Incumbents reign in Southwest Brooklyn
The electorate may be angry across the country, but Southwest Brooklyn voters opted to stay with the tried and true and decided to keep incumbents in office.
All of the local incumbents running to keep their seats in the State Legislative kept them.
In the State Assembly, Democrat Alec Brook-Krasny, representing the 46th Assembly District (Bay Ridge-Dyker Heights-Coney Island-Brighton Beach) defeated Republican challenger Stamatis Lilikakis 58.3 percent to 41.1 percent. Brook-Krasny earned 8,512 votes while Lilikakis, a first time candidate, had 6,089 votes.
Two other incumbents whose districts include parts of Bay Ridge, Republican-Conservative Nicole Malliotakis and Democrat Felix Oritz, cruised to victory in their respective races.