Akiko Matsuda and Laura Incalcaterra

Spring Valley Village Trustee Vilair Fonvil, leader of a board majority that has stood against Mayor Demeza Delhomme, defeated challenger Chrispin Eugene Tuesday in a Democratic primary, according to unofficial results.

Meanwhile, in a strong showing, Rockland County Legislator Aron Weider of Spring Valley appeared to narrowly lose a Democratic primary in the 98th Assembly District to Elisa Tutini of Monroe, unofficial results show.

Karl Brabenec won both the Republican and Conservative lines in primaries in the same district, which covers a portion of both Rockland and Orange counties.

Spring Valley

In Spring Valley, Fonvil, who was appointed trustee by Delhomme in December, secured the Democratic line by a comfortable margin, according to the unofficial results from the Rockland County Board of Elections.

Getting the Democratic line is a major advantage in the general election because most registered voters in Rockland's largest village are Democrats.

Fonvil said voters came out to support him because of his work in the past nine months on the village board.

"This is the testament of the good work that I've done. I think they recognized what I've done in the past nine months," Fonvil said. "I'm very grateful and I will continue to work as hard as I can for the betterment of the village."

Fonvil, along with Trustees Asher Grossman and Emilia White, has been going head to head with Delhomme and his deputy, Trustee Anthony Leon. One of the disputes involving the village's day camp put Delhomme in jail.

Fonvil's efforts to hold onto the Conservative and Working Family lines Tuesday appeared to end in a tie. The primaries for the party lines were prompted by a write-in challenge from Joseph Gross, an administrative assistant to Delhomme. Fonvil secured 1 vote for the Working Families line and 6 votes for the Conservative line, unofficial results show. The same number of write-in votes were cast in each primary, although the candidate or candidates are not yet known.

Eugene, a small-business owner, is running on the Organizing Rockland line in November.

Another candidate, Eudson Francois, is running on the Community First line.

Ramapo town justice

In Ramapo, incumbent Town Justice David Stein defeated Christine Theodore, a Spring Valley village justice, for the Democratic line. Stein is also running on the Republican, Independence, Working Families and Green Party lines in November.

State Assembly

In the 96th state Assembly District, incumbent Kenneth Zebrowski easily beat back a challenge from P.T. Thomas to hold onto the Democratic line. He also held onto the Working Families line in the face of a write-in challenge.

Zebrowski also has the Preserve Hudson line and next battles Republican Matthew Brennan in November. The district covers all of Clarkstown and Haverstraw and part of Ramapo.

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