This year's session features five legislators who are not members of a majority party. (hudsonvalleyone.com)
Speakers have a role both as a leader of the House and the leader of their party (which need not be the majority party; theoretically, a member of the minority party could be elected as Speaker with the support of a fraction of members of the majority party). (en.wikipedia.org)
In the lieutenant governor's absence, a president pro tempore presides, usually a powerful member of the majority party. (ballotpedia.org)