Riverdale and Kingsbridge incumbents celebrate victory

Election results are in and nearly all local incumbents have come out victorious.

According to the New York City Board of Elections, preliminary results show that in the 81st Assembly District, Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, a Democrat, received 77 percent of votes cast to beat Republican challenger Joe McLaughlin's 23 percent.

In the 33rd state Senate District Gustavo Rivera — who handily beat Mr. Espada in the Democratic primary — took 97 percent of the votes, winning out over Green Party candidate John Reynolds, who took 3 percent. In the 31st, Democratic Assemblyman Adriano Espaillat received 84 percent of the votes, while Republican opponent Stylo Sapaskis received 11 percent. In the 34th, state Sen. Jeffrey Klein won with 73 percent, beating Republican Frank Vernuccio’s 27 percent.

According to The New York Times, Eric Schneiderman — who vacated his 31ststate Senate seat to run — became the state’s attorney general, with 55 percent of votes cast. Most other votes went to Republican Dan Donovan, who received 44 percent. Democrat Rep. Eliot Engel kept his seat, with 72 percent of votes cast. His opponent, Tea Party-backed Republican Anthony Mele, received 24 percent of the votes.

Both major ballot measures authored by the New York City Charter Revision Commission were resoundingly approved. 74 percent of voters elected to dump term limit extensions and 83 percent of voters said yes to a variety of administrative rule changes.