Town of Montgomery Supervisor Brian Maher is headed to Albany.

Maher, a former aide to Republican State Senator William Larkin defeated Democrat Matthew Mackey to capture the 101st Assembly District. Maher polled 60.19 percent of the vote.

“It’s been quite a long nine month,” said Maher who officially launched his campaign in February on Super Bowl Sunday. “It’s been a long night.”

Speaking before a large crowd at the New York School of Music in Walden, Maher touched on his days as Chief of Staff to the late senator and said he plans to bring the Larkin team back to Albany.

“We’re not going to do the same old thing. A lot of people get elected to public office for the purpose of just getting elected. It happens all the time. We see it all the time. We don’t talk about it enough,” Maher said. “Incumbency is something that hopefully will be fixed with term limits which is something I will advocate for. Until that happens, the best that I can do is to live my life as a public servant with our team the right way and we’re going to do that from day one, starting in January.”

Maher, who said one of his priorities as town supervisor and as mayor of Walden had been to create more opportunities for youth, pledged to do more of the same at the state level, and would work hard to solve the issue of youth flight in New York State.

Maher also praised Mackey for running “a tremendous race.”

“Hopefully this race can be an example of civility in the political process for other races and other candidates to follow,” he said.

“It begins and ends with civility,” he concluded.