Overview

• Smyth secured 62% of the vote in the Huntington Republican primary, defeating challenger Brooke Lupinacci.
• Wehrheim topped challenger Robert Trotta with 56% in Smithtown’s supervisor contest.
• Voter turnout reached about 12%, matching typical primary rates on a day with record-setting heat that led staff to distribute fans and water at polling sites.
• The Huntington race centered on a proposed mixed-use overlay district in Melville that Lupinacci opposed over density concerns.
• Richard Renna and Salvatore Formica also won Suffolk GOP nominations for legislative districts 14 and 13.