROLL WINNING COUNCIL SEATS. THE SLATE OF SCHERMERHORN AND GATES WINS TOWN COUNCIL SEATS IN MACOMB. JOSEPH FINNEGAN GETS A TENTATIVE WIN FOR TOWN SUPERVISOR IN MADRID, WILLIAM BARKLEY, JR. WINS HIGHWAY SUPERINTENDENT.
DONALD MALLETTE WINS THE RACE FOR HIGHWAY SUPERINTENDENT IN PITCAIRN.
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