Trump wins big in Orleans County

Susan Howard elected district attorney

Photo by Tom Rivers: A Medina resident displayed this sign in support of Donald Trump for president.

ALBION – Donald Trump won a commanding victory in Orleans County with 70 percent of the vote – 12,432 out of 17,780 ballots cast.

Head to head against Kamala Harris, Trump had a 70.4 percent advantage to 29.4 percent for Harris. There were also 121 write-in votes, 145 who didn’t vote for president, and 6 that were overvotes with more than one candidate picked.

The 70.0 percent for Trump with early votes, today’s in-person votes and most of the absentees compares to 71.4 percent in 2020 when he faced Joe Biden, and 66.8 percent of the election day votes in 2016 against Hillary Clinton.

Here are the results in Orleans County:

Federal

• U.S. President/Vice President (4-year term)

Donald Trump/JD Vance (R, C) – 12,432

Kamala Harris, Tim Walz (D, WF) – 5,227

• U.S. Senator (6-year term)

Kirsten Gillibrand (D-WF) – 5,344

Michael Sapraicone (R-C) – 11,375

Diane Sare (LaRouche) – 53

• Representative to Congress, 24th District (2-year term)

Claudia Tenney (R, C) – 12,131

David Wagenhauser (D) – 4,327

State

• Proposition One

Yes – 5,800

No – 10,718

• Supreme Court Justice, 8th District (4 positions)

Henry Nowak (D, R, C, WF) – 15,330

Catherine Nugent-Panepinto (D, R, C, WF) – 14,547

Deborah Chimes (D, R, C) – 14,261

Michael Norris (D, R, C) – 14,305

• NYS Senate, 62nd District (2-year term)

Robert Ortt (R, C) – 13,996

• NYS Assembly, 139th District (2-year term)

Stephen Hawley (R, C) – 14,228

Orleans County

• County Clerk (4-year term)

Nadine Hanlon (R) – 13,354

• District Attorney (4-year term)

Susan Howard (R, C) – 13,992

• Coroner (4-year term for 3 positions)

Rocco Sidari (R) – 10,837

Scott Schmidt (R) – 10,681

Julie Woodworth (R) – 10,460

Carlton

• Town Clerk (1 year to fill vacancy)

Deborah Yockel (R) – 1,149

• Council Member (1 year to fill vacancy)

John L. Olles (R) – 1,136