Election 2025: Voters will call the shots on Nov. 4

Here is a look at the seats up for grabs on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, and who hopes to fill them.

Pound Ridge supervisor, 2 Town Board seats in play

Pound Ridge’s top job — town supervisor — is up for grabs.

Democrat Kevin Hansan, in his eighth year as supervisor, is challenged by John McCown of the Pound Ridge Party. 

The Pound Ridge Party also is fielding two candidates for Town Board — Peter Avellino and Ron Asaro — who are challenging incumbent Democrats Diane Briggs and Daniel Paschkes.

Running unopposed for receiver of taxes is Drifa Segal, a Democrat. Also running unopposed for town justice is Democratic incumbent Renee Motola.

Mount Kisco contested trustees’ race tops election

The reelection bids for Deputy Mayor Theresa Flora and Trustee Angie Garcia-Guerra is the race to watch in Mount Kisco as they hope to fend off a challenge from Democratic candidates Heather Bryant and Tammy Brown.

Flora and Garcia-Guerra, who are running on the Republican and the independent Village Inclusive Party lines, are joined by Mayor J. Michael Cindrich, who is also seeking reelection but is unopposed. Cindrich is seeking a second consecutive term after six years on the sidelines following a 14-year tenure as mayor. 

The trio swept the village election two years ago over a different Democratic ticket competing on only the Village Inclusive Party line.

One of two village justices, Anthony Markus, is unopposed.

Also on the ballot, five of the seven Library Board of Trustees seats are up for election, which includes three full three-year terms. The other two seats are for a one-year and a two-year unexpired term to replace members who are leaving their posts early.

The League of Women Voters of Westchester County lists all of the races as open to write-in candidates.

Lewisboro has 2 Town Board seats up for grabs

Lewisboro Supervisor Tony Gonçalves, in office for four years, is unchallenged. He is on the Democratic and Working Party lines of the ballot.

On the Town Board, incumbent Democrat Mary Shah and incumbent Republican Andrea Rendo are seeking reelection; also running for those seats are Democrat Julia Hadlock and Republican Adam Giardina. Hadlock and Shah also are on the Working Families line. Rendo and Giardina also are on the Conservative Party line.

Receiver of Taxes Deirdre Casper, who is on the Democratic, Republican and Conservative party lines, is unchallenged.

All Bedford town candidates unopposed

In Bedford, the election is uncontested, with only Democratic candidates on the ballot. 

Supervisor Ellen Calves, Town Board member Stephanie McCaine and Town Justice Jodi Kimmel have all served in their positions since 2022. Town Clerk Alexandra Whalen was appointed to fill the position in April 2024, after Lisbeth Fumagalli stepped down, and was elected to fill the remainder of that term in November. All are also on the Working Families line.

The only new candidate is Midge Iorio, running for the Town Board seat now held by Andrés Castillo, who is not running.

Bedford libraries ballotproposition

A proposition asks Bedford voters whether or not to approve annual funding for the operating budgets of the town’s three libraries totaling $2,628,845. This public support will be guaranteed in future years and will replace the town’s current budget appropriation.

Under amounts agreed to by the three libraries, Bedford Hills Free Library is to receive $810,058; Bedford Free Library, $766,999; and Katonah Village Library, $1,051,788.

If approved, the residential property tax rate will increase by $1.39 per $1,000 of assessed value, an increase of $97 per year for the median residential property. 

— By staff reports

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County executive, judges, state proposition on ballot

By MARTIN WILBUR

Voters who step inside their local polling place during this year’s general election will find a full ballot of Westchester County seats and a couple of New York State-related items to consider.

In addition to races for most municipal boards and all 17 county Board of Legislators’ terms expiring, Democrat County Executive Ken Jenkins, of Yonkers, is running to secure a full term. He is once again opposed by Westchester’s Republican Deputy Election Commissioner Christine Sculti. Jenkins easily defeated Sculti, of Mamaroneck, in a February special election to complete Congressman George Latimer’s unexpired term, following Latimer’s victory last year for the 16th Congressional District seat. Sculti also lost to Latimer in 2021.

For this cycle only, the county executive’s term will be three years, to get it on track for future even-year elections as the state law pushing most local and county contests to coincide with state and federal elections takes effect. Elections in villages and cities are exempt from the new law as well as judges’ races.

There are also several other county elections that voters are being asked to decide. With longtime County Clerk Timothy Idoni retiring from the post, Republican Sheila Marcotte, an Eastchester councilwoman and former county legislator, is taking on outgoing White Plains Mayor Thomas Roach for the post. Roach will appear on the Democratic and Working Family lines.

The public will also weigh three county judgeships. Democrat Erin McGoey, who has served as a Greenburgh Town Justice since 2022, is vying for a Westchester County Court judge seat against Republican Joseph. Farca. Farca is an attorney who has experience as a litigator in state and federal courts specializing in real estate issues and ran unsuccessfully for the state Supreme Court’s Ninth Judicial District in 2022.

A county Family Court judge seat is contested between Democrat Emily Rubin and Republican Jeanmarie Marquardt. Rubin has practiced civil litigation and family and matrimonial law for more than 25 years, currently working for the New York City law firm Garr Silpe. Marquardt has also practiced family and matrimonial law for 24 years and has been with Trivella & Forte LLP in White Plains.

Democrat Brandon Sall is running unopposed for Surrogate’s Court judge, a seat he has held for nearly 10 years.

All county court judge terms are 10 years and have a $232,600 salary.

State Supreme Court

Eight candidates are contesting the four state Supreme Court seats that are up for election this year in the Ninth Judicial District. Two incumbents, John Collins Jr. and Verris Shako, are running for reelection on the Conservative and Democratic lines. They are joined on both lines by Diane Clerkin while Desmond Lyons appears only as a Democrat.

The Republican candidates are Raymond Raiche, Thomas Humbach, George Smith and Kiel Van Horn. Raiche also captured a Conservative Party endorsement.

All state Supreme Court justices run for 14-year terms, and earn a $219,200 salary. The Ninth Judicial District covers Westchester, Orange, Putnam, Rockland and Dutchess counties.

Statewide proposition

There is one statewide proposition on the ballot for voters. A constitutional amendment has been proposed that would authorize the state to use up to 323 of the 1,039 acres in upstate Essex County that is currently designated as a constitutionally protected forest preserve for construction, operation and maintenance of Nordic skiing and biathlon trails and a stadium for training and events and related facilities. 

The land lost to the complex would be exchanged for at least 2,500 acres of forest land in the Adirondack Park. The sport complex is state-owned and operated and is managed by the Olympic Regional Development Authority.