By WBFO News
Buffalo, NY – Here are results of other races of interest from Tuesday's elections.
The race for town supervisor in Orchard Park is still too close to call. Democrat Janis Colarusso, the current town clerk, has a 72 vote lead over Republican candidate Patrick Keem. Absentee ballots have yet to be counted.
In the town of Hamburg, Republican Supervisor Steven Walters was re-elected to a second term, capturing 60 percent of the vote in a three-way race. He'll have a Republican majority on the Town Board even though two Democrats, Joseph Colins and Jonathan Gorman, won seats last night. Republican Amy Carroll Ziegler picked up the other seat being contested.
In the Town of Aurora Jolene Jeffe beat incumbent Dwight Kreeger to win the Supervisor's seat.
Incumbents Christopher Burns and John O'Donnell and Erie County Court Judge Shirley Troutman were elected Tuesday as State Supreme Court justices.
The Niagara County Legislature will shrink from 19 to 15 seats after next year's election as 83 percent of voters approved a downsizing proposition. Elsewhere in Niagara County, Republican challenger Robert Ortt upset incumbent Democrat Lawrence Soos in the North Tonawanda mayor's race.
In the Southern Tier, Gregory Edwards was re-elected as Chautauqua County Executive. But Olean Mayor David Carucci, a Republican, lost his re-election bid to Democrat Linda Witte.
A proposition to give the Erie County Legislature the right to cancel contracts signed by the County Executive won't be decided until absentee ballots are counted, as voters split almost evenly on the issue.
Voters across New York have overwhelmingly approved a minor land swap in a remote northwestern corner of the Adirondacks In return for six acres that National Grid is already using for a new power line in the town of Colton, the state will get 43 acres of the utility's land, also in St. Lawrence County. It's a deal municipal officials, environmentalists and businesses supported. In the other statewide proposition on yesterday's ballot, voters authorized the state to allow inmates to do volunteer work for nonprofit groups.