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NY governor live updates & state election results: Progressives credit Working Families Party for Kathy Hochul win
New York’s left flank of the Democratic Party are crediting the progressive Working Families Party for putting Gov. Kathy Hochul over the top in her tight race with Republican Lee Zeldin.
“Noteworthy: 4.6% of current votes cast for Hochul were on the @NYWFP line—quite nearly the margin of her victory thus far,” tweeted Daniel Altschuler, co-executive director of lefty group Make the Road New York and also former campaign director for failed lieutenant governor primary candidate Ana Maria Archila, who was endorsed by the WFP.
“The WFP can rightly take a lot of credit for ensuring Hochul’s victory with its robust #VoteWFP campaign.”
According to the State Board of Elections unofficial results, 4.34% of the vote for Hochul were won on the WFP’s ballot line.
Hochul beat Zeldin by roughly 5 percentage points, per the BOE.
