New York State’s General Election took place on Tuesday, Nov. 2. Results of the election were not tallied by press time, but Democratic incumbents in the Bronx (with the exception of 33rd District State Senator Pedro Espada, who lost to Gustavo Rivera in the September primary) were all predicted to hold on to their seats for another term.

Still, voters turned out to their local polling stations to cast their votes.

“I vote in every election,” said Norwood resident Herbert Hall, who voted at St. Brendan’s School on East 207th Street. “Democratic all the way.”

The scene was bustling at Mosholu Montefiore Community Center, where nearly 60 voters had cast their ballots before lunchtime. Poll coordinator Marie Sparks said voter turnout was steady and that everything was going smoothly.  

“It’s really been fine,” she said.

(Ed. Note: Find all the election results at bronxnewsnetwork.org.)

Things didn’t go quite as well during the September primary, when a new, scanner-based voting system caused confusion and minor chaos for voters and poll workers alike. Many poll sites opened late that day or had broken ballot scanning machines. Mayor Bloomberg called the Board of Elections’ performance a “royal screw-up.”

All those voting mishaps led to the firing of BOE Executive Director George Gonzalez at the end of October, just a week before the general election. Gonzalez, a longtime Bronx Democrat, received the short-lived position this August after Bronx Democratic Party