Updated at 9:27 a.m. Nov. 5

Republican Elise Stefanik easily won the three-way race Tuesday to represent the North Country in Congress.

In her victory speech late Tuesday night, she pledged to work for a flatter income tax and promised to work with people from other parties, including the Green Party. She succeeds Democrat Bill Owens, D-Plattsbugh, who did not seek another term.

With all districts reporting in the 12-county 21st Congressional District, Stefanik garnered 90,002 votes, compared to 54,704 for Woolfe and 18,377 for Green Party candidate Matt Funiciello.

Stefanik received 55 percent of all 163,083 votes cast, compared to 34 percent for Woolf and 11 percent for Funiciello, surprisingly high for a Green Party candidate.

Stefanik described both her opponents as “accomplished, intelligent men” in her acceptance speech.

Woolf, in his concession speech, said he had just talked with Stefanik by phone and asked her if her “bipartisan commitments were real.” He said “she assured me that they were.”

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Stefanik, Willsboro, works in sales, marketing and management for Premium Plywood Products in Altamont, her family’s company over 20 years ago.

From 2006 – 2009, she served in the West Wing of the White House as part of President George W. Bush’s Domestic Policy Council Staff and in the Chief of Staff’s office where she assisted in overseeing the policy development process on all economic and domestic policy issues.

She also served as Director of Vice Presidential Debate Prep to Paul Ryan and director of Communications for the Foreign Policy Initiative, which launched Defending Defense, a coalition of think tanks warning of the dangers of the sequester.

Woolf first moved to the district began in 1968 at age 4, when his parents bought a home in Elizabethtown. After college, he worked as a film director as well as a commercial fisherman, electrician, and camera tech on film sets.

He was director and producer of “King Corn,” which looked at the ways that agriculture policies affect farmers and consumers on the ground. The film was released theatrically in 60 cities across the country as well as on PBS-tv and the Discovery Channel.

In 2003, he directed “Dying to Leave: The Global Face of Human Trafficking and Smuggling,” which examined immigration systems across the world. In 2010, he completed another PBS special, “Beyond the Motor City,” which focused on Detroit, and the struggle to modernize transit in the nation's automotive heartland.

Funiciello was born in 1967 in Saratoga Springs and raised on a small subsistence farm about five miles away in Wilton. He spent his school years in Ottawa, Ont., returning to live in the U.S. full time in 1988 to start a bakery with his brother.

He has owned and run Rock Hill Bakehouse in South Glens Falls since 1992 and opened Rock Hill Bakehouse Café in Glens Falls in 2002.

He still regularly bakes bread but is involved in his community and issues surrounding it on a daily basis. He is active in the peace movement and has worked on behalf of single-payer health care, for a $15 per hour “living wage,” against “corporate welfare,” for reduction of military spending and for “fair taxation.”