The Democrats managed to keep the disputed seat of the state governor of New York on Tuesday, one of their strongholds, which was nevertheless the scene of a tighter-than-expected race, according to American media.
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Outgoing Governor Kathy Hochul, who replaced powerful local CEO Andrew Cuomo in the summer of 2021 due to a sex scandal, beat her Republican opponent Lee Zeldin, according to ABC and NBC.
According to partial results provided by the New York Times, Ms. Hochul, a 64-year-old centrist Democrat from New York state, won 55 percent of the vote versus 45 percent for her 42-year-old Republican challenger Donald Trump. nicknamed.
Few people imagined before Tuesday’s midterm election that New York and the state, considered progressive left strongholds, could escape democratic control in favor of conservative Republicans.
However, New York State could have given a push to the right, especially outside of cities where Republicans are sometimes more popular than Democrats.
Since October, the race between the right-wing opposition and the center-left majority had escalated amid soaring prices and a growing sense of insecurity in the largest city in the United States and the country’s fourth state.
Until the polls suggest a head-to-head, even a defeat on the edge of Governor Hochul, in favor of Mr. Zeldin.
In addition to elections for governors and local elected officials across the country, the polls on Tuesday must renew a third of the 100 seats of the senators and the entire House of Representatives, which make up the Washington Congress.
The state of New York, 20 million inhabitants, must return 26 representatives to the House, including 19 Democratic incumbents, but Republicans could win nine seats, according to the New York Times and ballotpedia.org.
