KIRYAS JOEL, N.Y. — For some longtime combatants, it had nearly the sweep and significance of an announcement that a hard-won peace agreement was finally at hand.

Kiryas Joel, a village in a corner of Orange County that is home to more 20,000 Hasidic Jews, gained its independence from the Town of Monroe — an amicable divorce that was overwhelmingly approved by town voters on Nov. 7.

While most of the Election Day post-mortems in the New York region focused on the string of Democratic victories across the area, there were ballot propositions, like the one here, that will leave a more lasting mark.