Local
Village elections for a handful of mayors and board trustees were held on Tuesday, March 16, 2010. Four villages, three in Cattaraugus County and the fourth being the village of Seneca Falls, placed referenda for dissolution on their village ballots; all four approved dissolution. Two villages in Erie County (Sloan and Williamsville) rejected dissolution referenda held concurrently on August 17, despite (or possibly because of) the campaigning of Kevin Gaughan. Another referendum proposing the dissolution of Lakewood, New York was also defeated eight days later, on August 25, though Gaughan was not involved in that vote. The villages of Farnham and Cuba rejected dissolution referenda on September 28; Gaughan backed the Farnham dissolution. Odessa rejected dissolution on December 7. School board elections and budget referenda were held May 18, with approximately 92 percent of school budgets passing.
Read more about this topic: New York State Elections, 2010
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