As I make my rounds around New Rochelle, I keep getting questions about this year’s elections in New Rochelle, so I put together a preview for Election Day – November 3, 2015. Please mark your calendar and make sure your voice is heard. Unfortunately, the odd year elections have the lowest turnout – less than one-third of the registered voters show up at the polls. In the odd years, we elect our county legislators and city and town representatives – all very important elections. You will find our city’s contested elections below.

COUNTY LEGISLATOR

New Rochelle has three County Legislator seats and all three incumbents (listed first) are running for re-election. I provided links to the maps for each district:

District 7: Catherine Parker (D) vs Susan Watson (R)
Map: http://goo.gl/MLGgzh
District 10: Sheila Marcotte (R) vs Haina Just-Michael (D)
Map: http://goo.gl/i7rbIQ
District 11: Jim Maisano (R) is unopposed. (Yes, it’s me).
Map: http://goo.gl/v3wfhp

Note – all 17 County Legislator seats across the county have elections this year.

CITY COUNCIL

We have a contested Mayor election this year – the incumbent Noam Bramson is running on the Democrat line and is being challenged by James O’Toole running on the Independence line.

There are three contested City Council races (Incumbents listed first and maps of each district provided):

District 1 – Lou Trangucci (R) vs Luis Zepeda (D)
Map: http://www.newrochelleny.com/DocumentView.aspx?DID=886

District 5 – Barry Fertel (D) vs Jeffrey Hastie (R)
Map: http://www.newrochelleny.com/DocumentView.aspx?DID=890

District 6 – Shari Rackman (R) vs Liz Fried (D)
Map: http://www.newrochelleny.com/DocumentView.aspx?DID=891

Three members of the City Council are running for re-election unopposed: Al Tarantino, Jared Rice and Ivar Hyden.

Please follow the elections, review the candidates and make sure you vote on November 3 – only three weeks from today.

County Legislator
Jim Maisano
914-636-1621
CtyLegJimMaisano@gmail.com