Riverhead: who represents it, and who is running

U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects governor and Lieutenant Governor (joint ticket); State Comptroller; Attorney General; U.S. Representative NY-1; State Senate SD-1; Assembly AD-2; Suffolk County offices and judges as set by the Suffolk BOE (not read). No U.S. Senate seat is up in New York in 2026 (Schumer 2029, Gillibrand 2031). No Town of Riverhead office confirmed on the 2026 ballot (Suffolk BOE unreachable)..

Holding office11
the sitting council
On the ballot2
1 sitting members running again

The official candidate list ↗ · What Riverhead is like — the /local page

Congressional district (city hall): New York's 1st congressional district (whole town: all 28 grid points) — Nick LaLota (Republican)

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Councilman

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Kenneth Rothwell Elected Councilman Independent At-large Town of Riverhead
Robert "Bob" Kern Elected Councilman Independent At-large Town of Riverhead
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Councilwoman

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Denise Merrifield Elected Councilwoman Independent At-large Town of Riverhead
Joann Waski Elected Councilwoman Independent At-large Town of Riverhead
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Supervisor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Jerome Halpin Elected Supervisor Independent Town-wide Town of Riverhead
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Governor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Kathy Hochul Elected Governor → Running Democratic Board of Elections in the City of New York
Bruce A. Blakeman Governor Running Republican Board of Elections in the City of New York
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Member of the State Assembly — AD-2

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Jodi Giglio Elected Member of the State Assembly Republican New York State Assembly
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State Senator — SD-1

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Anthony H. Palumbo Elected unofficial State Senator Republican New York State Senate
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U.S. Senator

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Charles E. Schumer Elected U.S. Senator Democratic @unitedstates congress-legislators (CC0)
Kirsten E. Gillibrand Elected U.S. Senator Democratic @unitedstates congress-legislators (CC0)
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U.S. Representative — NY-1

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Nick LaLota Elected U.S. Representative Republican Clerk of the U.S. House
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Notes on this record

How the lists were read, and what could not be.

  • Municipal: Supervisor Jerome Halpin and Council Members Kenneth Rothwell, Joann Waski, Robert 'Bob' Kern and Denise Merrifield from townofriverheadny.gov/244/Town-Board ('Members'), which the home page links as 'Elected Officials — View list of current elected officials', read 2026-10-31. The Town Board is elected town-wide (no wards printed), so seat = 'At-large'. Party not printed on Town pages: null. The page prints the Town Hall phone and a general info@ address — not copied as anyone's email.
  • Other Town officers seen but NOT recorded as people (no official page read states they are elected): Town Clerk & Registrar James M. Wooten (/184/Town-Clerk), Highway Superintendent Mike Zaleski and Receiver of Taxes Laurie A. Zaneski (/m/directory). Under New York Town Law these are usually elected offices; confirm on a Town or BOE page before adding.
  • Next Town election: New York towns elect in odd years; the Town Board/Supervisor are next up in November 2027 — inferred, not read from a Suffolk BOE calendar (unreachable).
  • Candidates — BLOCKED: Suffolk County Board of Elections (www.suffolkcountyny.gov and apps2.suffolkcountyny.gov) robots.txt names ClaudeBot and anthropic-ai with Disallow: / — not fetched. NYS Board of Elections (elections.ny.gov) and nysenate.gov answer a Cloudflare managed challenge (403) even on robots.txt — not bypassed. So NY-1, SD-1 and AD-2 candidates are NOT captured; LaLota, Palumbo and Giglio stay 'elected'. Only the statewide Governor contest is captured, from the NYC Board of Elections contest list (Hochul/Adams D-WF v Blakeman/Hood R-C-Vote Affordable), carried from us-oyster-bay (retrieved 2026-10-22); Suffolk ballot lines for those tickets may differ.
  • Districts: Census geocoder at Town Hall (4 W 2nd St): NY-1 (120th Congress), SD-1, AD-2 on the 2026 layers. A 6x6 grid over the town (28 points inside Riverhead town) was all NY-1 / SD-1 / AD-2.
  • Sitting members: Senators Schumer and Gillibrand from the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json via us-oyster-bay; LaLota from clerk.house.gov MemberData.xml (NY01; elected 2024-11-05), read 2026-11-01; Giglio from nyassembly.gov/mem/Jodi-Giglio, read 2026-11-01; Palumbo flagged unofficial (nysenate.gov not reachable). Governor Hochul per governor.ny.gov via us-nyc/us-oyster-bay.
  • Robots/terms: townofriverheadny.gov robots.txt AI-crawler group names ClaudeBot (disallows admin/search/calendar/RSS/FAQ/bids paths only); Crawl-delay 10 honoured. nyassembly.gov (GPTBot only), clerk.house.gov (no robots.txt; 404), geocoding.geo.census.gov (no robots.txt). No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. standsFor null for everyone. Write-ins and primary losers excluded.
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Sources

Prepared 2026-11-01. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.