Suozzi has slight lead over Mangano (237 votes) (Nassau, NY)

Source: Newsday

THOMAS R SUOZZI D 107,777
THOMAS R SUOZZI I 6,735
THOMAS R SUOZZI W 3,599 118,111
EDWARD P MANGANO R 112,340
EDWARD P MANGANO X 5,534 117,874
STEVEN HANSEN C 9,552

Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi is in the fight for his political life, as poll results Tuesday night show him with a tiny lead over challenger Edward Mangano.

With all precincts reporting, Suozzi, a Glen Cove Democrat, leads Mangano, a Republican from Bethpage, by 237 votes, according to the Nassau Board of Elections. The two contenders traded the lead back and forth throughout the night as elections officials counted votes.

While the Suozzi-Mangano race headlines Long Island's election night, voters were to decide winners in a variety of county, town and city races.

Local candidates spent the day closely monitoring turnout, which political leaders expected to reach about 30 percent in Nassau County and 23 percent in Suffolk.

Nassau Democratic chairman Jay Jacobs forecast trouble for Suozzi at 6 p.m., when he said more voters than he hoped were turning out in the county's GOP districts, while traditionally Democratic precincts were not meeting expectations.
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This is a huge story. This shouldn't have been even close. The Dems in this area didn't run very hard and it looks like that caused a problem. The Dems also lost the county comptroller and the legislature. It was 10-9 Dems. It will be 10-9 or 11-8 republicans. This will be a big wake up to the stagnent Nassau County Democratic Committee.