Election results

GOSHEN — Annie Rabbitt, the incumbent Republican and Conservative from Greenwood Lake, won reelection for a fifth term in the state Assembly by defeating Monroe Town Councilman Gerard T. McQuade Jr., a Democrat who also ran on the Working Families line.

Rabbitt, who has been an assemblywoman since 2005, said the victory was not just hers, but for the voters as well.

“Your trust and confidence in me is humbling.” she said.

The unofficial totals for the 98th Assembly District were:

Rabbitt: 22,330

McQuade: 18,270



99th Assembly seat

Democrat James Skoufis won the race for the state Assembly’s 99th District, in unofficial results reported in Orange and Rockland counties.

His Republican opponent, Kyle Roddey, the Village of Goshen mayor, won more votes in Rockland than Skoufis did. But Skoufis, a member of the Woodbury Town Board, pulled ahead significantly in Orange:

Kyle Roddey

Rockland: 3,055

Orange: 18,331

James Skoufis

Rockland: 2,908

Orange: 24,170

Skoufis will take the seat now occupied by the longtime incumbent, Republican Nancy Calhoun, who is retiring.

18th Congressional District

Incumbent Nan Hayworth, a Republican, lost her seat in New York’s 18th District in the U.S. House of Representatives to Democrat Sean Patrick Maloney, according to The New York Times. The Times reports that 51.7 percent of votes went for Maloney and 48.3 percent for Hayworth.

Hayworth is serving her first term, which she won two years ago by defeating Democrat John Hall, who served from 2007 to 2011.

President

With 99 percent of the 322 precincts in Orange County reporting, the presidential tally looked like this:

Barack Obama: 67,054

Mitt Romney: 60,164

U.S. Senate

Also with 99 percent of precincts reporting, here’s how voters in Orange County cast their ballots for U.S. Senator:

Democrat Kirsten E. Gillibrand: 81,868

Republican Wendy Long: 41,177