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Gustavo Rivera, a 34-year-old first-time candidate buoyed by an army of local, institutional and political support, overwhelmingly defeated incumbent 33rd District State Senator Pedro Espada, Jr. last week in one of the state’s most watched primary battles.

For Fatima Daffeh, a senior at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, every day is a battle. She and her fellow students fight over seats in their classrooms and for space in the school’s crowded hallways. It’s not uncommon, she says, for a teacher to run out of books.

A wild, sprawling shootout in the Knox-Gates neighborhood in Norwood last Friday night left four people injured, two of them with gunshot wounds.

Vicar Bob Rainis of Epiphany Lutheran Church, a former NYPD homicide detective, looked at the swollen face and battered body of Billy Murphy just hours before he died in mid-August and became convinced Murphy was the victim of a savage attack.

But a month after his death, police are now treating Murphy’s death as an accident, the result of a fall.

33rd State Senate District Results: Gustavo Rivera: 6,870 votes, 62.21%; Pedro Espada: 3,607, 32.66%; Daniel Padernacht, 567, 5.13%. Next: Rivera will face Republican John E. McCarthy and Green Party candidate John Reynolds. 78th Assembly District Results: Jose Rivera: 2,185 votes, 75.89%; Sergio Villaverde: 694, 24.11%. Next: Rivera faces William Sullivan, who is running on the Republican and Conservative tickets. 80th Assembly District Results: Naomi Rivera: 2,332 votes, 68.57%; Robert Giuffre: 1,069, 31.43%; Next: Rivera is up against Republican Joseph DeLuna and Conservative Robert Goodman. 81st Assembly District Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz didn’t face a primary opponent. Next: He goes up against

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Last Tuesday, 86th District Assemblyman Nelson Castro fought off a primary challenge from Hector Ramirez, a district leader who’d received the support of the Bronx Democratic Party, Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr., and several large unions.

In what was the tightest race in the borough, Castro secured 54 percent of the vote to Ramirez’s 46, giving him a 269 vote victory margin.

Voting machines that debuted on Sept. 14 caused a few bumps in the Democratic process last week, as poll workers – and voters – adjusted to the new system.