Schoharie County bled red Tuesday even as New York State stayed blue, electing Governor Kathy Hochul and Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado over Lee Zeldin and Alison Esposito.
With 94 percent of the ballots counted Wednesday, Governor Hochul won a full term to become New York State’s first elected woman governor with 52.7 percent of the vote compared with Mr. Zeldin’s 47.3 percent.
In Schoharie County, Mr. Zeldin got 69.5 percent of the vote and Governor Hochul, 30.3 percent, 8,742-3,807.
Schoharie County voters also rejected the “Clean Water, Clean Air and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act,” 6,276-5,119; statewide, it passed overwhelmingly, 1,476,086-520,154, in unofficial returns.
With 59.2 percent of the votes, GOP Congresswoman Elise Stefanik defeated Matt Castelli, 160,674-110,586, in statewide balloting.
Ms. Stefanik also won here with 66 percent of the vote, 8,283-4,154.
Schoharie County is new to Ms. Stefanik’s district; previously, it was represented by Mr. Delgado and until the end of the year, by Congressman Pat Ryan—lost to redistricting.
Tuesday, Congressman Ryan narrowly won his new 18th District over Republican Assemblyman Colin Schmitt, who conceded the race in a 1:37am phone call to Mr. Ryan.
Assemblyman Chris Tague of Schoharie won reelection to his 102nd District seat, beating Democrat Nick Chase of Franklin, 37,075-19,596; in Schoharie County, Mr. Tague won, 9,176-3,204.
State Senator Peter Oberacker won reelection in his 51st District, Democratic challenger Eric Ball; 8,918-3,403 locally.
Other winners: New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli and Attorney General Letitia James and United States Senator Charles Schumer, none of whom won in Schoharie County.

LOCAL RACES

Voters filled a handful of mostly uncontested races in local voting Tuesday.
In unofficial polling, Ryan McAllister of Cobleskill got 9,996 votes to become the next Schoharie County Judge, Surrogate and Family Court Judge.
Mr. McAllister ran unopposed.
In the Village of Cobleskill, Howard Burt Jr. and Thomas Johnstone won re-election as village trustees with 535 and 503 votes respectively.
In Blenheim, Ralph Arrandale was re-elected town justice with 108 votes.
In Broome, where there were no candidates on the ballot for town justice, there were nine write-ins; those names weren’t available at press time.
In Conesville, Tyler Latta earned 264 votes for highway superintendent.
In the Town of Esperance, there were no candidates to fill two unexpired terms of councilmen, but 148 write-in votes; again, those names weren’t available at press time.
In the Village of Esperance, Mayor Royce Gage was elected to his first full term with 105 votes over Laurel Thesier, who got 22.
For one trustee seat, Alyssa Lowell got 78 votes to win over Howard Burman with 33 votes.
There were no candidates to fill a second, unexpired trustee term, but 46 write-in ballots were cast.
In Jefferson, Vanessa Irwin earned 463 votes to fill an unexpired term of town clerk/collector.
In the Village of Richmondville, Gary Davis and Milan Jackson ran for two trustee seats, and Cynthia Miller ran to fill an unexpired trustee post.
Mr. Davis got 194 votes, Mr. Jackson got 157 votes and Ms. Miller, 204.
Stephen Gerhardt is the new Summit town justice with 437 votes.
In Wright, Shannon Parks got 418 votes and Rae Jean Teeter got 305 to fill an unexpired councilman post.