STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Wendy Long won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, and it turns out that she narrowly won Staten Island as well.

All of which makes borough GOP chairman Bob Scamardella a happy man.

According to final Board of Elections results, Ms. Long got 1,252 votes here during the primary, edging Rep. Bob Turner, who got 1,125.

Nassau County comptroller George Maragos very much brought up the rear on the Island, receiving just 264 votes.

On primary night, it seemed that while Ms. Long was easily winning the state, Turner could have taken the borough.

Bur records showed that Ms. Long won three of the Island’s four Assembly districts. And the one she lost, the 62nd District, she lost by a scant 4 votes.

The primary had split two of the borough’s top Republicans and longtime allies.

Scamardella supported Ms. Long, a fellow attorney, while former Borough President Guy Molinari backed Turner, who’d also been endorsed by Rudy Giuliani.

“I’m glad she won the primary, and it was nice to see her carry Staten Island,” Scamardella told us. “We have some very discerning and smart Republican voters.”

Scamardella went his own way on the race, even though friend and mentor Molinari was with Turner.

Since taking over the party, Scamardella has been adamant that he is his own man, despite his long relationship with Guy; there are no strings being pulled by Molinari. The Long win was a feather in Bob’s cap.

“I felt she was the best candidate,” he said. “I thought she was the right person for this election.”

But you won’t hear Scamardella do any bragging.

“As far as any chest-thumping is concerned, I don’t go down that road,” he said.

NOT WEINER’S TIME

Former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner may eventually get back into politics.

But it shouldn’t be quite yet, said one Island Dem.

“It’s too soon for Anthony to consider getting back into the toughest arena,” said state Sen. Diane Savino (D-North Shore/Brooklyn).

Weiner left his House seat after revelations that he sent lewd images of himself to women on the Internet.

But word surfaced recently that Weiner was looking to get back in the game and was thinking about running for mayor or public advocate in 2013.

Weiner quickly shot down the speculation, saying it was “a clown story, bro.”

See, he’s even keeping up with today’s hip lingo.

Weiner has many allies here, and won the Island in the 2005 mayoral primary. He was headed for a runoff with Freddy Ferrer before folding his tent. The move generated a lot of political good will that has thus far gone unused.

Ms. Savino said that Weiner was “smart, and probably knows outer-borough issues better than any of them.”

“But his personal circumstances keep him out,” she said. “It’s more important for him now to deal with his wife and baby.”

If there are second acts in American politics, Ms. Savino said, maybe Weiner will re-emerge in the future.

“But I don’t think now is the time for him to do it,” she said. “With his talent and love of the game, it must be frustrating to be on the sidelines. It must be killing him. It’s a shame.”

THOSE WERE THE DAYS

A new book about Island political history has Molinari waxing nostalgic about his own days in the arena.

The book, “Staten Island: Conservative Bastion In a Liberal City,” details the issues and personalities that have dominated Island politics in recent decades.

Molinari, you can imagine, looms rather large, as does the late GOP state Sen. John Marchi.

Author Rich Flanagan, the CSI professor who co-wrote the book with his late colleague, Daniel Kramer, said that Molinari and Marchi would be the two people most mentioned when people talked about Island politics in the future.

But Molinari and Marchi, of course, didn’t always see eye to eye, most famously at that wild 1987 county GOP convention, when Molinari battled against the Marchi forces to remove George Hart as Republican chairman.

Guy eventually prevailed, installing Olga Igneri as chair, even if cops had to be called to keep the peace and the convention spilled over into a second day.

But in reading the book, Molinari, a former congressman and assemblyman, said that any bad blood between himself and Marchi was overstated.

The two had gotten to know each other when Guy served in Albany in the 1970s, when Marchi was a powerhouse member of the state Senate.

“I don’t think it was that bad,” Molinari said. “We had the explosion that night of the convention, trying to oust George Hart. Emotions ran very high. But we were always able to work together. We always exchanged pleasantries.”

Said Molinari, “I always liked the guy, even though there were moments of political drama.”

Overall, Molinari said, the book “brought back memories,” including long-ago battles against power plants, a theme park and the LNG tanks.