Sentences with phrase «congressional seats after»

This time around, New York state lost two congressional seats after new lines were drawn by a federal judge.

According to calculations made by The Fix, Republicans will control the redistricting process in 17 states that are projected to have 196 congressional seats after reapportionment (the decennial process in which seats are added or lost based on population shifts).

This time around, New York state lost two congressional seats after new lines were -LSB-...]

The party in power often loses Congressional seats after a President's first two years in office, even if the President isn't a controversial figure like Donald Trump.

But while history may also be on the Democrats» side — the party in power often loses Congressional seats after a President's first two years in office, even when that President is not as controversial as the current occupant — they actually face a very difficult Senate map.

This is the third time Espaillat will vie for the congressional seat after losing to Rangel by narrow margins in 2012 and 2014.

In January 2015, Malliotakis tried and failed to be the Republican candidate for Staten Island's congressional seat after Michael Grimm resigned.

Sutton lost her congressional seat after redrawn congressional districts pitted her against Rep. Jim Renacci in 2012, who then defeated her.

Not exact matches

Soon after he left the House in 2004, his Congressional seat was won by South Buffalo Democrat Brian Higgins.

After a failing congressional bid last year cost him his state Senate seat, Republican Jack Martins launched his campaign for Nassau County executive, promising to «rewrite the county's history» and restore its ingenuity and financial prosperity.

«I'm concerned — and I think other conservatives are concerned — that we could lose a large portion of our congressional delegation if everybody jumps in to go after the Senate seat,» she said in an interview.

A day after Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle (D - Irondequoit) announced that is a candidate for the 25th Congressional District seat left vacant by the death of Louise Slaughter, there is a candidate for Morelle's 136th district seat in the Assembly.

Four years after an unsuccessful bid to be the Democratic nominee for an open - congressional seat in the Capital Region, Phil Steck was victorious in an effort to be his party's representative in a race for the 110th Assembly District (Spoiler Alert: He still has that seat).

After Republicans» electoral disappointment — they lost the presidency, two Senate seats and eight House seats — the RNC and the National Republican Congressional Committee commissioned reviews of the party's survey procedures, laying out specific guidelines for pollsters to follow.

Hayworth held a U.S. House seat in the 19th District from 2010 - 2012, and after New York's redistricting, was defeated by Maloney in the 2012 18th Congressional District election.

After failing to reapportion seats in 1921 in an effort to avoid losing the strength in their two house majority, the Republican led Congress (and Presidency) passed the Act to ensure their Congressional power would remain intact for the foreseeable future.

The heads of the borough's two major parties are expected to name their nominees to replace former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner by later this week at the earliest after Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for a Sept. 13 special election to fill the vacant 9th Congressional District seat in Forest Hills.

The Department of Justice sued to force the state to move up the September primary, and after several months of delays, a federal judge ruled two weeks ago that the primary for congressional seats was to be held June 26.

McMahon, who represents the North Shore on the City Council, and Straniere are running for the 13th District Congressional seat left open by Rep. Vito Fossella, a Republican who opted not to seek re-election after it was discovered he fathered a child outside of his marriage.

New York State has a slew of fascinating congressional races, from sure things for one party that will still bring a new face, like the contests to replace Charlie Rangel in CD13 after nearly fifty years or Steve Israel in CD3, to a bunch of races that could unseat young representatives and flip seats, such as Republicans Lee Zeldin on Long Island (CD1) and Elise Stefanik (CD21) or Democrat Sean Maloney (CD18).

The first - term congresswoman made her comments in a statement after syracuse.com reported that Brindisi will launch his campaign for the 22nd Congressional seat on Wednesday in Utica.

State Sen. Jack Martins (R - Mineola), who also is running for Israel's seat, lost his campaign in the 4th Congressional District in 2008 after lending his campaign $ 50,000.

Almost half the states have never had a black member of Congress, but after she succeeds fellow Democrat John Carney (a sure bet to step into the governorship) in the state's single House seat, Mississippi and Vermont will be the only states that have never seen a female in their congressional delegations.

Mr. Rangel, 85 and the dean of the city's congressional delegation, is set to step down in 2016 after representing Harlem since 1971, and the vacant seat has attracted the attention of State Senator Bill Perkins, Assemblyman Keith Wright, and Adam Clayton Powell IV, the son of Mr. Rangel's legendary predecessor in Congress Adam Clayton Powell Jr., as well as several lesser - known candidates.

Freeman is the city's former equal opportunity officer, who — notably — accused his former boss of harassment after he declared his candidacy for the 21st Congressional District seat last year, opposing Tracey Brooks, who was backed by Mayor Jerry Jennings.

When Kakto takes office, it will mean the 24th Congressional District seat has changed parties every election since former Rep. Jim Walsh retired before the 2008 election after 20 years in office.

It was also clear Thursday that after two years in political purgatory for the sexting scandal that cost him his congressional seat, the old, feisty Weiner was back.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee reserved a third wave of television time, one week after announcing the selection of the first two waves that identified 40 of the most vulnerable seats in the midterm elections.

After Meeting With GOP Candidate, NRCC Chairman Walks Back Comment on 2nd District After seemingly waving the white flag in New Jersey's 2nd congressional district, National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Steve Stivers said on Wednesday that he's confident the GOP will keep the seat after meeting with candidate Hirsh SAfter Meeting With GOP Candidate, NRCC Chairman Walks Back Comment on 2nd District After seemingly waving the white flag in New Jersey's 2nd congressional district, National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Steve Stivers said on Wednesday that he's confident the GOP will keep the seat after meeting with candidate Hirsh SAfter seemingly waving the white flag in New Jersey's 2nd congressional district, National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Steve Stivers said on Wednesday that he's confident the GOP will keep the seat after meeting with candidatecongressional district, National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Steve Stivers said on Wednesday that he's confident the GOP will keep the seat after meeting with candidateCongressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Steve Stivers said on Wednesday that he's confident the GOP will keep the seat after meeting with candidate Hirsh Safter meeting with candidate Hirsh Singh.

The atmosphere in Hasbrouck Park last Friday morning was festive, even electric as a crowd of approximately 1,300 people congregated to hear Socialist Vermont senator and former presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders deliver a ringing endorsement of Zephyr Teachout's bid to reclaim New York's 19th Congressional District seat for the Democrats, after it was held for three terms by retiring Republican Chris Gibson.

And Weiner's announcement comes just two weeks after another politician whose career was left for dead following an infamous affair, former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, made a huge comeback by winning a special election to fill a vacant congressional seat.

Mr. Adler, who is both a registered Democrat and a donor to the right - wing Conservative Party, was appointed in 2012 to pursue charges after the Staten Island district attorney, Daniel M. Donovan Jr., who is now a candidate for the island's congressional seat, recused himself.

And after Espaillat captured the congressional seat, the triumphant pol backed a leader in his political club, Marisol Alcantara, for the seat.

Former Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi, one of five Democrats in Tuesday's primary for a congressional seat representing much of Long Island's North Shore, is seeking a comeback after three failed campaigns.

Even after a federal judge ordered Mr. Cuomo to declare a special election for a vacant Staten Island Congressional seat, party leaders did not foresee that Mr. Cuomo would decide that the federal election and state election would be held on the same day, May 5.

This year, Cuomo took weeks to set a date for a special election to replace resigned Rep. Michael Grimm (the bill would not cover congressional special elections) and did so after Karim Camara resigned his Assembly seat to join the administration.

Former TV reporter Rachel Barnhart says she plans to make an announcement next week about whether or not she will run for the 25th congressional district seat, left vacant after the death of Louise Slaughter.

In most states, the congressional lines will be drawn by the state legislature and approved by the governor after the reallocation of seats based on population shifts as documented in the 2010 census.

He had been rumored as a City Council or state Senate candidate after he lost in a June Congressional primary and subsequently vacated his Assembly seat after declining to seek reelection.

After losing to Rep. Jim Walsh (R) by just over 3,000 votes in 2006, former congressional aide Dan Maffei (D) is the odds - on favorite to win the upstate New York seat in the fall.

After a final day of intense campaigning, Republican incumbent Richard Hanna won his second term as a New York state congressman last night, beating Democrat challenger Dan Lamb for the seat in the newly redrawn 22nd congressional district.

A notable instance came in the congressional elections of 1992, a year after Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas during hearings on his nomination for a Supreme Court seat of having sexually harassed her when they had previously worked together.

You'll need something to yank after realizing that there are ten congressional districts in New York where Democrats are running either against incumbent Republicans or for an open seat.

The move comes a day after GOP New York assemblyman Jim Tedisco, running for Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's former congressional seat, told reporters he would have voted against the stimulus bill.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — After failing to make it on the ballot as the Independence Party candidate, entrepreneur Martin Babinec has decided to launch a new political party in his bid for the 22nd Congressional District seat..

But now interest in the congressional seat has surged among both Republicans and Democrats after Hanna decided to retire at the end of his term.

► Guillermo Linares, the incumbent, announced he was running for his seat late in the race, after spending the early part of the year campaigning for Rep. Charlie Rangel's Congressional seat.

Thomas and Dunn are squaring off against former U.S. Attorney Ken Sukhia in a heated North Florida Republican primary to replace U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham, who is leaving her 2nd Congressional District seat after a 2014 redistricting decision led to radical changes to its political composition.

But while every new president can expect his party to lose congressional seats in the first midterm election after he takes office, Dawidziak said he doesn't expect a tsunami for Democrats, or for King or Zeldin to face «top - notch» opponents next year.

Senate Republicans, already stressed over their problems finding a candidate in the upcoming special election for the Nassau County seat left vacant by the conviction of former Sen. Dean Skelos, are in an a «funereal mood» after Sen. Jack Martins (R - Nassau) decided to seek retiring Democrat Steve Israel's congressional seat.