Residents went to the polls on Tuesday and re-elected Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi, who touted the county's big fiscal turnaround during his four years in office. Obviously, voters agreed with him as the county executive received nearly 60 percent of the vote over Republican challenger Greg Peterson.

Amid speculation that Suozzi will also run for governor in January, he received a vote of confidence from voters and now will hit the ground running. One of his first goals in his new term will be to attempt to lessen the burden of school taxes on Nassau residents.

With Suozzi as the Democratic county executive, he will once again be working with a Democratic legislature as the Democrats maintained the 10-9 majority. However, two Republicans, Vincent Muscarella and John Ciotti, held onto their seats. Muscarella won easily over Democratic challenger Joan Hazleton. Ciotti, however, won by a slim margin over Democratic challenger Ali Mirza. In other local legislative elections, Democrat Roger Corbin retained his seat.

In the Town of Hempstead, Republican incumbent Kate Murray and Democratic challenger Harvey Levinson, who is also the county assessor, engaged in a spirited campaign for supervisor. Levinson attacked Murray on taxes and illegal housing while Murray blamed high taxes on the changes in assessment. In the end, the voters decided to re-elect Murray, the only woman supervisor in Town of Hempstead history.

The town clerk, Mark Bonilla, won his re-election bid.

In other county races, Democratic incumbent Howard Weitzman was re-elected county comptroller. He was challenged by Republican Don Clavin, who is the town receiver of taxes, a role he will keep.

Assemblywoman Maureen O'Connell will no longer be called assemblywoman. That's because the Republican was successful in her bid for county clerk.

Perhaps the biggest surprise on Election Day came in the race for district attorney. Democratic Kathleen Rice unseated longtime district attorney, Republican Denis Dillon, who had been district attorney for the past 30 years.