1 vote
Governor. Blakeman 352, Hochul 351, write-in 2.
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Provisional Suffolk selection — Nassau ED comparison pending.
The photo-finish district. Three one-vote leads. One two-vote lead. All of them inside one map.
Brookhaven Election District 237, in Terryville, is a small machine for close counts. On the unofficial Suffolk report, the governor tally is 352–351. State Senate is 347–346. County comptroller is 346–345. The House contest is the roomy one: 348–346.
Those are margins inside one election district. They are not the margins deciding the contests. Senate District 1’s published Suffolk total is not a one-vote race. Neither is the House district, the county comptroller’s race, or the governor’s race in Suffolk, let alone statewide.
The precinct rows on this page were checked again November 8, 2026, at 6:14 p.m. EST, against Suffolk’s public results file. The governor precinct export’s compact breakdown was still 2,982,847 bytes, SHA-256 a37b48db594b6412ca8c16c330301b79ad6a8066af37dcb361732837f85a6876. That file still says it was last updated November 4, 2026, 12:24:37 AM EST, and that the results are not official. The public page’s own status line still reads 12:24:42 AM on that same November 4. On the countywide contests, zero of 1,070 precincts were fully reported, 1,067 were partial, and 3 were not reported. A later visit did not create a newer canvass.
Terryville, precinct 1237
The shapes are the official Suffolk County election-district layer, retrieved November 8, 2026. The purple district is Brookhaven ED 237. Its record says precinct ID 1237, municipality Terryville, Congressional District 1, Senate District 1, Assembly District 4, County Legislature 4. The layer’s last update on that record is March 27, 2026, 12:44:27 PM EDT. An older election’s ED 237 is not this polygon.
| District | Place | Precinct | Hochul | Blakeman | Write-in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ED 91 | Terryville | 1091 | 195 | 190 | 0 |
| ED 178 | Terryville | 1178 | 272 | 245 | 0 |
| ED 205 | Terryville | 1205 | 503 | 507 | 2 |
| ED 292 | Terryville | 1292 | 349 | 305 | 0 |
| ED 170 | Terryville | 1170 | 192 | 264 | 0 |
| ED 146 | Terryville | 1146 | 150 | 194 | 0 |
| ED 62 | Terryville | 1062 | 240 | 231 | 1 |
| ED 99 | Terryville | 1099 | 334 | 369 | 1 |
| ED 109 | Terryville | 1109 | 373 | 380 | 1 |
| ED 237 | Terryville | 1237 | 351 | 352 | 2 |
| ED 180 | Centereach | 1180 | 150 | 133 | 0 |
| ED 36 | Selden | 1036 | 274 | 246 | 1 |
| ED 75 | Selden | 1075 | 163 | 195 | 1 |
| ED 127 | Selden | 1127 | 203 | 176 | 1 |
| ED 250 | Selden | 1250 | 234 | 243 | 0 |
Place names are the municipality field on the county GIS record, not a guess from the outline. The polling-place id on the GIS record is 0308. Town district is 1. This page does not name a street for the district.
Four district margins, and only four
Each number is the difference between the two nominees after every fusion line is added to that nominee. Write-ins are not given to either side. “One vote” is that difference. It is not a statistical test, and it is not the margin of the contest outside this district.
1 vote
State Senate 1. Palumbo 347, Murray 346, write-in 0.
1 vote
County comptroller. Losquadro 346, Estreich 345, write-in 0.
2 votes
U.S. House 1. Gallant 348, LaLota 346, write-in 0.
Governor and lieutenant governor
352 Blakeman · 351 Hochul
- Bruce A Blakeman and Todd Hood: Republican 313, Conservative 33, Vote Affordable 6. Sum 352.
- Kathy C Hochul and Adrienne E Adams: Democratic 342, Working Families 9. Sum 351.
- Write-in 2. Two-nominee votes 703. Reported candidate votes 705.
State Senate, 1st District
347 Palumbo · 346 Murray
- Anthony H Palumbo: Republican 310, Conservative 37. Sum 347.
- E Christopher Murray: Democratic 332, Working Families 14. Sum 346.
- Write-in 0. Two-nominee votes 693.
Suffolk County comptroller
346 Losquadro · 345 Estreich
- Daniel P Losquadro: Republican 312, Conservative 34. Sum 346.
- Jon Estreich: Democratic 345. Sum 345.
- Write-in 0. Two-nominee votes 691.
U.S. House, 1st District
348 Gallant · 346 LaLota
- Christopher J Gallant, Democratic 348.
- Nicholas J LaLota: Republican 309, Conservative 37. Sum 346.
- Write-in 0. Two-nominee votes 694. The two-vote lead belongs to the Democratic nominee. The published district total below does not.
Three lines on the same ballot are not coin tosses
Four of the seven single-seat major-party contests in this district land within two votes, each with at least 691 two-nominee votes. The other three do not. That is why the district is interesting: the photo finishes are real, and they are not the whole ballot.
State comptroller · 60 votes
377 DiNapoli · 317 Hernandez
- Thomas P DiNapoli: Democratic 357, Working Families 20. Joseph Hernandez: Republican 286, Conservative 31. Write-in 0.
Assembly 4 · 27 votes
359 Kassay · 332 Sussman
- Rebecca A Kassay, Democratic 359. Will Sussman: Republican 295, Conservative 37. Write-in 0.
Attorney general · 16 votes
355 James · 339 Komatireddy
- Letitia A James: Democratic 339, Working Families 16. Saritha Komatireddy: Republican 305, Conservative 34. Write-in 0.
The district margin is not the race margin
Suffolk’s own contest totals, from the same unofficial file, summed across the precincts that file contains. Senate, Assembly, and House totals are the Suffolk publication of those contests. They are still partial: none of these precincts is marked fully reported. They are not a projection, and the governor total is Suffolk only.
| Contest | Inside ED 237 | Suffolk file, this contest |
|---|---|---|
| Governor | Blakeman by 1 (352–351, write-in 2) | Hochul 270,778, Blakeman 266,738, write-in 711. Hochul by 4,040. |
| State Senate 1 | Palumbo by 1 (347–346) | Murray 62,408, Palumbo 58,344, write-in 47. Murray by 4,064. |
| County comptroller | Losquadro by 1 (346–345) | Losquadro 265,160, Estreich 258,612, write-in 602. Losquadro by 6,548. |
| U.S. House 1 | Gallant by 2 (348–346) | LaLota 152,546, Gallant 145,869, write-in 170. LaLota by 6,677. |
| Assembly 4 | Kassay by 27 (359–332) | Kassay 25,574, Sussman 18,530, write-in 28. Kassay by 7,044. |
| Attorney general | James by 16 (355–339) | James 267,372, Komatireddy 262,082, write-in 266. James by 5,290. |
| State comptroller | DiNapoli by 60 (377–317) | DiNapoli 288,432, Hernandez 239,769, write-in 580. DiNapoli by 48,663. |
Three of the photo finishes point the other way from the published Suffolk-file total. Blakeman leads ED 237 by one. Hochul leads the governor total in this file by 4,040. Palumbo leads ED 237 by one. Murray leads the Senate 1 total in this file by 4,064. Gallant leads ED 237 by two. LaLota leads the House 1 total in this file by 6,677. County comptroller is the photo finish that points the same way: Losquadro leads the district by one and the Suffolk file by 6,548. These are Suffolk-file comparisons, not statewide totals. That is the sentence worth keeping: a one-vote district is not a one-vote election.
Why this district, under a rule that can be rerun
Count the single-seat contests that have both a Democratic and a Republican nominee and a two-nominee margin of two votes or fewer, provided each of those contests, and the governor contest, has at least 300 two-nominee votes. The contests in the count are governor, state comptroller, attorney general, U.S. House, State Senate, Assembly, and Suffolk County comptroller. Unopposed races, multi-seat races, and propositions stay out. If two districts tie on the count, take the one with more two-nominee governor votes.
On the official precinct export retrieved November 8, only two Suffolk districts have four such finishes: Brookhaven ED 237 and Brookhaven ED 242. ED 237 has 703 two-nominee governor votes. ED 242 has 605. That is the whole tie-break. It is not a claim of statistical significance. The same pair, with 237 ahead on governor votes, is what the count produces at minimums of 200, 300, 400, and 500.
The next count is three, not four. The first of those, by governor votes, is Brookhaven ED 44 in Ronkonkoma, precinct 1044. Governor: Hochul 201 (Democratic 190, Working Families 11), Blakeman 199 (Republican 177, Conservative 20, Vote Affordable 2), write-in 0. House 1: Gallant 198, LaLota 197 (Republican 175, Conservative 22), write-in 0. Assembly 5: Victoria A Russell 196, Douglas M Smith 197 (Republican 172, Conservative 25), write-in 0. It is the next tier. It is not the selection.
The other district with four, and two different stories
Brookhaven ED 242, Selden, precinct 1242
Also four finishes of two votes or fewer, and the loser of the governor-volume tie-break, 605 to 703. Two of the four are exact nominee ties. Attorney general: Letitia A James 300 (Democratic 274, Working Families 26) and Saritha Komatireddy 300 (Republican 258, Conservative 42), write-in 0. Assembly 5: Victoria A Russell 297 and Douglas M Smith 297 (Republican 257, Conservative 40), write-in 1. Senate 3: Antonio Vargas-Ayala 299, Dean Murray 297 (Republican 261, Conservative 36), write-in 2. County comptroller: Jon Estreich 297, Daniel P Losquadro 295 (Republican 254, Conservative 41), write-in 0. Governor is not one of the four: Hochul 300 (Democratic 279, Working Families 21), Blakeman 305 (Republican 264, Conservative 34, Vote Affordable 7), write-in 2. Five votes, not one. The GIS municipality is Selden. Senate district 3, Assembly district 5, still Congressional District 1.
Babylon ED 79, Deer Park, precinct 4079
A governor tie, which is a different story from the four-finish count. Hochul 344 (Democratic 327, Working Families 17), Blakeman 344 (Republican 304, Conservative 34, Vote Affordable 6), write-in 1. Reported candidate votes on that line: 689. House 2 in this district is not a two-vote finish: Andrew R Garbarino 337 (Republican 296, Conservative 41), Patrick Halpin 333 (Democratic 314, Working Families 19), write-in 0. Four votes, and outside the rule that selected ED 237. The GIS municipality is Deer Park.
Huntington ED 139, Dix Hills, precinct 2139
The largest governor-to-comparison share gap in the Suffolk snapshot among districts with at least 300 two-nominee votes, and not a photo finish. Governor: Blakeman 176 (Republican 163, Conservative 12, Vote Affordable 1), Hochul 170 (Democratic 167, Working Families 3), write-in 2. Assembly 10: Steve Stern 223, Tiffany L LeGrow 126 (Republican 117, Conservative 9), write-in 0. Democratic share of the two-nominee vote: 49.13% for governor, 63.90% for Assembly, a difference of 14.76 points. Governor two-nominee votes: 346, so the district drops out if the minimum is raised to 400. The GIS municipality is Dix Hills. This is an alternate way to be interesting. It is not third on the close-count list.
Nassau is still a county total, not a map of districts
The Nassau County Board’s public report, retrieved November 8, 2026, is the same nine-page unofficial summary stamped November 5, 2026, 8:50:53 p.m. It says 1,083 of 1,083 precincts and 538,876 ballots cast. It reports contest totals. It does not report an election district. A county total cannot be turned into an ED result, and a missing ED is not a zero.
For scale only, that county summary’s governor total is Hochul 267,178 (Democratic 256,654 and Working Families 10,524), Blakeman 265,601 (Republican 245,828, Conservative 17,253, Vote Affordable 2,520), write-in 619. That is a county total. It is not a substitute for the missing Nassau election-district file, and it is not part of the Suffolk ranking.
Until Nassau publishes election-district returns that can be compared under the same rule, the title on this page is a Suffolk nomination with the Nassau comparison still open. The Nassau district page says the same thing about what the county has and has not released.
What this page cannot conclude
- It cannot say the same voter cast the one-vote margins. A 352 and a 347 are different contests. They are not evidence that the same people split a ballot, and they are not a list of ticket-splitters.
- It cannot say why a count landed on one vote. No demographic story, no household story, and no motive is available from these tallies.
- It cannot report turnout. Registered voters for this district are not in the matched file. The figures are reported candidate votes.
- It cannot compare this ED 237 with a district of the same number in another year. The GIS record was last updated March 27, 2026. The number is not a promise that the boundary stood still.
- It cannot call any contest. Zero precincts in the Suffolk file are fully reported. The one-vote leads can move when the partial reports are completed. They may also stand. This page does not know which.
Method, sources, and the clock
The Suffolk order was recomputed on November 8 from the official precinct breakdown of all 24 single-seat major-party contests in the county’s 2026 general-election file: governor, state comptroller, attorney general, three House contests, five Senate contests, twelve Assembly contests, and county comptroller. 1,070 election districts are in that export. The file’s lastUpdated value is 2026-11-04T05:24:37.9924553Z, which is 12:24:37 AM EST. isOfficialResults is false. If that export changes, the four-finish count has to be run again. ED 237 does not keep the title by having held it once.
“Most interesting” is the name of the page, not a measurement of every reader’s curiosity. The rule is the close-count rule above. The Dix Hills card is the other rule, a share-gap rule, and it is labeled as that.
Sources
- Suffolk public results, 2026 general election: enhancedvoting.com, GE2026_20261028145605. Precinct breakdowns were read from that election’s public ballot-item export on November 8, 2026. The governor ballot item is
01000000-d6c5-0591-a15e-08df2faefeb2. Its compact breakdown SHA-256 isa37b48db594b6412ca8c16c330301b79ad6a8066af37dcb361732837f85a6876, rechecked at 6:14 p.m. EST. The export’slastUpdatedwas still November 4, 2026, 12:24:37 AM EST. - Suffolk GIS, voter-information precincts, precinct 1237 and the neighbors drawn here: FeatureServer/1. The saved extract is
site/data/most-interesting-ed/suffolk-terryville-neighbors.geojson. - Nassau’s county summary, still without election districts: app.nassaucountyny.gov/BOE/results/election2.html. SHA-256 of the file retrieved November 8:
e7880182e74b8c5e2bdd051d398bff5b3af45eacb90466bb9841491a32a818e2. - The results map for Suffolk, which is the default county on that page: how each election district voted. The city story, a separate editorial rule: The Most Interesting ED in NYC.