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Rangel defeated Powell's father, Adam Clayton Jr., five decades ago to claim the congressional seat which encompasses portions of the The Bronx as well as Harlem, El Barrio, Washington Heights, Inwood and the Upper West Side.

The two will be vying for the vast 19th Congressional seat which includes parts of the Capital District, Southern Tier and Hudson Valley.

Not exact matches

New enrollment figures from the state Board of Elections show that in 11 NY House seats, the difference between enrolled Democrats and Republicans is less than 40,000, which means a number of tight congressional races this fall.

Grimm led Donovan, 49 percent to 39 percent, among GOP voters in New York's 11th District in the poll released by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the House Democrats» political arm, which hopes to flip the seat blue in November.

He has a new book about Republican efforts in the 2010 election to target state legislative seats and thereby gain a huge advantage in congressional redistricting, which he says made a big difference in Republican representation in Congress.

Should Rice or Maloney win the attorney general nomination at the state party's convention on May 23rd and 24th, a «declination period» would start for the congressional district during which the lawmaker would decline the party's nomination for his or her House seat.

As a result, Republicans seized control of the North Carolina state assembly for the first time since Reconstruction and began plotting to take control of the state's 13 - seat congressional delegation, which still swung Democrat, seven seats to six.

That opposition helped catapult her political career, which later included an unexpected victory in a nationally watched special election for a Buffalo - area congressional seat.

Flanagan's office fired back at McLaughlin throughout the day on Thursday, which included mocking his indecision on running for governor and, later, a open congressional seat.

With the state set to lose two congressional seats due to redistricting following the 2010 census, most political observers believe the 9th Congressional District — which covers Forest Hills, Rego Park, Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill, Howard Beach, part of the Rockaways and Brooklyn — will be eliminated, which makes the seat less attractive to ambitiouscongressional seats due to redistricting following the 2010 census, most political observers believe the 9th Congressional District — which covers Forest Hills, Rego Park, Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill, Howard Beach, part of the Rockaways and Brooklyn — will be eliminated, which makes the seat less attractive to ambitiousCongressional District — which covers Forest Hills, Rego Park, Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill, Howard Beach, part of the Rockaways and Brooklyn — will be eliminated, which makes the seat less attractive to ambitious politicians.

Which just happens to be the center of the 19th Congressional District, where she's now the favored candidate to win the nomination for an open seat.

«New York is still very much a blue state, with 2.5 million more registered Democrats than Republicans, which makes our having flipped between 5 and 7 Congressional seats from Democrat to Republican, the most in any State, an even bigger accomplishment,» said state Republican Party spokesperson Alex Carey.

The National Republican Congressional Committee, which spent more than $ 40 million on ads in Democratic - held seats, never spent any money on the Giffords - Kelly race.

New York State has 29 congressional seats, 14 of which are from the city.

«I concentrate in the Congress of course because we lose two congressional seats, which means we are gonna have to pick up population to make up for the fact that we'll have two less, we'll only have 27.

Those three candidates — Zach Emig, a bondtrader and newcomer to Staten Island; Boyd Melson, a retired boxer and Brooklyn resident; and Michael DeVito Jr., a not - for - profit executive and Staten Islander — have filed their candidacies with the Federal Election Commission to run for the 11th Congressional District seat, which covers all of Staten Island and parts of Southern Brooklyn.

Noem's decision opens up the state's at - large congressional seat, which she has held since 2011.

Jack Davis, the self - made millionaire gunning for Tom Reynolds's congressional seat, has released his first ad since Le Affaire Foley, an ever - widening debacle in which upstate representative Reynolds plays a major supporting role as the Man Who Knew Too Much, Did Too Little, and Blamed It All on His Boss.

Candidates running for the 24th Congressional District seat, which includes Syracuse, agree there's no easy answer to the escalating violence in the Middle East.

Bronx County Democrats have endorsed Assemblyman Keith Wright in the primary battle for Rep. Charles Rangel's congressional seat, which includes parts of Harlem, Washington Heights and The Bronx.

The two are vying for the 19th Congressional District seat, which current Rep. Chris Gibson is vacating.

The two candidates for the 24th Congressional District seat, which covers all of Onondaga, Cayuga and Wayne counties and the western half of Oswego County, have two different views of that.

Before Assemblymember Keith Wright had conceded to Sen. Adriano Espaillat in their congressional race, speculation had already begun about which seat Wright would seek next if not victorious.

The councilman will run for New York's 25th Congressional seat, which was held by late Congresswoman Louise Slaughter until two weeks ago.

Following Heastie's announcement of support for him, Bronx County Democrats have endorsed Assemblyman Keith Wright in the primary battle for Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel's congressional seat, which includes parts of Harlem, Washington Heights and the Bronx.

The bill undoing the president's prized overhaul will be the first order of business when the House reconvenes this coming week, marking a sharply partisan start on Capitol Hill to a congressional year in which legislating may take a back seat to politics.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> A Kerhonkson man who formerly was an aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo has filed paperwork to run next year for New York's 19th Congressional District seat, which currently is held by Republican John Faso.

Lanza declined to run for the 13th Congressional District seat — which includes a slice of Brooklyn — two years ago, when GOP Rep. Vito Fossella, Lanza's longtime friend, dropped his re-election bid amidst scandal.

«Stage set for Greg Steube - Julio Gonzalez primary fight» via the News Service of Florida — State Rep. Gonzalez qualified to run for an open congressional seat, setting up a Republican primary battle with state Sen. Steube, who in Florida's 17th Congressional District, which became open when U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney announced he would not seekcongressional seat, setting up a Republican primary battle with state Sen. Steube, who in Florida's 17th Congressional District, which became open when U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney announced he would not seekCongressional District, which became open when U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney announced he would not seek re-election.

Eastern District Court Judge Jack Weinstein agreed with Staten Island attorney Ronald Castorina's argument that the governor must give a compelling justification for not declaring a Congressional seat vacant, which would trigger a special election within 70 to 80 days.

The issue of which borough has a «majority» stake in a given congressional seat is important because that traditionally determines which county committee (and, by extension, county leader) gets to play a decisive role picking the party nominee for that seat in special elections.

In the 2004 congressional elections, Republicans won 21 seats to the Democrats» 11, [2] which suggested they had considerably surpassed their margin of preference among voters.

Now she and her cohorts have their eyes set on an upstate New York congressional seat, in an area she neither knows nor has any connection to, as a platform from which to push their leftist agenda nationally.

Reform Party member Cleave Drummond has announced he will run for Florida's Second Congressional District's seat in the 2014 elections, which is currently held by Republican Steve Southerland.

Rep. Chris Gibson's seat in the 19th congressional district, which covers the Hudson Valley and Catskills, will be represented by another moderate Republican in Faso.

When asked via e-mail about the possibility he would seek, as the Justice Party nominee, Utah's newly formed 4th U.S. Congressional district seat, which conservative Democrat Jim Matheson Read more»

Wright, who is considering a candidacy for the Harlem congressional seat now held by Charles Rangel, threw his support to Heastie which was a major boost to The Bronx representative's chances because black and Latino legislators would not have to split votes between two black candidates.

Speculation abounds regarding possible candidates for the 25th Congressional District seat, which became open after Louise Slaughter's death.

Faso was elected last year to the 19th congressional district, which has been a closely watched House seat for New York and the site of several battleground races since the 2012 round of redistricting.

The surge suggested that capturing the congressional seat covering Lancaster and Reading, which Democrats lost by 11 points in 2016, was well within reach.

«The state of New York also faces redistricting in 2012 which requires the redrawing of all state legislative and congressional seats for next year's election.

Eldridge, a Democrat who is running against incumbent Chris Gibson for a seat in the 19th Congressional District, runs the venture capital firm Hudson River Ventures, which invests in companies throughout the Hudson Valley district and elsewhere in the region.

The once - a-decade process of legislative redistricting will almost certainly not be completed in time for a set of 27 new congressional districts to replace the current 29 seats, which means two delegates per seat must be filed.

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).

She said if she's the Republican candidate for the 11th Congressional District seat she will follow - through on post-Sandy federal legislation, including flood insurance reform, and the mapping of new federal flood zones, which she said have «many ramifiactions» for Staten Islanders.

If the Republicans win back the majority, they will have the upper hand in not only drawing their own lines, but also deciding which of the two congressional seats the state stands to lose will be erased.

CNN: Democrat Kathy Hochul wins House seat in New York special election Democrat Kathy Hochul swept to victory Tuesday night in a closely watched Congressional election in New York state, which turned into a proxy battle on a House Republican proposal on Medicare.

They are running in the Republican primary for the 21st Congressional district seat, which encompasses all of northern New York.

The candidate also received an accelerant last week from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, who moved his campaign into their Red to Blue Program, which means his attempt at the seat has been selected as one determined to be critical in flipping the House back to Democratic control this fall.

On Tuesday, District 13, which covers northern Manhattan and the southwestern edge of the Bronx, will host the most competitive U.S. congressional primary in the city, as nine Democratic candidates face off to clinch Rep. Charles Rangel's seat.