In addition to the Presidential race, several local legislative elections were also held last night and the incumbent candidates swept.
New York State had one U.S. Senate seat up for re-election. Incumbent Democratic candidate Charles Schumer easily defeated his top challenger, Republican Howard Mills, in a 71% to 24% victory, according to CNN.
Incumbent Democratic Congressman Michael McNulty, whose district includes RPI, was also re-elected. CNN’s website had data from 76% of the precincts and showed a 71% to 29% win over Republican opponent Warren Redlich.
Both the State Senate and Assembly seats were uncontested. One of the re-elected legilators, State Republican Senator Joseph Bruno, also serves as the State Senate’s Majority Leader.
