When Phil Dalton saw how close the results for Huntington Town supervisor were, he was not surprised, he recalled. Since October, the Hofstra professor and East Northport resident had been warning that candidates running under the Working Families Party line were there to spoil the town's Democratic ticket.

Republican Supervisor Ed Smyth defeated his Democratic challenger , Cooper Macco, by 602 votes, according to unofficial results. A Huntington Station woman, Maria Delgado, 83, ran on the minor-party line and received 1,195 votes — possibly swinging the election. She did not run a public campaign, and three days after the election, she told Newsday she had "no idea" she was on the ballot.

Questions about Delgado's biography, and who backed her, have galvanized Democrats and progres

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