Republicans sweep local races

The Republicans celebrated their Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, wins that night at the Stereo Garden in Patchogue Village.
“We have a secret weapon in our midst--- he is a leader of the Republican conference in the house majority,” Brookhaven Republican chairman Jesse Garcia said when introducing Andrew Garbarino.
In the largest race win of the night, Republican incumbent Andrew Garbarino maintained his 2nd Congressional seat with 58.46 percent of the votes to Democratic contender Rob Lubin with 41.48 percent of the votes. Garbarino won with 165,908 votes to Lubin’s 117,707 votes.
“Know what we did tonight, by sending myself and Nick LaLota back to Congress? We are going to put this country back on the map,” Garbarino said in his speech addressing the crowd. “We showed today that we aren’t going to take it anymore. We are going to fight.”
According to Garbarino, the top three issues he will focus on will be lowering the cost of living, continuing to address our local infrastructure needs, and securing our borders.
As for New York State Assembly, incumbent Republican in the 3rd District Joe DeStefano was re-elected with 31,868 votes; over 60 percent. His Democratic opponent Trina Miles, who did not actively campaign, took home 20,622 votes, just over 39 percent.
DeStefano said he will be focusing on reducing taxes and inflation and to make housing more affordable, state and federal funds must also be made available for shovel-ready housing projects that require either new sewers or can be served by expanding existing facilities.
“Thanks, from the bottom of my heart to all my friends and supporters, and the voters, for their faith and confidence in me,” DeStefano said. “I’ll work even harder to make sure their voice is heard in Albany. As they already know, my door is always open—call, email, drop in if there is anything l can do for you.”
In the New York State Senate District 3 seat, incumbent Republican Dean Murray won with over 61 percent of the votes or 87,097 votes to the Democratic opponent Michael Conroy’s 53,652 votes; he did not actively campaign.

"Let me start by saying 'thank you' to all who voted to return me to Albany and allow me to continue doing the job I love!" Murray said. "There is so much that needs to be done to help keep our communities and our streets safe, to bring the migrant crisis under control, to make Long Island and New York more affordable and to make sure our schools are properly funded... and now that the election is in the past, I'm excited to get back to work on these and many other issues."

The full unofficial results of Tuesday’s election can be found on the Suffolk County Board of Elections website.

DISCLAIMER: All vote tallies are not final counts and based off the initially released unofficial votes. Absentee ballots are still to be counted and announced.