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{{Infobox legislative election|election_name=2017 Westchester County Board of Legislators election|country=Westchester County|ongoing=no|previous_election=2015|next_election=2019|seats_for_election=All 17 seats on the [[Westchester County Board of Legislators]]<br/>9 seats needed for a majority|election_date=November 7, 2017|turnout=|leader1=Catherine Parker|party1=New York State Democratic Committee|last_election1=9|percentage1=65.4|seats1=12|leader2=John Testa|party2=New York Republican State Committee|last_election2=7|percentage2=29.2|seats2=4|leader3=Margaret Cunzio|party3=Conservative Party of New York State|last_election3=1|percentage3=4.3|seats3=1}}
The '''2017 Westchester County Board of Legislators elections''' were held on 7 November 2017 in conjunction with the [[2017 Westchester County Executive election]]. The elections resulted in major gains for the [[Democratic Party of New York|Democratic Party]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 November 2017 |title=Westchester County election results: 9 takeaways |url=https://www.lohud.com/story/news/po...estchester-election-2017-takeaways/842196001/ |url-status=live}}</ref> with the party flipping three previously [[Republican Party of New York|Republican]] seats and control of the [[Westchester County Board of Legislators|County Legislature]] from a Republican led Coalition. Benjamin Boykin became chair of the board and Catherine Parker Majority leader. [[Lohud]] attributed the major Democratic gains in heavily Democratic Westchester County as a reaction to the election of [[Donald Trump]] at the [[2016 United States presidential election]]. The Democratic vote increased 6.71% as compared with the 2015 board of legislator elections. Democrats gained one seat they had previously left uncontested, the [[Peekskill, New York|Peekskill]] based District 1 in addition to winning Districts 2 and 10 with their vote share increasing 8.13% and 5.48% respectively.
== Electoral System ==
Members of the Board of Legislators are elected every two years during the [[Off-year election|off-year elections]]. Elections are conducted using [[First-past-the-post voting|first-past-the-post]] in 17 [[Single-member district|single member districts]]. Like all partisan [[Elections in New York (state)|elections in New York]], [[Fusion ticket|fusion tickets]] are used.
== Results ==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right; margin-bottom:0"
! colspan="8" |'''2017 Westchester County Board of Legislators Election Results<ref>{{Cite web |title=2017 General Election Canvass Book |url=https://citizenparticipation.westchestergov.com/images/stories/pdfs/2017canvassGeneral1107.pdf |website=Westchester County Board of Elections}}</ref>'''
|-
| colspan="8" align="center" |
|-
! colspan="2" style="width:10px" |Party
!Candidates
! style="width:70px;" |Votes
! style="width:55px;" |%
! style="width:55px;" |% +/–
! style="width:40px;" |Seats
!Seats +/–
|-
| style="background:#3333FF;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |[[New York State Democratic Committee|'''Democratic''']]
|'''16'''
|'''123,701'''
|'''65.39%'''
|'''{{increase}} 6.71%'''
|'''12'''
|'''{{increase}} 3'''
|-
| style="background:#E81B23;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |[[New York Republican State Committee|Republican]]
|9
|55,310
|29.24%
|{{decrease}} 6.81%
|4
|{{decrease}} 3
|-
| style="background:#FF8C00;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Conservative Party of New York State|Conservative]]
|1
|8,117
|4.29%
|{{increase}} 0.11%
|1
|{{steady}}
|-
| style="background:#FFC14E;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Independence Party of New York|Independence]]
|1
|1,017
|0.54%
|''New''
|0
|''New''
|-
| style="background:#f598e2;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Working Families Party|Working Families]]
|1
|650
|0.34%
|''New''
|0
|''New''
|-
|
|Write-in
|''N/A''
|380
|0.20%
|{{decrease}} 0.17%
|0
|0
|-
! colspan="2" |Valid votes
|28
|189,175
|84.12%
|{{increase}} 4.92%
|17
|{{steady}}
|-
! colspan="2" |Blank votes
|'''–'''
|35,724
|15.88%
|{{decrease}} 4.92%
|'''–'''
|'''–'''
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="1" | Registered voters/Turnout
|'''–'''
|'''598,126<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=2017 Enrollment Active |url=https://citizenparticipation.westchestergov.com/images/stories/pdfs/2017enrollactive.pdf |url-status=live |website=Westchester County Board of Elections}}</ref>'''
|'''37.6%'''
|'''{{increase}} 14.4%<ref>{{Cite web |title=2015 Enrollment Active {{!}} Westchester County Board of Elections |url=https://citizenparticipation.westchestergov.com/images/stories/pdfs/20150401enrollActive.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date= |website= |publisher=Westchester County Board of Elections}}</ref>'''
|'''–'''
|'''–'''
|-
! colspan="8" |'''Source:''' Westchester County Board of Elections [https://citizenparticipation.westchestergov.com/images/stories/pdfs/2017canvassGeneral1107.pdf results]
|}
''*Results are added up for the party each candidate is a member of, not fusion tickets.''{{bar box|title=Popular vote|titlebar=#ddd|width=600px|barwidth=410px|bars={{bar percent|'''Democratic'''|{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}|65.39}}
{{bar percent|Republican|{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}|29.24}}
{{bar percent|Other|#777777|5.37}}}}
=== By district ===
'''BOLD''' represents a flip and ''ITALICS'' represent a new legislator of the same party.
{| class="sortable wikitable" style="font-size:95%;line-height:14px;"
!District
! class="unsortable" |[[Incumbent]]
! colspan="2" |Party
!+/- [[Democratic Party of New York|D]]%
! class="unsortable" |Elected Legislator
! colspan="2" |Party<!--Bolding and Italicizing is deliberate. Bold represents a flip and italics represent a new Legislator of the same party.-->
|-
|1
|John G. Testa
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |
|Rep
| +43.86%
|John G. Testa
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |
|Rep
|-
|2
|Francis T. Corcoran
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |
|Rep
| +8.13%
|'''Kitley Covill'''
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|'''Dem'''
|-
|3
|Margareta A. Cunzio
| style="background:{{party color|Conservative Party (United States)}};" |
|Con
| +0.88%
|Margareta A. Cunzio
| style="background:{{party color|Conservative Party (United States)}};" |
|Con
|-
|4
|Michael B. Kaplowitz
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
|–0.01%
|Michael B. Kaplowitz
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
|-
|5
|Benjamin Boykin II
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
| +0.45%
|Benjamin Boykin II
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
|-
|6
|David B. Gelfarb
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |
|Rep
| +53.03%
|'''Nancy E. Barr'''
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|'''Dem'''
|-
|7
|Catherine F. Parker
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
| +7.04%
|Catherine F. Parker
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
|-
|8
|Alfreda A. Williams
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
| +0.27%
|Alfreda A. Williams
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
|-
|9
|Catherine A. Borgia
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
|–1.72%
|Catherine A. Borgia
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
|-
|10
|Sheila M. Marcotte
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |
|Rep
| +5.48%
|'''Damon R. Mather'''
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|'''Dem'''
|-
|11
|James Maisano
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |
|Rep
|N/A
|James Maisano
| style="background: {{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |
|Rep
|-
|12
|MaryJane C. Shimsky
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
| +0.06%
|MaryJane C. Shimsky
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
|-
|13
|Lyndon D. Williams
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
| +0.09%
|Lyndon D. Williams
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
|-
|14
|Bernice Spreckman
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |
|Rep
|–0.32%
|''David J. Tubiolo''
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |
|Rep
|-
|15
|Gordon A. Burrows
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |
|Rep
| +6.58%
|Gordon A. Burrows
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |
|Rep
|-
|16
|Ken Jenkins
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
|–15.34%
|''Christopher A. Johnson''
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
|-
|17
|Jose I. Alvadrado
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
| +5.19%
|Jose I. Alvadrado
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
|}
=== Close races ===
''Districts where the margin of victory was under 10%:''
# '''{{font color|blue|District 6, 6.10%}} (gain)'''
# '''{{font color|blue|District 10, 6.14%}} (gain)'''
# '''{{font color|red|District 15, 7.88%}}'''
== See also ==
* [[2017 Westchester County Executive election]]
* [[Westchester County Board of Legislators]]
== References ==
<references group="lower-alpha" />
Okumaya devam et...
{{Infobox legislative election|election_name=2017 Westchester County Board of Legislators election|country=Westchester County|ongoing=no|previous_election=2015|next_election=2019|seats_for_election=All 17 seats on the [[Westchester County Board of Legislators]]<br/>9 seats needed for a majority|election_date=November 7, 2017|turnout=|leader1=Catherine Parker|party1=New York State Democratic Committee|last_election1=9|percentage1=65.4|seats1=12|leader2=John Testa|party2=New York Republican State Committee|last_election2=7|percentage2=29.2|seats2=4|leader3=Margaret Cunzio|party3=Conservative Party of New York State|last_election3=1|percentage3=4.3|seats3=1}}
The '''2017 Westchester County Board of Legislators elections''' were held on 7 November 2017 in conjunction with the [[2017 Westchester County Executive election]]. The elections resulted in major gains for the [[Democratic Party of New York|Democratic Party]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 November 2017 |title=Westchester County election results: 9 takeaways |url=https://www.lohud.com/story/news/po...estchester-election-2017-takeaways/842196001/ |url-status=live}}</ref> with the party flipping three previously [[Republican Party of New York|Republican]] seats and control of the [[Westchester County Board of Legislators|County Legislature]] from a Republican led Coalition. Benjamin Boykin became chair of the board and Catherine Parker Majority leader. [[Lohud]] attributed the major Democratic gains in heavily Democratic Westchester County as a reaction to the election of [[Donald Trump]] at the [[2016 United States presidential election]]. The Democratic vote increased 6.71% as compared with the 2015 board of legislator elections. Democrats gained one seat they had previously left uncontested, the [[Peekskill, New York|Peekskill]] based District 1 in addition to winning Districts 2 and 10 with their vote share increasing 8.13% and 5.48% respectively.
== Electoral System ==
Members of the Board of Legislators are elected every two years during the [[Off-year election|off-year elections]]. Elections are conducted using [[First-past-the-post voting|first-past-the-post]] in 17 [[Single-member district|single member districts]]. Like all partisan [[Elections in New York (state)|elections in New York]], [[Fusion ticket|fusion tickets]] are used.
== Results ==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right; margin-bottom:0"
! colspan="8" |'''2017 Westchester County Board of Legislators Election Results<ref>{{Cite web |title=2017 General Election Canvass Book |url=https://citizenparticipation.westchestergov.com/images/stories/pdfs/2017canvassGeneral1107.pdf |website=Westchester County Board of Elections}}</ref>'''
|-
| colspan="8" align="center" |
|-
! colspan="2" style="width:10px" |Party
!Candidates
! style="width:70px;" |Votes
! style="width:55px;" |%
! style="width:55px;" |% +/–
! style="width:40px;" |Seats
!Seats +/–
|-
| style="background:#3333FF;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |[[New York State Democratic Committee|'''Democratic''']]
|'''16'''
|'''123,701'''
|'''65.39%'''
|'''{{increase}} 6.71%'''
|'''12'''
|'''{{increase}} 3'''
|-
| style="background:#E81B23;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |[[New York Republican State Committee|Republican]]
|9
|55,310
|29.24%
|{{decrease}} 6.81%
|4
|{{decrease}} 3
|-
| style="background:#FF8C00;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Conservative Party of New York State|Conservative]]
|1
|8,117
|4.29%
|{{increase}} 0.11%
|1
|{{steady}}
|-
| style="background:#FFC14E;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Independence Party of New York|Independence]]
|1
|1,017
|0.54%
|''New''
|0
|''New''
|-
| style="background:#f598e2;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Working Families Party|Working Families]]
|1
|650
|0.34%
|''New''
|0
|''New''
|-
|
|Write-in
|''N/A''
|380
|0.20%
|{{decrease}} 0.17%
|0
|0
|-
! colspan="2" |Valid votes
|28
|189,175
|84.12%
|{{increase}} 4.92%
|17
|{{steady}}
|-
! colspan="2" |Blank votes
|'''–'''
|35,724
|15.88%
|{{decrease}} 4.92%
|'''–'''
|'''–'''
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="1" | Registered voters/Turnout
|'''–'''
|'''598,126<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=2017 Enrollment Active |url=https://citizenparticipation.westchestergov.com/images/stories/pdfs/2017enrollactive.pdf |url-status=live |website=Westchester County Board of Elections}}</ref>'''
|'''37.6%'''
|'''{{increase}} 14.4%<ref>{{Cite web |title=2015 Enrollment Active {{!}} Westchester County Board of Elections |url=https://citizenparticipation.westchestergov.com/images/stories/pdfs/20150401enrollActive.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date= |website= |publisher=Westchester County Board of Elections}}</ref>'''
|'''–'''
|'''–'''
|-
! colspan="8" |'''Source:''' Westchester County Board of Elections [https://citizenparticipation.westchestergov.com/images/stories/pdfs/2017canvassGeneral1107.pdf results]
|}
''*Results are added up for the party each candidate is a member of, not fusion tickets.''{{bar box|title=Popular vote|titlebar=#ddd|width=600px|barwidth=410px|bars={{bar percent|'''Democratic'''|{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}|65.39}}
{{bar percent|Republican|{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}|29.24}}
{{bar percent|Other|#777777|5.37}}}}
=== By district ===
'''BOLD''' represents a flip and ''ITALICS'' represent a new legislator of the same party.
{| class="sortable wikitable" style="font-size:95%;line-height:14px;"
!District
! class="unsortable" |[[Incumbent]]
! colspan="2" |Party
!+/- [[Democratic Party of New York|D]]%
! class="unsortable" |Elected Legislator
! colspan="2" |Party<!--Bolding and Italicizing is deliberate. Bold represents a flip and italics represent a new Legislator of the same party.-->
|-
|1
|John G. Testa
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |
|Rep
| +43.86%
|John G. Testa
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |
|Rep
|-
|2
|Francis T. Corcoran
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |
|Rep
| +8.13%
|'''Kitley Covill'''
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|'''Dem'''
|-
|3
|Margareta A. Cunzio
| style="background:{{party color|Conservative Party (United States)}};" |
|Con
| +0.88%
|Margareta A. Cunzio
| style="background:{{party color|Conservative Party (United States)}};" |
|Con
|-
|4
|Michael B. Kaplowitz
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
|–0.01%
|Michael B. Kaplowitz
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
|-
|5
|Benjamin Boykin II
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
| +0.45%
|Benjamin Boykin II
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
|-
|6
|David B. Gelfarb
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |
|Rep
| +53.03%
|'''Nancy E. Barr'''
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|'''Dem'''
|-
|7
|Catherine F. Parker
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
| +7.04%
|Catherine F. Parker
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
|-
|8
|Alfreda A. Williams
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
| +0.27%
|Alfreda A. Williams
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
|-
|9
|Catherine A. Borgia
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
|–1.72%
|Catherine A. Borgia
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
|-
|10
|Sheila M. Marcotte
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |
|Rep
| +5.48%
|'''Damon R. Mather'''
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|'''Dem'''
|-
|11
|James Maisano
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |
|Rep
|N/A
|James Maisano
| style="background: {{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |
|Rep
|-
|12
|MaryJane C. Shimsky
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
| +0.06%
|MaryJane C. Shimsky
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
|-
|13
|Lyndon D. Williams
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
| +0.09%
|Lyndon D. Williams
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
|-
|14
|Bernice Spreckman
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |
|Rep
|–0.32%
|''David J. Tubiolo''
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |
|Rep
|-
|15
|Gordon A. Burrows
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |
|Rep
| +6.58%
|Gordon A. Burrows
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |
|Rep
|-
|16
|Ken Jenkins
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
|–15.34%
|''Christopher A. Johnson''
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
|-
|17
|Jose I. Alvadrado
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
| +5.19%
|Jose I. Alvadrado
| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |
|Dem
|}
=== Close races ===
''Districts where the margin of victory was under 10%:''
# '''{{font color|blue|District 6, 6.10%}} (gain)'''
# '''{{font color|blue|District 10, 6.14%}} (gain)'''
# '''{{font color|red|District 15, 7.88%}}'''
== See also ==
* [[2017 Westchester County Executive election]]
* [[Westchester County Board of Legislators]]
== References ==
<references group="lower-alpha" />
Okumaya devam et...