The unofficial results of yesterday's election can be found on the Columbia County Board of Elections website. Here are the highlights.
In the race for Columbia County district attorney, Democrat Chris Liberati-Conant won with 9,983 votes. His opponent, Ryan Carty received a total of 9,274 votes--7,628 on the Republican line and 1,646 on the Conservative line.
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Democrats also won the two county judge positions: Michael Howard, with a total of 10,397 votes (9,065 on the Democratic line and 1,332 on the Working Families line), and Brian Herman with a total of 9,172 votes (8,122 on the Democratic line and 1,050 on the Working Families line). Their Republican opponents--Joyce Crawford and Robert Gibson--had totals of 7,934 and 8,802 respectively. Both Crawford and Gibson appeared on the Republican and the Conservative lines.
In Hudson, where there were only Democrats running and no contested races, except in the Third Ward, it is interesting to note how many voters went to the polls and chose not to vote for the candidates on the ballot. A total of 1,409 ballots were cast in Hudson. Kamal Johnson, seeking his third term as mayor, received 951 votes; Heather Campbell, who has been city treasurer since 2014, received 1,045 votes; and Tom DePietro, seeking his fourth term as Common Council president, received 916 votes. About a third of the voters who went to the polls chose not to vote for Johnson and DePietro, and about a quarter of those who voted did not vote for Campbell.
In the First Ward, a total of 341 ballots were cast. Claire Cousin, running for a second term as supervisor, received 265 votes; Gary Purnhagen and Margaret Morris, running for seats on the Common Council, received 230 and 278 votes respectively.
In the Second Ward, a total of 190 ballots were cast. Abdus Miah, running for supervisor, received 144 votes; Mohammed Rony and Dewan Sarowar, running for seats on the Common Council, received totals of 110 and 130 votes respectively.
In the Third Ward, a total of 295 ballots were cast. Michael Chameides, running for reelection as supervisor, received a total of 245 votes; Shershah Mizan and Lola Roberts, running for seats on the Common Council, received 201 and 212 votes respectively. Bill Huston, running for the Council on his own "Fiscal Responsibility" line, received 42 votes.
In the Fourth Ward, a total of 228 ballots were cast. Linda Mussmann, seeking reelection as supervisor, received 161 votes. Jennifer Belton and Rich Volo, running for seats on the Common Council, received 148 and 140 votes respectively.
In the Fifth Ward, a total of 355 ballots were cast. Rick Scalera, seeking reelection as supervisor, received 253 votes. Dominic Merante and Vicky Daskaloudi, both seeking reelection to the Common Council, received 224 and 217 votes respectively.
All the unofficial election night results can be found here.
Update: The election results were updated on Wednesday, November 8. The most recent numbers can be found here.
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And our mayor beat out our common council president in number of write in votes for their positions, 29 to 23, which is impressive and discouraging. And unsurprising!
ReplyDeleteCongrats to the Columbia County Dems this was truly a job well done. Let's not forget that some republicans are not going to vote for a democrat. It's funny you guys said I wouldn't last a day and here I am still here over 1400 days later. Great work Columbia County Dems that should be the story.
ReplyDeleteYou represent a wasted opportunity to actually accomplish something, anything. But you’re more interested in how our city can be your springboard to higher office than how you can actually serve the community. What’s funny is you think you’re actually accomplishing something. It’s like I told you when we first met: you’re smart but intellectually lazy. You’ve not matured since then; just grown older.
DeleteWhy would the mayor springboard to higher office? He's got a pretty cushy gig. Doesn't have to campaign against anyone. No accountability. A 50% raise. A friendly landlord. Social media fanbase. Staff with benefits...
DeleteRunning for office takes work and leaves you open to opposition research. Look how hard Claire Cousin has been working to primary Didi. And look what happened to Ryan Carty and having people dig through 7 years of his Venmo transactions to shame him for using weird emojis. Why deal with all of that?
I feel so bad for Ryan Carty. Ryan has dedicated 10 years of his career to us and was the only candidate with criminal court experience. I've never heard him talk about Trump. I've only ever seen him apply the law. He supports LGBTQ rights. He wanted to expand mental health and drug treatment courts. But because he is a Republican, he's lumped in with the worst of the worst. In another awful mailer, which was distributed so late Ryan had no opportunity for rebuttal, he was blamed for the treatment of a victim in court. But he wasn't even present for the court proceeding. In fact, he was appearing in a different court at that time. There is a lot of talk about how bad the Republicans are country-wide, but the local Democrats are no better in my book.
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ReplyDeleteIt's sad to see the two-party dichotomy trickle down locally from our toxic national politics. Getting local flyers leaning into fears about Trump and the Dobbs decision is quite bizarre, being that these local offices have nothing to do with any of that. Even as a registered Democrat, I find it disappointing that our candidates are reducing our important local issues to the lowest common denominator. We can and should do better. The abysmal turnout shows how disengaged the community is. The fact that our city municipal offices are just handed over with no choice or healthy debate is just sad. Many voters just left many of those offices blank - congrats Mayor. We have some elected officials who take their position for granted, and civil department heads with no accountability. I'm excited about some of the new and returning council members, but if not that many want to run, why do we need two per ward? Or a council president for that matter? We should cut it down to 5 total, and they can select a president/speaker to preside over meetings. They can hire a city manager to be the chief executive and actually run the city departments (something our Mayors are not great at), and the mayor can just handle the ceremonial stuff (the stuff our Mayor is good at). Fortunately, the recent success of Hudson is in spite of our government, not because of it. Unfortunately, this means we won't see real change until things get bad enough to grab the citizens attention.
ReplyDeleteHallelujah! The last thing we need in this world is more Republican judges.
ReplyDeleteI vote Blue, no matter who, because any Republican in public life who chooses to identify as such is a danger to democracy.
ReplyDeleteThonk much? Or not at all? Guessing the latter.
DeleteIf you don't know that many of our local politicians vote Republican but cynically run as Democrats then I have a bridge to sell you, the Ferry St. Bridge
DeleteI was a Bernie supporter and no fan of Trump, but I find it incredulous to observe the Biden supporters jump down the throat of Trump while their own incompetent Commander in Chief and his psychopathic handlers are presently complicit in genocidal mass murder and have incompetently managed a foreign policy that has resulted in multiple wars, the destruction of two countries and the unnecessary deaths of over a hundred thousand people. Bravo democrats, pass me the vomit bag.
DeleteCongratulations to Michael Howard. He's an exceptional legal mind but I do have one question Michael. How could your nephew possibly choose Michigan over Dayton? : )
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