Cait Conley has won the race for New York’s 17th Congressional District after Republican Rep. Mike Lawler conceded Tuesday night. In Croton’s local elections, Maria Slippen and Len Simon lead the race for two trustee seats, while Ali Raza Jaffery leads for village justice. Those local tallies remain incomplete. CBS News New York reports that Lawler said he called Democratic challenger Conley to concede. Croton News is identifying Conley as the winner on that basis, separately from the unfinished vote count. The Westchester County results page warns that a significant number of unscanned emergency Election Day ballots are missing from its totals. The results are unofficial and subject to change. All eight election districts in Croton’s village contests are marked partially reported. Eight districts reporting does not mean every ballot has been counted.

Slippen and Simon lead for trustee

The county’s overnight figures put Slippen and Simon, running on the Democratic and Working Families lines, ahead of Voice of Croton candidate Mary Lynn Dlabola. Combining each candidate’s ballot lines, the tally is:
  • Maria F. Slippen: 2,058 — 1,680 Democratic and 378 Working Families.
  • Leonard S. Simon: 1,840 — 1,532 Democratic and 308 Working Families.
  • Mary Lynn Dlabola: 742 — Voice of Croton.
  • Write-ins: 19.
Voters could choose two trustees. These are candidate vote totals, not a count of individual voters. For background on the candidates, see our October 8 League of Women Voters forum coverage and full recording.

Jaffery leads for village justice

The same incomplete returns show Ali Raza Jaffery with 1,431 votes, combining 1,215 on the Democratic line and 216 on Working Families. Sam R. Watkins, Jr. has 1,159 on the Voice of Croton line. Two write-in votes are listed. That puts Jaffery 272 votes ahead in the published tally. Croton News is reporting the lead, rather than declaring the local contest finished while ballots remain outstanding.

Congress and the state races

Westchester’s portion of the congressional count shows Conley with 48,653 votes and Lawler with 23,928, plus 71 write-ins. Those are Westchester-only figures, not district-wide totals; the winner designation rests on Lawler’s concession. In other races on Croton voters’ ballots, the county export lists:
  • State Senate District 40: Peter B. Harckham, 39,235; Sergio J. Esposito, 17,611; write-ins, 23.
  • Assembly District 95: Dana Levenberg, 18,275; Lauri Ryan, 6,179; write-ins, 25.
  • County Legislature District 9: Emiljana Ulaj, 9,392; Gaetano V. Ventrone, 2,887; write-ins, 20.
Those figures also combine party lines and remain unofficial. They are the totals supplied by Westchester County, with no votes from another county added. *This preliminary report uses the county’s public media export generated at 1:12 a.m. Eastern on November 4. The export’s generation time is distinct from when Croton News checked it. For subsequent counts, consult the official results page.*