9:00PM EST:�Andrew M. Cuomo, whose career in government appeared all but over just eight years ago, was elected the 56th governor of New York on Tuesday, a stunning comeback for the scion of one of the state�s legendary political families.

Mr. Cuomo, the state�s Democratic attorney general, won a decisive victory over his Republican opponent, Carl P. Paladino, a Buffalo businessman whose strident and often belligerent rhetoric failed to gain traction among voters, exit polls showed.

The state�s sitting senators, Kirsten E. Gillibrand and Charles E. Schumer, easily won re-election. Results had not yet been reported in the contests for attorney general and state comptroller.

YWN PHOTO ALBUM: Click HERE for photos taken by Hillel Engel at the celebration party at the Sheraton Hotel in Manhattan.

�(YWN Election Headquarters – NYC)