Republican Anthony F. Morelli won Clifton Park’s town/county supervisor seat on Nov. 3, beating Democrat Ram Mohan Lalukota 9,223 to 8,400 in unofficial results. The seat belongs to Phil Barrett, the Board of Supervisors chairman, who was not on the ballot this year.
Lalukota already sits on the county board in Clifton Park’s other seat, the county supervisor post, and gave it up to run for this one. That meant both of Clifton Park’s county seats were open, and voters will send two new supervisors to the board in January.
Quick Facts
- Office
- Clifton Park town/county supervisor
- Winner
- Anthony F. Morelli (Republican, Conservative, Vote Affordable)
- Runner-up
- Ram Mohan Lalukota (Democratic, Working Families)
- Result
- 9,223 to 8,400 (52.3% to 47.7%)
- Margin
- 823 votes, 4.7 points
- Status
- Unofficial; absentee, military and affidavit ballots not yet added
- Takes office
- Jan. 1, 2027
THE RESULTS
Morelli took 52.3 percent of the votes cast for candidates, a margin of 823 votes, or 4.7 points. That made it the second-closest supervisor race in the county, behind only Milton. All 204 election districts countywide reported on election night, according to the county’s unofficial results.
Clifton Park: Town/County Supervisor
Bars split by party line. Unofficial.
Anthony F. Morelli ✓Republican, Conservative
9,223 (52.3%)
Ram Mohan LalukotaDemocratic, Working Families
8,400 (47.7%)
Write-ins
14
Left blank (undervotes)
281
RepublicanConservativeDemocraticWorking FamiliesWrite-ins and blanks
Source: Saratoga County Board of Elections, unofficial results, 204 of 204 precincts, Nov. 3, 2026; party lines from the county's Sept. 8, 2026 ballot certification
Anthony F. Morelli beat Ram Mohan Lalukota, 9,223 to 8,400. Write-ins: 14. Left blank: 281. Overvotes: 3.
Clifton Park cast 17,921 ballots, the most of any town with a supervisor race. With 823 votes separating the candidates, the absentee, military and affidavit ballots still to be counted are unlikely to change the winner, but they could narrow or widen the final margin.
HOW THE VOTE BROKE DOWN
Morelli’s Republican line produced 7,823 votes and the Conservative line added 1,400, according to the county’s line-by-line count. He also appeared on the Vote Affordable line, which recorded no votes. Lalukota drew 7,681 votes on the Democratic line and 719 on the Working Families line.
The Conservative line was the difference. Morelli’s Republican votes alone trailed Lalukota’s two-line total, but his 1,400 Conservative votes put him over the top. Voters also cast 14 write-ins, and 281 Clifton Park ballots left the race blank.
The Route 146 roundabout at Vischer Ferry Road in Clifton Park, the county’s largest town. (Photo: Tyler A. McNeil, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
HOW IT COMPARES
The chart below ranks every contested town race in Saratoga County by the gap between winner and runner-up. Clifton Park’s town/county race was one of three decided by less than 5 points, along with Milton’s supervisor race and the town of Saratoga’s justice race.
Winning margin in every contested town race in Saratoga County
Percentage points between the winner and runner-up, share of votes cast for candidates. Unofficial.
Ballston supervisor2,274 votes
47.0 pts
Northumberland highway supt.677 votes
36.0 pts
Moreau supervisor1,388 votes
22.5 pts
Wilton supervisor966 votes
12.6 pts
Clifton Park county supervisor1,527 votes
8.7 pts
Saratoga supervisor205 votes
8.3 pts
Malta supervisor581 votes
7.6 pts
Greenfield town justice258 votes
7.5 pts
Clifton Park town/county supervisor823 votes
4.7 pts
Saratoga town justice103 votes
4.4 pts
Milton supervisor147 votes
1.9 pts
This raceOther contested races
Source: Saratoga County Board of Elections, unofficial results, 204 of 204 precincts, Nov. 3, 2026
Margins are from the county’s unofficial election night count and can shift as absentee, military and affidavit ballots are added.
Each Clifton Park supervisor casts 19,014.5 weighted votes on the county board, according to the county’s weighted-vote schedule. Only Halfmoon’s supervisor carries more. Together the two Clifton Park seats hold about 16 percent of the board’s 235,509 weighted votes.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
Morelli takes office Jan. 1, 2027, alongside Democrat Martin C. O’Connor, who won Clifton Park’s other county seat. The board will pick a new chairman at its January organizational meeting, since Barrett will no longer hold a seat once his successor is sworn in.
For results in every Saratoga County race, plus the officials who represent each town, visit PagPol’s Saratoga County page or subscribe to the Saratoga County newsletter. PagPol will update these results when the county adds absentee, military and affidavit ballots and certifies the count.
