More than 420,000 total ballots were cast across Long Island in nine days of early voting and on Election Day, according to unofficial results from both counties' boards of election.
In Nassau, where voters went to the polls to decide the contests of county executive, district attorney, comptroller and clerk, there were 309,824 ballots counted.
In Suffolk, with two uncontested races at the top of the countywide ticket — district attorney and sheriff — 110,306 total ballots were cast, according to data posted on the county's election board website. Those numbers do not include absentee ballots dropped off or postmarked by Election Day.
As of Tuesday night, Republican incumbent Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman had captured 171,113 votes, or 56%, compared with his Democratic challeng

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