Election Results: Adriano Espaillat Replaces Charlie Rangel in Congress

HARLEM, NY — For the first time in over four decades, a different person will be representing upper Manhattan and the Bronx in the House of Representatives. Rep. Charles Rangel announced he would be retiring after representing the area since 1971.

The general election on Tuesday culminated with Adriano Espaillat taking over his seat in the 13th Congressional District. Espaillat took 81.5 percent of the vote, dwarfing the single-digit totals of Tony Evans and Daniel Vila Rivera.

Wait times were long in many Harlem locations on Tuesday morning. P.S. 154 was having issues with polling machines, which led to wait times well over an hour. One Twitter user said she'd been in line for over three hours at the school. Wait times in Districts 13, 14 and 15 in Harlem were around 45 minutes each.

Rivera ran again in 2016 as the Green Party candidate, while Evans ran on the Republican side. Evans, a lawyer, is a native of Harlem and former executive with Citibank.

Want to know how seriously Espaillat was concerned about his opponents in Tuesday's general race? He didn't even update his Facebook campaign page since winning the Democratic primary in late June.

The primary was a different story.

Espaillat, formerly a state senator from north Manhattan, battled it out with Keith Wright as de facto successor to Rangel. Espaillat bested Wright 36 percent to 34.1 percent in the June 28 Democratic primary. Wright conceded the race two days later.

Espaillat is an immigrant himself and has been outspoken against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Photo Credit: @EspaillatNY/Twitter

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