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Spitzer, Weiner ‘good wives’ break cover

They’re stuck with losers — but feel like winners.

Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer’s long-suffering spouses are free now to stop playing the good wives — and on Wednesday you could see the relief on their faces.

Even with a medical boot on her foot, Silda Spitzer had a spring in her step the morning after her hooker-loving hubby accepted defeat in the city comptroller’s race.

She left their Fifth Avenue penthouse with an envelope bearing her husband’s full name.

Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, was equally optimistic with a wide smile plastered on her face after her humiliating hubby’s big defeat.

Huma Abedin outside her home after Anthony Weiner’s loss.

Friends say Silda — once the biggest supporter of Spitzer’s political career before he humiliated her by stepping down as governor amid a hooker scandal — has been quietly waiting for the charade of the comptroller campaign to end so she can start divorce proceedings.

“Silda is saying she is going to wait until this is all over,” a friend told The Post.

“She has been telling friends, ‘This is too hard. This is too rough.’ ”

Page Six first reported in May the couple had been living separately.

And friends say Abedin “really loves” Weiner but she’s been pushed over the edge by the most recent sexting incident with Sydney Leathers.

Page Six’s Cindy Adams has been reporting for weeks that Abedin plans to dump Weiner.

Rounding out the Pervert Party slate Tuesday were disgraced former Assemblyman Vito Lopez, whose bid for a Brooklyn City Council seat crashed and burned a year after female staffers accused him in a lengthy report of groping and harassing them, and Assemblyman Micah Kellner, who lost his bid for an Upper East Side council seat after allegations he sent sexually suggestive messages to a younger female staffer.

“It turns out sexual misconduct is a fast track to a concession speech,” said Sonia Ossorio, president of the city chapter of the National Organization for Women.

Lopez, once a popular figure in his district and former head of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, was trounced by upstart Antonio Reynoso, while Ben Kallos beat Kellner.

Silda Spitzer leaves her home wearing a walking cast.David McGlynn

The state’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics had published a stomach-churning report detailing Lopez’s behavior earlier this year.

New York City voters showed they won’t forgive and forget and kicked the randy pols to the curb when they had the chance.

“This election makes it clear that voters will reject candidates who fail to treat women with respect and dignity,” added Ossorio, who endorsed the man who beat Spitzer for the comptroller seat, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.

Weiner was the biggest of the lecherous losers Tuesday night, with a dismal 5 percent in the polls after soaring to front-runner status earlier in the summer.

Voters seemed willing to forgive his initial sexting scandal but threw in the towel once he admitted to continuing the despicable behavior after resigning from Congress in disgrace in 2011.
Both wives left their lecherous spouses to wallow alone in their primary election defeats. Silda didn’t make a single appearance on the campaign trail.

Abedin skipped town on the eve of the primary, spending the night at a fund-raiser in Washington for her boss, Hillary Rodham Clinton. She missed the further humiliation of being confronted by Leathers, who turned into an overnight porn attraction after going public as one of the sext-addicted Weiner’s many online conquests.

Abedin didn’t even join the deranged mayoral candidate and their young son, Jordan, on Tuesday to cast a ballot. His campaign tried to explain it away by saying she had to “jump on a call.”

Then, despite being a top fund raiser for Weiner’s campaign — and the star of his first campaign video — Abedin didn’t even get a thank you from the candidate during his concession speech.

But she was all smiles in front of their Gramercy Park apartment in a flowing green dress Wednesday.

After being dragged through the mud as the details of their dysfunctional marriage emerged, the Muslim beauty finally looked at peace again.

Silda, who once stood humiliated at a press conference podium as her husband stepped down from the statehouse in 2008, was more overt in her disapproval of Spitzer’s bid to restart his political career. She spent her summer fly fishing upstate while her husband tried in vain to persuade disenchanted voters to give him a second chance.

Spitzer, meanwhile, refused to address rumors on the campaign trail that he had a girlfriend.

In the end, steamroller Spitzer stood alone Tuesday night as he delivered his concession speech at MIST restaurant in Harlem.

“We have no comment on speculation concerning Eliot’s marriage,” said spokeswoman Lisa Linden.