Incumbent Assemblyman Al Stirpe has beaten back challenger Rob DeMarco by a margin of 22,308 to 19,772.
Stirpe, a Democrat, held the 127th Assembly District seat from 2006 to 2010 and retook it from Don Miller in 2012. DeMarco, a former Onondaga County assistant district attorney, has never run for office before.
Stirpe said he was “relieved” to be reelected to a fourth term. He said negative campaign ads from DeMarco, a Republican, were personal attacks “based on no facts at all” and did not have anything to do with issues in Central New York.
Stirpe said he is looking forward to working on the Women’s Equality Act and obtaining a $5 billion bond to improve infrastructure in the state. He said most of the state’s budget surplus should go toward fixing roads, bridges and sewers.
“If we don’t maintain the infrastructure, we’ll lose the advantages we have as a region,” Stirpe said.
For his part, DeMarco wished Stirpe the best in returning to office.
“We did everything we wanted, we just came up a little short,” DeMarco said. “In the end, what really matters is not whether an ‘R’ wins or a ‘D’ wins, it’s the people of this district.”
The district encompasses the towns of Clay and Cicero and part of the town of Manlius.
