In today’s Journal, a glance at New York politics:

Going into the election, Republicans occupied only a pair of the state’s 29 seats in the U.S. House: Rep. Peter King on Long Island and Rep. Christopher Lee in western New York. By late Tuesday, New Yorkers welcomed at least five new Republicans to its congressional roster, the same number of GOP additions seen in swing states like Ohio and Pennsylvania.
In the Hudson Valley, retired Army Col. Chris Gibson and ophthalmologist Nan Hayworth topped incumbent Democrats. Businessman Richard Hanna did the same in sprawling central New York, where he ousted two-term Rep. Michael Arcuri. Other GOP pick-ups include Michael Grimm on Staten Island and Tom Reed in the Southern Tier, who won election to an open seat.
Outside Syracuse in the 25th District, Democratic Rep. Dan Maffei currently trails Republican Ann Marie Buerkle by a few hundred votes. But absentee ballots are still being counted, and a final tally is days away.

For now, the Maffei-Buerkle count continues. But in the Hamptons, there may be another GOP pick-up. The AP reports:

A congressional election on eastern Long Island that had appeared to end in victory for a four-term Democrat, U.S. Rep. Tim Bishop, is now up for grabs after authorities discovered they had misreported the result of the vote.
Officials with the Suffolk County Board of Elections said they discovered Friday that the unofficial tally released in the hours after the polls closed was off by thousands.
A routine check of voting machine memory cards showed that instead of leading by about 3,500 votes, Bishop was trailing Republican challenger Randy Altschuler by a little less than 400.
Board of Elections commissioner Wayne Rogers said the original numbers were reported by telephone and relayed through intermediaries before being entered into the county’s computer system.
“Somewhere within that process, some of these numbers must have been transcribed incorrectly,” he told The Associated Press on Saturday.
About 9,000 absentee ballots cast in the 1st Congressional District race have yet to be counted. By law, they could be dropped in the mail until the day before the election, and counting is not expected to begin for days.
Bishop spokesman Jon Schneider called for all ballots to be recounted by hand to confirm the accuracy of the tally.