The national Democrats did well this election cycle, gaining decisively across the nation. The same appears to have been true in Ulster County, where Republicans suffered significant losses in the county legislature.

If the GOP was looking for a Trumpian bounce this year, they didn’t get it.

County

It comes as small surprise that Ulster County comptroller March Gallagher, county clerk Taylor John Bruck, and two countywide judicial candidates didn’t have opponents in the November 4 election. The county as a whole is strongly Democratic. To win a countywide vote, a Republican candidate without Democratic crossover would need more than 70 percent of the voters of unaffiliated small parties and those not enrolled in any party. That’s a heavy lift.

What’s true in this county of about 181,00

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