Democrat Wins Senate Special Election
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SYRACUSE — A Democratic assemblyman, Darrel Aubertine, upset Republican Will Barclay in a special election for the state Senate’s 48th district today.
The win moves the Democrats a step closer to controlling the Senate.
With 99% of the precincts reporting, Mr. Aubertine has 27,532 votes, or 52%, to 25,001 votes for Mr. Barclay, 48%.
Mr. Aubertine, a dairy farmer from Cape Vincent, was first elected to the 118th Assembly District in 2002. Mr. Barclay was elected the same year in the adjacent 124th Assembly District. His father, H. Douglas Barclay, served in the New York Senate between 1965 and 1984.
The two men were seeking to replace a Republican senator, Jim Wright, who retired in January after 15 years to take a consulting job.
