Election Day 2013: Close Supervisor Race

UPDATE 11:42PM: With 100 percent of districts reporting, Walter Wettje Jr. has 5,948 votes, just 36 votes more than Andy Stewart's 5,912.


Republicans Denis Troy and Tom Diviny were re-elected to the Orangetown Council. Republican Robert Simon won re-election as Orangetown Receiver of Taxes. He will be the last person to hold the position. Proposition 7, which allows the town to eliminate the position, passed with 74.6 percent of the vote. 

Nyack Mayor Jen Laird-White won re-election with 88.3 percent of the vote, 1,020 total, over Green Party candidate Beth Riso. 

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UPDATE at 10:50 p.m.: With 31 percent of the vote in, incumbent Andy Stewart leads the race for Orangetown Supervisor with 65.4 percent of the vote to Republican challenger Walter Wettje's 34.6 percent. 

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UPDATE at 10:30 p.m.

First results are in from Orangetown with 8.3 percent of the vote.

In the race for Supervisor, Republican Walter Wettje leads with 63.3 percent of the vote to incumbent Democrat Andy Stewart's 36.7.

For town council, incumbent Republicans Tom Diviny and Denis Troy led with 38.3 and 39.4 percent respectively. Democrat Dan Salmon has 11.6 percent and Democrat Annmarie Uhl is at 10.8. 

In the Orangetown Receiver of Taxes race, Republican incumbent Bob Simon took a comfortable early lead over Democratic challenger Chris Smith with 74 percent of the vote.

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UPDATE 9:18 p.m.: Polls are closed. Unofficial results will be posted on the Rockland County Board of Elections website as they come in. According to the website, results will begin being shown after 9:20 p.m.

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Welcome to Election Day 2013.

Polls opened at 6 a.m. and voting will continue until 9 p.m. Be sure to check in with Patch for updates during the day and for results tonight.

Voter turnout has been steady and is expected to surge after 5 p.m. Read more here. 

Rockland County Executive candidate Ed Day cast his ballot and thanked poll workers this morning. Read more here. 

Rockland County Executive candidate David Fried spoke with voters and poll workers as he cast his ballot in Spring Valley this morning. Read more here. 

For details about what is on the ballot for local voters, check out our Guide to Election Day in Nyack, Piermont here. 

Need to know where to go to vote? Check out this report on Patch.