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Manhattan Democratic Party Chairman Keith Wright, who abdicated his Assembly seat last year to unsuccessfully pursue retired Congressman Charles Rangel «s job in Washington, confirmed over the weekend that he is interested in returning to Albany — by running for the position of Harlem State Senator Bill Perkins, who is expected to win a special election to fill the City Council vacancy created when Assemblywoman Inez Dickens left her local post to assume Wright's old role in the State Legislature.

Philip Paige, former St. Lawrence assistant county administrator, announced his campaign for retiring Republican Marc Butler's Assembly seat last September.

Erik Bohen, who won a special election for the NYS 142nd Assembly seat last week, was sworn in to his seat on Monday.

UPDATE 8/10: We spoke last night with Paul Newell, a local district leader who ran unsuccessfully for the Lower East Side assembly seat last year.

Manhattan Democratic Party Chair Keith Wright, who abdicated his Assembly seat last year to unsuccessfully pursue retired Rep. Charles Rangel's post, confirmed he's interested in running to replace Sen. Bill Perkins, who is expected to win a special election to fill the NYC Council vacancy created when Assemblywoman Inez Dickens was elected to Wright's old seat.

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Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb told Kaitlyn Ross on CapTon last night that he expects to have «anywhere from 49 to 51 seats» come Jan. 1, and predicted the GOP will be a power the Democrats are forced to reckon with — even if Speaker Sheldon Silver maintains his veto - proof majority.

A candidate forum for a vacant southern Brooklyn Assembly seat turned into a bitter verbal tussle over abortion last night — not between the two women running to represent the district, but between one of them and a civic leader in the audience.

That cleared the way for Wozniak, a Republican, to win the Democratic - leaning Cheektowaga - based Assembly seat, last November.

Last week, Honeoye Falls Mayor Rick Milne announced he was seeking the 133rd Assembly seat through a social media post.

The Working Families Party has endorsed Yuh - Line Niou to fill the Assembly seat vacated by former Speaker Sheldon Silver who was convicted of federal corruption last year and forced to resign.

UPDATE1: Former Assemblyman Jonathan Bing sets the record straight, reminding me that he took the last Republican seat in Manhattan not Krueger, adding: «Liz beat John in thesSpring of 2002 in the Goodman Senate special, but John remained in the Assembly until the end of 2002.

The wave crashed on Long Island last spring when Democrat Christine Pellegrino won an Assembly seat in a district that had been in Republican hands for decades, and had voted overwhelming for Trump in 2016.

Tom Schiliro, Assembly District 2, Suffolk County (Challenger)-- Schiliro, an active two - decade veteran of the Suffolk County Park Police and a teacher, is challenging Anthony Palumbo, who won a special election last November, for the Assembly seat representing this North Fork district.

Ethel Chen, a longtime Flushing Democrat and retired librarian, kicked off her campaign last week for the Flushing state Assembly seat currently represented by Assemblywoman Grace Meng (D - Flushing).

The AP scrutinized the outcomes of all 435 U.S. House races and about 4,700 state House and Assembly seats up for election last year using a new statistical method of calculating partisan advantage.

Schiliro, an active two - decade veteran of the Suffolk County Park Police and a teacher, is challenging Anthony Palumbo, who won a special election last November, for the Assembly seat representing this North Fork district.

Steve Brooks, Wales Director of the Electoral Reform Society said: «Our research shows that Labour would have won nearly 70 % of the seats in the National Assembly, had the last election been fought using Two Member First Past the Post.

The group has hired Camille Brandon, a state Assembly candidate last year for disgraced former Assemblyman Dennis Gabryszak's seat and considered a fixture in western New York politics, for its Buffalo office.

Hamilton was among the winners for Ukip as the party celebrated getting its first ever seats in the assembly last week.

After leaving the Assembly he made one last political run, but lost his campaign for a seat on the City Council.

Christine Pellegrino was a last - minute candidate for Democrats in the special election for the 9th District Assembly seat, which she won in an upset victory against Conservative Tom Gargiulo on Tuesday, May 23, 2017.

The Republican primary for a state Assembly seat on Staten Island's South Shore last year was especially nasty.

When the lines for state Senate and state Assembly seats were unveiled last week, the drawn districts were widely criticized across the borough and viewed as breaking up communities and gerrymandering the districts to suit elected officials.

While we were all focused on the battle for control of the state Senate, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and the majority's political arm, DACC, quietly racked up five wins last night, bringing the total number of Democrat - controlled seats to 106.

She speculated that she faced no Democratic challengers for Wright's seat - which is centered in Harlem and represents almost exclusively Democrats - because of a number of factors, including the trips Assembly members must make to Albany, the last - minute nature of the opening, and what she said was insufficient pay for state legislators.

State Assembly candidate Aravella Simotas will face no challengers in her bid for Assemblyman Michael Gianaris's (D - Astoria) seat after John Ciafone dropped out of the race last week.

The latest YouGov poll for ITV Wales shows Labour maintaining the strong showing that secured exactly half of the 60 seats in the Senedd at last year's Assembly election.

The council appointed Nicoletti to a vacant seat last year after former councilor Pamela Hunter was elected to the state Assembly.

Though he was crushed in his last bid for a State Assembly seat by newcomer Nily Rozic, Iannece is still making headlines as the criminal defense attorney for Bahsid McLean, 23, who allegedly dismembered his mom and wore a garbage bag to court.

Calls have been mounting for Lopez to give up both his party post and his Assembly seat in the wake of last week's announcement by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver that he had censured the veteran lawmaker after a bipartisan ethics committee found he had sexually harassed two female staffers.

Raymond Harding, the former chairman of the state Liberal Party, admitted he received more than $ 800,000 in exchange for doing political favors, including opening up a Queens state Assembly seat for former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi's son, Andrew, the state attorney general said last week.

It appears New York City attorney John McManmon has the support he needs to run for the state Assembly seat vacated by Republican Dan Losquadro last year.

Democrat Ginny Fields, who lost her Assembly seat after losing a party primary last September, is looking to make a comeback by running for $ 76,800 a year post of Islip tax receiver in November.

Plus Michael Benjamin might be looking to get his old assembly seat back (he vacated that seat just last year, saying he wanted to pursue other projects), State Senator Jeff Klein is raking in the campaign cash and why J.Lo and her pending divorce doesn't deserve our sympathy.

Last November, Pamela Harris became the first African - American to win a majority - white seat in New York City when she captured the Assembly district covering Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and her native Coney Island.

Only a small percentage of registered voters are expected for the race, which would fill the seat once held by Inez Dickens, who was elected to the state Assembly last fall.

No doubt watching the steady stream of votes that had been for gay «marriage» leave the State Assembly (some through last November's lost election seats, others through retirement or appointments to the Cuomo administration) is causing some consternation in the lower chamber, he said.

The seat was held by former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver until last year, when he was ousted following his conviction on corruption charges.

Former AG Oliver Koppell, who represented the Bronx for decades, first in the state Assembly and later in the City Council before losing an uphill battle for state Senator Jeffrey Klein's seat last year, has put his Bronx home on the market for $ 2.5 million.

(The seat is currenly vacant, and two of the district's last three assembly members have left office due to bribery charges, including, most recently, Eric Stevenson, who was convicted in January of accepting bribes).

If the governor calls a special session on April 19 to fill former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's Lower Manhattan seat, the Staten Island Advance would like to see a similar contest held for the vacant South Shore seat most recently held by Joe Borelli, who was sworn into his new position in the NYC Council last week.

The Manhattan Republican Party last night tapped businessman and naval reservist Lester Chang as its candidate to run for disgraced ex-Speaker Sheldon Silver's downtown Assembly seat.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — While there's no election date set to fill the South Shore's vacant Assembly seat, Republican Ronald Castorina Jr. is preparing for a run, and resigned his position as Staten Island's GOP commissioner for the Board of Elections effective last Friday.

Bohen last week won a special election for a vacant Assembly seat.

Last week Lopez was still publicly proclaiming his innocence and clinging to his Assembly seat; he's surrendered his housing - committee chairmanship and will relinquish his role as Brooklyn party boss.

Upon conviction, Silver lost his last remaining hold on power — his Assembly seat.

Mr. Banks said he plans to challenge Charles Barron, the avowedly radical former East New York councilman, for the open State Assembly seat vacated by Ms. Barron after she won Mr. Barron's City Council race last year.

Sen. Roxanne Persaud was elevated from the Assembly last year to fill the Canarsie and East New York seat vacated by the conviction of John Sampson.

The election will fill nine empty seats in the Assembly and two in the Senate, created largely due to lawmakers winning off - cycle local level races last year.

With last night's results, Assembly Democrats are due to grow their majority to at least 106 seats.