STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Election Day 2023 has come and gone, but for Staten Island it’s almost like it never happened.
That’s because there wasn’t a single incumbent facing a major party challenger for any of the borough’s local seats.
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Crunching numbers is typically one of the fascinating elements of Election Night and the day-after, but what does this type of election season look like by-the-numbers?
Our borough’s approximately half-million population is roughly the same size as the city of Atlanta – one of the top 40 most-populous cities in the nation. But, without challengers, the turnout was measly.
The city Board of Election’s unofficial Election Night results show only about 21,000 votes counted in the borough-wide race for District Attorney. That is out of more than 300,000 active registered voters.
Here’s how it looks by the numbers. Note that these are unofficial Election Night tallies provided by the Board of Elections, which will later be fully reported to include absentee ballots.
When the results are finalized the city releases details of the write-in votes.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
With 97.43% of precincts reporting, District Attorney Michael E. McMahon, a Democrat, had 93.36% of the vote, or 19,509 votes cast.
With no opponent to vote for, 1,388 votes were write-ins, or a total of 6.64%.
CITY COUNCIL: NORTH SHORE
The only incumbent with an opponent, North Shore Councilwoman Kamillah Hanks, a Democrat, faced a challenge from Ruslan Shamal, who ran on the Safe Streets SI line.
With 95.04% of precincts reporting, Hanks had 6,456 votes, or 79.11% of the total. Shamal had 16.43%, or 1,341 votes. There were 364 write-in votes for 4.46%.
CITY COUNCIL: MID-ISLAND
Mid-Island City Councilman David Carr had voters casting for him on both the Republican and Conservative lines.
With 97.92% of precincts reporting, the Repulican had a total of 9,568 votes, or 95.26%. Of those, 7,979 were on the Republican line and…
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