St. Lawrence County Elections Recap

Donald Trump improved on his 2020 margins in St. Lawrence County on Election Day – consistent with a strong night for Republicans nationally.

The president-elect won 58 percent of the vote this year, up from 54 percent in 2020, and his just-good-enough 50 percent in 2016. Most of the United States’s more than 3,000 counties are projected to have also shifted further to the right.

St. Lawrence County is also notable due to its Democratic history – having voted blue in every presidential election from 1992 to 2012. Republican Elise Stefanik won a sixth term in the House of Representatives with 60 percent of the county’s vote. It’s just her second time winning the county, the first being in the 2022 midterms.

However, Stefanik may not return to the house as she is reportedly being considered for a position in Trump’s cabinet. Stefanik has been a representative in the North Country since 2014.

At the state level, every race in St. Lawrence County was uncontested, meaning there was only one name on the ballot. Republicans Dan Stec and Mark Walczyk won their re-election campaigns for New York’s 49th and 45th state senate districts respectively.

In the state assembly races, Republican Scott Gray won the 116th district and Republican Kenneth Blankenbush won the 117th Republican Rachelle L. Foster won her uncontested race to become the next Canton Town Justice, Democrat Wayne Cuthbert secured a 3-year term on the Canton town council, and Democrat McLuckie won a one-year term as a Canton village trustee.

Results are still expected from early and absentee votes as there are currently about 1,600 ballots left to count.