SUFFOLK
Election officials finished counting about 4,600 absentee ballots today, allowing for a final tally of results in the mayor’s race.
The new numbers didn’t change the order of how the seven candidates finished.
The winner, Linda Johnson, squeaked by Dwight Nixon in absentee ballots by a count of 1,140 to 1,131, adding to her sizeable lead from Tuesday night.
Unofficially, Johnson finished with 37 percent of the vote to Nixon’s 22 percent. Following them were Tom Powell with 17 percent, Mike Debranski with 13 percent, Andy Damiani with 5 percent and Roger Leonard with 4 percent.
Suffolk residents cast about 35,300 votes in the mayor’s race, in the first time the position was decided by an election and not by a vote of City Council members.
About 800 votes, or 2 percent, went to a write-in candidate. Those names have not been reported, but many presumably went to Deborah Wahlstrom, the Republican endorsee who ran a write-in campaign after she narrowly missed having enough signatures to make the ballot.
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