Primary Results in Rockland County

ROCKLAND COUNTY, NY — The primaries were Tuesday and several races in Rockland County were quite heated, among them several in communities covered by Patch. Here are the unofficial results according to the county Board of Elections.

Countywide
Keith J. Cornell and Alden H. Wolfe are running for Rockland County Surrogate Court Judge. They were vying in the Democratic and Working Families primaries, seeking to get those lines in the general election in November.

Democratic Primary

• Keith J. Cornell: 5,549
• Alden H. Wolfe: 4,314
• WRITE-IN: 133

Working Families Primary

• Keith J. Cornell: 66
• Alden H. Wolfe: 99
• WRITE-IN: 2

The Conservative primary for County Executive heated up when 500 new Conservative Party voters registered this summer. Thomas Sullivan challenged incumbent Ed Day, who was endorsed by the county committee.

Day called for an investigation into the influx of Conservative voters. Sullivan rebuked him for challenging legal registrations.

Meanwhile, two other primaries for County Executive had but one person plus the opportunity for voters in those parties to write someone in: the Reform Party, which also had Ed Day on the ballot, and Working Families, which also had Maureen A. Porette on the ballot.

Conservative Primary

• Thomas F. Sullivan: 520
• Ed Day: 574
• WRITE IN: 9

Reform Primary

• Ed Day: 1,320
• WRITE-IN: 684

Working Families

• Maureen A. Porette: 121
• WRITE-IN: 41

Three people were seeking three third-party lines in the race for two seats on the Clarkstown Town Court. Aimee M. Pollak, Craig E. Johns and Scott B. Ugell sought to get on the ballot on the Independence, Reform and Working Families parties.

Independence

• Craig E. Johns: 63
• Aimee M. Pollak: 77
• Scott B. Ugell: 75
• WRITE-IN: 11

Reform

• Craig E. Johns: 369
• Scott B. Ugell: 336
• Aimee M. Pollak: 145

Working Families

• Aimee M. Pollak: 37
• Craig E. Johns: 51
• Scott B. Ugell: 46

There was a Republican primary for Clarkstown Town Council in Ward 3, as Donald Franchino and Adrienne Carey sought the line for the November election.

• Donald Franchino: 179
• Adrienne Carey: 310
• WRITE-IN: 5

Four people were seeking the two Democratic lines in the Village Trustee race: Anngela Vasser-Cooper, Elijah A. Reichlin-Melnick, Marie T. Lorenzini and Joe Carlin.

• Anngela Vasser- Cooper: 215
• Elijah A. Reichlin- Melnick: 491
• Marie T. Lorenzini: 355
• Joe Carlin: 288
• WRITE-IN: 19