Gillen’s win puts a dent into Republicans’ recent gains across Long Island. Last year, Republicans won the Suffolk County executive seat. And D’Esposito’s 2022 victory flipped a seat that Democrats had held for nearly three decades.

Republican incumbent Anthony D’Esposito was defeated in his bid for reelection in New York’s 4th Congressional District, losing to Democrat Laura Gillen, according to AP. D’Esposito faced allegations of improprieties following a New York Times report in September the freshman lawmaker gave taxpayer-funded jobs to his fiancee’s daughter and another woman described as his lover.

The battle for New York’s undecided voters centered on two races on Long Island, two in parts of the Hudson Valley and one in central New York. Freshman Republicans who mostly won by slim margins in the 2022 midterms faced well-funded Democrats who had the added advantage of a presidential candidate on the top of the ticket.

The GOP picked up two more hard-fought seats in Pennsylvania, which became a stark battlefield of Democratic losses up and down the ticket. Democrats notched another win in New York, defeating a third Republican incumbent in that state.