New York Election Results: Updates On NY-23 Race

UPDATE: Democrat Bill Owens has been declared the winner in the race for the 23rd District.

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The nation focused on a rural swath of northern New York state Tuesday in an unusually relevant special congressional election in which the Democrat sought to exploit a split in Republican loyalties and recapture a seat held for decades by the GOP.

The race started about five weeks ago with three candidates and is ending with two -- Democrat Bill Owens and surprise contender Doug Hoffman, a member of the state Conservative Party.

Republican Dierdre Scozzafava abruptly quit the race over the weekend and backed Owens after Hoffman's supporters accused her of being too liberal for the largely Republican district because of her support of abortion rights and same-sex marriage.

Hoffman started at a distant third and was viewed as a spoiler at best, cutting away at Scozzafava and opening the door for Owens. But promiment Republicans, including former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, endorsed Hoffman instead of the party-picked Scozzafava.

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[NJmikeV]

NJ Dems still have the State House. Christie will be on a short leash.

This election was about Corzine, not the Dems nor Obama.

[Eddie Lawrence]

Mr. Owens victory in NY-23 is far more important now for national politics than the two states won by the Republican­s.Governor­s do not vote in Congress but Mr. Owens will.

[WaltzingMtilda]

But on the plus side, Maine voted NO on the gays.

[NJmikeV]

..a plus for the narrow minded.

[WaltzingMtilda]

Yea, it was a tough loss. But we did get NJ and VA.

I was actually surprised, thought we had this.

Did not think we had Jersey..we­ird.

[bordway]

Now you know what the 23rd thinks of "we".

[lafayette2009]

Courtesy of Jefferson Starship:

Sarah, Sarah
storms are brewing in your eyes,
Sarah, Sarah
no time is a good time for goodbyes

[jan4insight]

Owens wins!

and what does H.P. have to say about? Where's the update they promised?

< crickets >

[lafayette2009]

They are developing their "ACORN did it" argument.

Either that or they are Palin' into obscurity.

[Sorokchitiri]

Two (R)s win against a (D) CEO gov and a I don't know what in VA.

BUT

the BIG (R) guns get there A game on for the NY 23rd..

how many Rs in the NE in congress left??

[lafayette2009]

Erm! the two R wins were Governors and last I checked, they don't have a vote in Congress.

And, the Dem won in NY 23 so now there is one more DEM in Congress.

Other than that, I have no idea what point you are trying to make.

[jaegermeister]

Hofmann just conceded.

[pdog]

Already what no going down without a fight what is he a quitter.

[jaegermeister]

Well, yeah. Palin annointed him. Queen QuitBull herself.

[pdog]

Hell yeah republicans may have won a couple governorships but they lost nationally.

[chrish]

Those governors will have 2010 census results in their hot partisan little hands, ripe for gerrymandering their way back into a majority. You know Republicans: if you can't win fair and square, well, then, cheat!

[lafayette2009]

A la JB

[pdog]

N.Y. District 23 87% reporting

Bill Owens Dem. 59,630 49.1%

Doug Hoffman Con. 55,166 45.4

[pdog]

http://elections.nytimes.com/2009/results/upstate.html

[jaegermeister]

Fox News has called it for Owens.

[pdog]

You know it's true then.

[Matt Osborne - Huffpost Blogger]

They'd never get away with it.

[jasper48]

That had to hurt!!

[jaegermeister]

Yeah those victory laps that some folks were doing on Saturday were a tad premature.

[lafayette2009]

Fair and balanced --- Tee, Hee, Hee!!!

[jaegermeister]

11:40 ET
85% reporting

Bill Owens Dem. 58,483 49.2 %
Doug Hoffman Con. 54,088 45.5 %
Dede Scozzafava Rep. 6,292 5.3 %

[Sorokchitiri]

source please. thanks for the update though. HP promissed 9pm. where are thesre #s from?

[jaegermeister]

NY Times
http://elections.nytimes.com/2009/results/upstate.html

[Querent]

11:15 ET. Still no updated from Huffpo, and we're also not allowed to mention the jumping right hand column.

[jaegermeister]

Just be aware that four precincts in St. Lawrence County are having mechanical problems and total results for the county won't be available tonight, and there are at least 10,226 paper ballots out for the 23rd Congressional District. So no final tally tonight, and unless the margin of victory is 8000 to 9000 there’s gonna be a recount.

[jasper48]

Continuous voting problems in this country is nothing less than pathetic.

[pdog]

Hell yeah it is I thought we were supposed to be technologically advanced but it's like we got third world voting machines

[jasper48]

When once, I made a statement to a Rethuglican friend of mine, stating that 'I saw no reason why we could not use paper ballots to solve this problem', noting that 'they do that in Canada' he said 'it wouldn't work'.

I asked him 'why that was'?

His answer was that 'Canada only had one tenth the population, so it had less to count'.

I said, 'but we have ten times as many people, so we've got that problem covered'.

I think he's still thinking that one over.

[jaegermeister]

NY Times seems to have the most up-to-date numbers
http://elections.nytimes.com/2009/results/upstate.html