Adriano Espaillat Wins NY Congressional District 13

UPPER MANHATTAN, NY — Residents of New York's 13th Congressional District took to the polls Tuesday to vote for their representatives in state and federal offices during this year's midterm election.

Democrat Adriano Espiallat is expected to defeated Republican challenger Jineea Butler in a less-than-surprising result, New York 1 first reported. Early returns show Espaillat captured about 95 percent of the vote compared to Butler's less than 5 percent, according to unofficial results as reported by New York 1.

The 13th Congressional District spans the Harlem, Washington Heights and Inwood neighborhoods in Manhattan as well as parts of the Bronx. Espaillat has represented the area since 2017 after succeeding long-time Congressman Charles Rangel.

City dwellers packed public schools, apartment lobbies and places of worship to form massive lines as they cast ballots in Tuesday's midterm elections. Reports from many polling sites indicated an unusually high turnout for a non-presidential election.

Lines in some places stretched around the buildings where voting booths were set up, even in neighborhoods with no contested elections. Voters waiting outside PS 163 on the Upper West Side lined a full block between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues, a video posted to Twitter shows.

Despite the high turnout, the scene at many poll sites was bleak due to horrible weather and a general sense of dysfunction in how the election was managed. New Yorkers encountered widespread problems with the machines used to record their votes in Tuesday's midterm elections, adding to long waits caused by unusually high turnout. City officials blamed wet ballots on a rainy Election Day for jamming up scanning machines at dozens of poll sites in at least four boroughs.

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