Democrat Martin C. O’Connor won Clifton Park’s county supervisor seat on Nov. 3, beating Republican Chad M. Gregory 9,509 to 7,982 in unofficial Saratoga County results. The win keeps the seat on the Democratic line after Ram Mohan Lalukota left it to run for the town’s other board seat.
Clifton Park sends two supervisors to the county board. This year both seats were open, because board chairman Phil Barrett was not on the ballot for the town/county seat and Lalukota ran for that post instead, losing to Republican Anthony F. Morelli.
Quick Facts
- Office
- Clifton Park county supervisor
- Winner
- Martin C. O'Connor (Democratic, Working Families)
- Runner-up
- Chad M. Gregory (Republican, Conservative, Vote Affordable)
- Result
- 9,509 to 7,982 (54.4% to 45.6%)
- Margin
- 1,527 votes, 8.7 points
- Status
- Unofficial; absentee, military and affidavit ballots not yet added
- Takes office
- Jan. 1, 2027
THE RESULTS
O’Connor won 54.4 percent of the votes cast for candidates, a margin of 1,527 votes, or 8.7 points. He ran on the Democratic and Working Families lines, while Gregory ran on the Republican, Conservative and Vote Affordable lines, according to the county’s ballot certification.
Clifton Park: County Supervisor
Bars split by party line. Unofficial.
Martin C. O'Connor ✓Democratic, Working Families
9,509 (54.4%)
Chad M. GregoryRepublican, Conservative
7,982 (45.6%)
Write-ins
12
Left blank (undervotes)
416
DemocraticWorking FamiliesRepublicanConservativeWrite-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
Martin C. O’Connor beat Chad M. Gregory, 9,509 to 7,982. Write-ins: 12. Left blank: 416. Overvotes: 2.
The result split Clifton Park’s delegation: one Republican and one Democrat. Clifton Park cast 17,921 ballots, more than any other town, according to the county’s unofficial results. Absentee, military and affidavit ballots will be added before certification later in November.
HOW THE VOTE BROKE DOWN
O’Connor’s Democratic line carried 8,658 votes and the Working Families line added 851. Gregory drew 6,753 votes on the Republican line and 1,229 on the Conservative line, while the Vote Affordable line recorded none. Voters cast 12 write-ins, and 416 ballots left the race blank.
O’Connor ran about 1,100 votes ahead of Lalukota, the Democrat in the neighboring race on the same ballots. That gap, along with Morelli’s win, shows a large group of Clifton Park voters splitting their tickets between the two county seats.
Clifton Park Center on Clifton Country Road. Clifton Park cast 17,921 ballots, the most of any town. (Photo: Tyler A. McNeil, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
HOW IT COMPARES
Among Saratoga County’s eight contested supervisor races, Clifton Park’s county seat fell in the middle of the pack. The chart ranks each contested town race by the gap between winner and runner-up as a share of the votes cast for candidates.
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.
The seat carries 19,014.5 of the Board of Supervisors’ 235,509 weighted votes, according to the county’s weighted-vote schedule, tied with Clifton Park’s other seat for the second-largest share on the board. Only the Halfmoon supervisor casts more votes on the board.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
O’Connor takes office Jan. 1, 2027. He will join a board on which Republican-line supervisors hold 14 of 23 seats and a majority of the weighted vote, by PagPol’s count of the lines each winner ran on. The board will choose its chairman in January.
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.
