Early voting continues through Sunday, and Election Day is Tuesday.
In East Hampton Town, the ballot includes candidates for supervisor and superintendent of highways as well as governor and lieutenant governor of New York, state comptroller and attorney general, representative of the state’s First Congressional District, state senator and assemblyman, Suffolk County clerk and comptroller, Supreme Court justices for the 10th Judicial District, which covers both Suffolk and Nassau Counties, and Suffolk County Court and Family Court judges.
Having held off a primary challenge from East Hampton Village Mayor Jerry Larsen, Supervisor Kathee Burke-Gonzalez is seeking re-election. She appears on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines. While he is not on the ballot, Mr. Larsen’s supporters are waging a write-in campaign for him.
Stephen Lynch, the superintendent of highways, is unopposed and appears on the Democratic and Republican lines.
Gov. Kathy Hochul, who assumed that role upon the 2021 resignation of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is seeking another four-year term, having narrowly defeated former Representative Lee Zeldin of New York’s First Congressional District in 2022. For lieutenant governor, Ms. Hochul’s running mate on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines is Adrienne Adams, a former speaker of the New York City Council.
Ms. Hochul and Ms. Adams are opposed by Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman and his running mate, Madison County Sheriff Todd Hood. They are running on the Republican, Conservative, and Vote Affordable tickets.
State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli is seeking re-election on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines. His Republican and Conservative Party opponent is Joseph Hernandez, the founder and senior managing partner of Blue Water Venture Partners.
State Attorney General Letitia James, on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines, is seeking re-election. Her Republican and Conservative Party opponent is Saritha Komatireddy, a former prosecutor and chief of staff of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Representative Nick LaLota, first elected in 2022, is seeking a third term in the United States House of Representatives. A staunch supporter of President Trump and early endorser of the president’s 2024 campaign, the Republican and Conservative Party candidate bested the commentator and author John Avlon, the Democratic nominee, that year. This year he will face Christopher Gallant, a political newcomer who is an Army National Guard Black Hawk pilot and former air traffic controller and union president.
State Senator Anthony Palumbo, the Republican and Conservative Party candidate who was elected to that office in 2020, is seeking re-election. He is opposed by E. Christopher Murray, the Democratic and Working Families Party candidate, who is an environmental attorney, former chairman of the board of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, and former chairman of the Suffolk Community College board.
Assemblyman Tommy John Schiavoni, on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines, is seeking a second term, having succeeded longtime Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. His Republican and Conservative Party opponent is Stephen Kiely, a former Shelter Island Town attorney who lost to Mr. Schiavoni by 12 percentage points in the 2024 campaign.
Vincent Puleo, the Suffolk County clerk, is seeking re-election on the Republican and Conservative Party lines. Abigail Field, a Cutchogue attorney who has worked for the Voting Rights Lab and the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group, is undertaking a Democratic-supported write-in campaign.
In the race for Suffolk comptroller, Jon Estreich, a Democrat, major in the Army Reserve, and former Suffolk prosecutor, faces Daniel Losquadro, the Republican and Conservative Party candidate, a former Suffolk legislator and state assemblyman. The winner will succeed John Kennedy, who is term-limited.
The ballot also includes candidates for Supreme Court justices in the 10th Judicial District, for which voters can choose up to eight, and four County Court and three Family Court judges.
The town’s early voting site is the community room at the Windmill Village II senior citizens housing complex, at 219 Accabonac Road in East Hampton.
