At the Nassau County Democratic headquarters at the Mariott Hotel in Uniondale on Tuesday night, supporters and staff alike suffered the loss of majority control over the county legislature, retained the district attorney's office, and waited in angst for results from the Nassau County Executive race. While loss of the legislature hurt, Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi did congratulate the winning Republicans, and by nights end informed the crowd that he was leading by "415 votes".

As the polls closed at 9 p.m., the reception room at the Marriott began to fill in, as on-lookers watched results for the election over a projector screen along with several other televisions. However,when Chairman Jay Jacobs took to the stage just after 10:30 p.m., the talkative crowd became almost silent.

"We are having a bad night in politics," Jacobs told the audience. He then dropped the bombshell of the night, saying "we have lost, in my judgment, the majority of the Nassau County legislature, as Jeff Toback, unfortunately, did not win this time."

According to the results from the Nassau County website, Toback lost to Republican Howard Kopel 6,654 votes to 5,544 votes. On the night, the Republicans regained a majority in the legislature, beating out the Democrats by one seat, 10 to 9.

The website also gave Republican George Maragos a narrow victory over Democratic incumbent Howard Weitzman for Nassau County Comptroller, 115,473 votes to 114,897. In the county clerk race, Republican incumbent Maureen O'Connell won in a landslide over Democrat Carrie Solages, winning with 142,774 votes to 86,482.

The news was not all bad, however, as Jacobs proceeded to tell the crowd "I do want to give you some good news, and the good news i can tell you is this: our great district attorney, Kathleen Rice, has won a resounding victory tonight." Rice won her race over Republican Joy Watson 129,508 votes to 109,526.

While the losses did strike the the audience, there were many outbursts of joy as on-lookers watched the executive race play out, and saw other Democrats from across the island win their votes. When Rice hit the stage to talk to the audience, the crowd erupted in cheers. The largest applause, however, came when Suozzi entered the room.

Absent for the beginning of the night, Suozzi hit the stage to a standing ovation. When he came on stage, Suozzi held a narrow margin over Mangano, and by the end of the night he watched his numbers increase almost 300 votes. With 100 percent of the precincts now reported, Suozzi holds an unofficial lead over Mangano with 118,111 votes to 117,874. Conservative party candidate Steven Hansen is in a distant third with 9,552 votes.

While Suozzi holds the slight lead, he cautioned his supporters to hold their victory celebration, saying "it is [the election] going to go back and forth and everyone is going to be battling over the absentee ballots, the affidavit ballots, the re-counts... but you know what, we're going to win this thing."

Final results for the Nassau County Executive seat may take up to a month, as absentee ballots are now counted to decide a final tally.