Rep. Lee Zeldin won a decisive victory in the First Congressional District Tuesday, according to unofficial results published by the Suffolk County Board of Elections.
Zeldin polled 59 percent of the vote to challenger Anna Throne-Holst’s 41 percent, with 463 out of 473 election districts reporting.
Voters in the five East End towns approved the extension of the 2-percent real estate transfer tax by an overwhelming majority. The ballot proposition extending Community Preservation Fund through 2050 and allowing the expenditure of up to 20 percent of CPF revenues on water quality projects won approval with 78 percent of the vote, 40,301 to 11,207.
Incumbent state legislators Ken LaValle (with 67 percent), Anthony Palumbo (with 68 percent) and Fred Thiele (with 62 percent) cruised to re-election.
In Riverhead, voters soundly rejected a proposition to extend the town supervisor’s term to four years: 65 percent to 35 percent.
