For Shelter Island Town Supervisor, challenger Gordon Gooding beat incumbent Gerry Siller 261 to 128 in Tuesday’s Democratic Primary, according to unofficial results. Voters picked Benjamin Dyett (285) and Albert Dickson (276) to represent the party for two seats on the Town Board.
Bert Waife, the third Town Board candidate in the race for two seats, garnered 140 votes.
The Board of Elections issued about 50 absentee ballots, a number insufficient to change the outcome. Several affidavit ballots were reportedly issued, but again, not in numbers significant enough to alter the result.
The BOE posted the unofficial counts Tuesday around 9:45 PM; official numbers will come after all absentee and affidavit ballots are counted and the results certified.
Along with Gooding and Dickson, Dyett — Tuesday’s top vote-getter — ran a campaign they called “A Better Island For All.”
Reached late Tuesday, Dyett said, “The whole team at A Better Island For All is grateful for all the support and thankful to all the people who worked with us and who voted for us.”
The party posted on its website, “Thank you, Shelter Island. We are grateful for your faith in us.”
On the ballot in November
There was no Republican primary for the local races.
For a two-year term as Supervisor, the party has picked Deputy Supervisor Amber Brach-Williams, an accountant who has served on the Town Board since 2017. If she wins, the Town Board may decide to appoint a successor to fill out the time remaining in her term.
For four-year terms on the Town Board, Dyett and Dickson will face Republican candidates Tom Cronin, a retired Shelter Island police officer, and Arthur Williams, a real estate broker and accountant active in the Chamber of Commerce who was Shelter Island Town Supervisor from 2002 to 2005. Williams is the ex-husband of the deputy supervisor and her former business partner.
Republican voters choose Stark for 1st LD
Island Republicans cast votes in a primary race for the Suffolk County 1st Legislative District, with 59 selecting the party’s designee, Catherine L. Stark, of Riverhead, and 19 voting for Southold businessman Greg Williams, according to unofficial results.
They were vying for a spot on the ticket for the seat long held by Democrat Al Krupski, who is running for Southold Town Supervisor.
Across the district, Stark, who served as a legislative aide to Krupski, beat Williams 1,350 to 810. In November, she’ll face Democrat Catherine Kent, a former Riverhead Councilwoman.
