With 100 percent of machine votes
counted, Anna Throne - Holst, the former Southampton Town
supervisor, maintained a razor - thin lead over David Calone in Tuesday's Democratic primary
election to represent New York's First Congressional District, and the race will come down to absentee ballots.
Noting that Democratic Party nominees had swept the town board
elections, Democratic Committee vice-chair Barbara Sides, who had witnessed the ballot
count on Friday, added, «The fact that the
supervisor race came down to 20 votes is indicative of the opposition to the incumbent's attitude that all land development is good for Gardiner and that the same entrenched interests should be appointed and reappointed to our boards and commissions.»