Special edition: The 2026 interactive election map is live, see how LI voted

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How Long Islanders voted

No postmortem of the 2026 election is complete until Newsday publishes its interactive map detailing the red and blue breakdown by each Long Island election district.

Newsday mapped how Nassau and Suffolk counties voted up and down the line for federal, state and local races.

 Find out how your neighborhood voted using the interactive map.

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What to look for in the days ahead

There is much interesting information to mine over the coming weeks.

Right off the bat is determining how a Democrat stunned Republicans by winning the Hempstead Town supervisor race and what communities kept the Town of North Hempstead red. For instance, Valley Stream became more deeply blue, and parts of Inwood turned blue.

At the same time, the map illustrates how the GOP was able to hold onto North Hempstead, as Great Neck and surrounding neighborhoods remained deeply red, and multiple districts in and near North Hills, Manhasset and Plandome either went from neutral to pink, or became more red than they had been previously, surpassing any gains in the town's bluer areas.

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a Republican, underperformed across the state, but he fared better in his home county in some election districts then Republican Hempstead Town Supervisor John Ferretti, who also lost his election. Yet Ferretti bested Blakeman in some Hempstead EDs, surprising since Blakeman is a former Hempstead Town councilman. For example, Blakeman outperformed Ferretti in ED54 in the Five Towns but only by 4 votes, or less than 1%. He beat Ferretti's vote in ED40 by 21 votes, or about 4%. But in Levittown, Ferretti's home turf, Blakeman underperformed Ferretti in some EDs. For example, in ED50, Ferretti got 37 more votes, or about 7%. In ED55, Ferretti received 27 more votes, or about 6%.

The Suffolk County clerk's race was uncontested, but write-in campaigns for at least two candidates jazzed up turnout. County Clerk Vincent Puleo, a Conservative who also runs on the Republican line, won with 89% of the vote. But more than 43,000 people voted for write-in candidates. In a smattering of Suffolk EDs, Puleo came somewhat close to not winning the majority of votes. For example, in Islip ED175 in the Brentwood area, 41.5% of voters chose the write-in option over Puleo. That also happened in Islip EDs 9 (36%) and 205 (35.5%). In Brookhaven ED223 near Stony Brook, 38% of voters selected write-in over Puleo. And in Southold ED2 near Orient Point, 36.5% of voters selected a write-in candidate rather than Puleo.

— Randi F. Marshall randi.marshall@newsday.com and Mark Nolan mark.nolan@newsday.com

 

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