THE REPUBLICAN ST.LAWRENCE COUNTY CLERK FROM HEUVELTON DEFEATED DEMOCRATIC INCUMBENT DARREL AUBERTINE WITH A TALLY OF 35-THOUSAND 533 TO AUBERTINE’S 32-THOUSAND 186-A MARGIN OF 52-TO-48 PERCENT. THAT IS NOT COUNTING ABOUT 39-HUNDRED ABSENTEES. HERE IN ST.LAWRENCE COUNTY, RITCHIE WON BY OVER 23-HUNDRED VOTES.

DEMOCRATIC 23RD DISTRICT CONGRESSMAN BILL OWENS SURVIVES A CHALLENGE BY REPUBLICAN MATT DOHENY WITH A DISTRICT-WIDE TALLY OF 75-THOUSAND 790 TO 71-THOUSAND 785. ABOUT 92-HUNDRED ABSENTEE BALLOTS HAVE YET TO BE COUNTED. ST.LAWRENCE COUNTY VOTERS WENT WITH OWENS BY MORE THAN 4-THOUSAND VOTES. CONSERVATIVE DOUG HOFFMAN GOT MORE THAN 11-HUNDRED 50 VOTES IN ST.LAWRENCE COUNTY. DOHENY MADE HIS CONCESSION OFFICIAL AROUND MIIDNIGHT.

DEMOCRAT ADDIE JENNE RUSSELL SURVIVES THE RACE WITH REPUBLICAN OPPONENT DAVID FORSYTHE IN THE 118TH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT WITH A MARGIN OF 55-45 PERCENT WITH OVER 15-HUNDRED ABSENTEES. RUSSELL WON IN ST.LAWRENCE COUNTY BY JUST UNDER 2-THOUSAND VOTES.

REPUBLICAN KEN BLANKENBUSH DEFEATED DEMOCRAT BRIAN MC.GRATH FOR THE 122ND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT SEAT BY ABOUT 10 PERCENT DISTRICT-WIDE WITH ABOUT 1700 ABSENTEES. BLANKENBUSH LOST IN ST.LAWRENCE COUNTY BY 165 VOTES

REPUBLICAN 47TH STATE SENATE INCUMBENT JOSEPH GRIFFO DEFEATED DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGER MIKE HENNESSY BY A MARGIN OF MORE THAN 2-TO-1. ST.LAWRENCE COUNTY VOTERS CALLED IT MUCH TIGHTER FOR GRIFFO, A MARGIN OF LESS THAN 2-THOUSAND.

THE TIGHTEST RACE IN ST.LAWRENCE COUNTY THIS MORNING IS FOR MASSENA VILLAGE MAYOR. DEMOCRAT JOSEPH MC.CAULAY LEADS REPUBLICAN JAMES HIDY BY ONE VOTE-87 TO 86. ABSENTEES WILL DECIDE THAT RACE.

DEMOCRAT ANDREW CUOMO WON THE NEW YORK GOVERNOR’S RACE OVER REPUBLICAN CARL PALADINO BY A WIDE MARGIN BOTH COUNTY AND STATEWIDE. REPUBLICAN COMPTROLLER CANDIDATE HARRY WILSON WAS BEHIND DEMOCRAT THOMAS DINAPOLI BY ONE VOTE IN ST.LAWRENCE COUNTY; HE LOST BY A WIDER MARGIN ON THE STATEWIDE BALLOT. DEMOCRAT ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN WON THE STATEWIDE BALLOT FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL, AND ALSO DEFEATED REPUBLICAN DAN DONOVAN IN ST.LAWRENCE COUNTY BY ABOUT 200 VOTES.

DEMOCRATIC US SENATE INCUMBENTS CHARLES SCHUMER AND KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND TROUNCED THEIR OPPONENTS BOTH LOCALLY AJND STATEWIDE.

THE ST.LAWRENCE COUNTY LEGISLATURE APPEARS TO BE HEADING FOR AN 8-7 DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY NEXT YEAR, SLIMMER THAN THE CURRENT 10-7 SPREAD. DISTRICT 1 INCUMBENT DEMOCRAT SAM BURNS KEEPS HIS SEAT BY DEFEATING REPUBLICAN OPPONENT BOB FLAVIN MORE THAN 2-TO-1. REPUBLICAN MARK AKINS RAN UNOPPOSED FOR DISTRICT 2. DISTRICT 3 REPUBLICAN JOSEPH LIGHTFOOT RAN UNOPPOSED. DISTRICT 4 REPUBLICAN INCUMBENT ALEX MACKINNON SURVIVED A CHALLENGE BY DEMOCRAT MICHELE MC.QUEER BY LESS THAN 200 VOTES. DISTRICT 5 INCUMBENT REPUBLICAN DONALD PECK RAN UNOPPOSED. DISTRICT 6 DEMOCRATIC INCUMBENT FRED MORRILL RAN UNOPPOSED. DISTRICT 7 WILL GO TO REPUBLICAN SCOTT SUTHERLAND, WHO DEFEATED CONSERVATIVE LUCIEN PLANTE BY MORE THAN 2-TO-1. DISTRICT 8 VOTERS WENT HEAVILY IN FAVOR OF REPUBLICAN KEVIN ACRES, WHO DEFEATED INDEPENDENCE CHALLENGER MATTHEW FLYNN AND CONSERVATIVE OPPONENT RUSS FINLEY BY ABOUT 6-TO-1 EACH. DISTRICT 9 DEMOCRAT STEVE PUTMAN DEFEATED REPUBLICAN-CONSERVATIVE JOHN CLARK BY MORE THAN 200 VOTES. DISTRICT 10 INCUMBENT PAT TURBETT LOSES HIS SEAT, GETTING THE LEAST OF THREE CANDIDATES WITH 207 VOTES. TURBETT LOST HIS BALLOT LINE AND RAN AS AN INDEPENDENT. DEMOCRATIC PARTY-ENDORSED JIM BUNSTONE IS THE APPARENT WINNER WITH 304 VOTES, REPUBLICAN-CONSERVATIVE CHALLENGER KARL ORTMEYER GOT FIVE MORE VOTES THAN TURBETT. DISTRICT 11 REPUBLICAN-CONSERVATIVE DAN PARKER IS THE APPARENT WINNER OVER DEMOCRAT GAVIN REGAN, 935-821. DISTRICT 12 DEMOCRAT SALLIE BROTHERS RAN UNOPPOSED. DISTRICT 13 REPUBLICAN INCUMBENT THOMAS GROW HAS APPARENTLY LOST HIS SEAT TO DEMOCRAT TONY ARQUIETT 981-747. DISTRICT 14 DEMOCRAT AND CURRENT LEGISLATURE CHAIRMAN GREG PAQUIN RAN UNOPPOSED. DEMOCRAT JONATHAN PUTNEY DEFEATED REPUBLICAN-CONSERVATIVE KEVIN PERRETTA FOR DISTRICT 15 BY MORE THAN 2-TO-1. THE COUNTY TREASURER’S JOB GOES TO REPUBLICAN KEVIN FELT, DEFEATING CONSERVATIVE DAVID BUTTON BY MORE THAN 3-TO-1.

THE COUNTY CORONER’S RACE WAS TIGHT ALL NIGHT AS NUMBERS CAME IN TUESDAY. VOTERS WERE ASKED TO ELECT TWO. BY MIDNIGHT DEMOCRATIC INCUMBENT JAMIE SIENKIEWYCZ SURVIVED THE CHALLENGE, GETTING THE MOST VOTES AT JUST OVER 13-THOUSAND. REPUBLICAN JOSEPH WHITE IS THE APPARENT WINNER OF THE SECOND SEAT WITH ABOUT 12-THOUSAND 300. REPUBLICAN MATTHEW DENNER AND DEMOCRAT BRETT GRANDAW CAME IN THIRD AND FOURTH, NOT WINNING A SEAT.

OGDENSBURG CITY VOTERS CHOSE REPUBLICAN WILLIAM SMALL TO BE CITY JUDGE, DEFEATING DEMOCRATIC CHALLANGER MARCIA LEMAY BY LESS THAN 200 VOTES, AND WITH WIDER MARGINS OVER MARY RAIN AND JAMES MONROE.

DEMOCRAT CHRISTOPHER CURLEY DEFEATED REPUBLICAN THOMAS WHEELER FOR CANTON TOWN JUSTICE 1204-986. ALSO IN THE TOWN OF CANTON, DEMOCRAT JIM SMITH DEFEATED REPUBLICAN MIKE MORGAN FOR TOWN COUNCIL 1352-953.

TOWN OF CLARE REPUBLICAN FRANCIS SHARPSTENE WAS ELECTED TO FILL AN UNEXPIRED TERM FOR TOWN SUPERVISOR. COLTON VOTERS ELECTED REPUBLICAN DALE ROBAR TOWN JUSTICE. DEKALB JUSTICE HOWARD PUTNEY RAN UNOPPOSED. HERMON REPUBLICAN THERESA TARNAWSKY RAN UNOPPOSED FOR TOWN COUNCIL.

TOWN OF HOPKINTON VOTERS CHOSE REPUBLICAN DAVID BEEKMAN FOR TOWN JUSTICE, DEFEATING INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES JOE VAN ELLS AND STEVE BORY BY WIDE MARGINS

THE RACE FOR LOUISVILLE TOWN COUNCIL IS TIGHT. REPUBLICAN GAIL SCHNEIDER IS AHEAD OF DEMOCRAT ROY BESHAW BY NINE VOTES, 494-483. LOUISVILLE VOTERS APPROVED A BALLOT PROPOSITION 490-335.

TOWN OF MACOMB VOTERS ELECTED DEMOCRAT GREG WASHBURN AND DEMOCRAT AND REPUBLICAN-ENDORSED STEVE BURKE FOR TOWN COUNCIL SEATS TO FILL UNEXPIRED TERMS. LAFAYETTE YOUNG RAN UNOPPOSED FOR MACOMB TOWN JUSTICE. MADRID TOWN JUSTICE JENNIFER APPLEBY RAN UNOPPOSED. MASSENA TOWN JUSTICE GERRY SHARLOW ALSO RAN UNOPPOSED THIS YEAR, AS DID POTSDAM TOWN JUSTICE SAM CHARLESON.

ALL THE WAY DOWN IN PITCAIRN, INDEPENDENT RICHARD ATKINSON WAS ELECTED TOWN SUPERVISOR BY EIGHT VOTES OVER INDEPENDENT SAM FRANK, JR. AND A WIDE MARGIN OVER INDEPENDENT SADIE DEAMER.

STOCKHOLM TOWN VOTERS PICK DEMOCRAT NANCY LYNCH BY A NARROW MARGIN OVER REPUBLICAN KENNETH EVERHART FOR COUNCIL 452-445.

WADDINGTON DEMOCRAT ROBERT DALTON DEFEATS REPUBLICAN JAMES THEW 458-353 FOR TOWN COUNCIL.

CANTON VILLAGE VOTERS ELECTED DEMOCRAT GREG STORIE VILLAGE JUSTICE, DEFEATING REPUBLICAN CAROL SHEESLEY 541-497. IT APPEARS REPUBLICAN CANTON TRUSTEE DAVID CURRY LOSES HIS SEAT. VOTERS WERE ASKED TO PICK TWO; DEMOCRAT JESSE COBURN AND REPUBLICAN MARY ANN ASHLEY WERE THE TOP TWO VOTE-GETTERS. ASHLEY DEFEATS CURRY 628-542, COBURN DEFEATED CURRY BY A MACHINE TALLY OF EXACTLY 200.

HEUVELTON VILLAGE VOTERS FILLED THE TWO OPEN TRUSTEE SEATS WITH TWO CANDIDATES, MICHAEL HEBERT AND NEIL PARISH. GUS GARDINO TAKES AN UNEXPIRED TERM AS TRUSTEE.

GOUVERNEUR VILLAGE VOTERS ELECT REPUBLICAN TRUSTEES CHARLES NEWVINE AND GEORGE HARDER.

MASSENA VILLAGE VOTERS RE-ELECTED JUSTICE ERIC GUSTAFSON WHO RAN UNOPPOSED THIS YEAR. TWO TRUSTEE CANDIDATES, TIM AHLFELD AND PATRICIA PRASHAW-WILSON WIN TWO OPEN SEATS.