Winners: Donovan, Eugene, Dear
Here are unofficial results from the city Board of Elections:
In the Staten Island District Attorney's race , with 92 percent of the precincts reporting back, incumbent Republican Dan Donovan got 17,523 votes (67 percent). Democratic challenger Mike Ryan got 8,527 (32.7 percent).
In the City Council race in Brooklyn, with 100 percent of the precincts reporting back, incumbent Democrat Mathieu Eugene got 3,024 votes (90.4 percent). Republican challenger Clarence John got 322 votes (9.6 percent).
In the civil court judicial race in Brooklyn, with 100 percent of the precincts reporting back, Democrat Noach Dear got 7,634 votes (65 percent). Republican James McCall got 4,106 votes (35 percent).
There are a more local election results here and here.
And here are links to more results for races in and around Dutchess County, Erie County, Mt. Vernon, Nassau County, Syracuse and Westchester County.
- Poll
- Obama (D)
- McCain(R)
- Spread
- RCP Average
- 49.9
- 42.3
- Obama +7.6
- Candidate
- Favorable
- Unfavorable
- Spread
- Obama
- 55.9
- 36.7
- +19.2
- McCain
- 49.6
- 41.7
- +7.9
Congrats to those that opposed Noach Dear. I cant remember the last time that a Democrat in Brooklyn (10-1 Democrat) won by such a small margin in a Judicial race!
It's pretty amazing that Dear got such a small percentage. The Orthodox vote is conservative and is a block that often swings Republican. It's possible that Dear lost the non-Orthodox Democratic vote to a conservative Republican. McCall says that he is happy to part of "Bush's Republican party," which is about the most unpopular thing for any politician to say in Brooklyn... except, perhaps, to say that you are happy to be part of "Vito Lopez' Democratic party."