Sentences with phrase «district house seat»

So embittered was Hackett that he refused pleas from Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Rahm Emanuel (Ill.) to run for the 2nd District House seat against Rep. Jean Schmidt, whom Hackett had nearly beaten in an August 2005 special election.

(The 24th District House seat has since changed hands and is held by Republican Richard Hanna.)

The Green Party moved into the spotlight in 2014 in the North Country's congressional race, with Matt Funiciello from Glens Falls running a strong third - party bid for the 21st district House seat.

Democrat Pam Keith, former primary opponent of Rep. Patrick Murphy and Alan Grayson in 2016, is running against freshman Rep. Brian Mast for his Florida 18th District House seat in 2018.

State Senate Majority Leader Michael Roberson is expected to quickly, if not immediately, announce his candidacy for Heck's 3rd District House seat.

Updated, 12:45 p.m. A Republican - turned - Democrat announced Tuesday he's making a second run for the Pennsylvania 6th District House seat currently held by Republican Rep. Ryan A. Costello.

New York Rep. John McHugh is President Obama's choice to be the new secretary of the army, a decision likely to set off an extremely competitive special election for the Republican's 23rd district House seat.

Not exact matches

The Republican frontrunner in the race to fill House Speaker Paul Ryan's seat in Wisconsin's 1st District raised more than $ 250,000 during the first week of his campaign.

Dems win key race in swing district: «Outspent but not outmaneuvered, Democrat Javier Fernandez took Florida's 114th House district Tuesday, keeping the purple Miami - Dade seat in the fold for the state's surging minority party.

According to him, the Peace Council has indeed shown its readiness to maintain peace in the country during, before and after the 2016 electWhile addressing party supporters last week at a village in the Sissala East District of the Upper West Region, Dr. Bawumia, vice presidential candidate of the NPP, said the Flagstaff House — the seat of Ghana's Presidency — does not reflect the people of Ghana in terms of religion.

A Senate GOP source confirms several reports that the congressional district currently held by retiring Democratic Rep. Maurice Hinchey (NY - 22) has been carved up in the their House redistricting plan, along with Democratic Rep. Gary Ackerman's seat.

Cantor predicted a slew of contested races at the local, state and federal levels in the coming year (recall that all the House and state legislative seats will be up for grabs with new district lines, which further boosts the possibility of competitive contests).

Democrat Linda Belcher was pronounced the winner of the special election in Kentucky's House District 49 — a seat that Trump carried by a 72 - 23 margin in 2016 and that went 66 - 33 for Mitt Romney in 2012.

A more dramatic twist: Double the size of the House - every district now elects two seats: The final two opponents with the most votes, and each one gets a vote value based on their percentage of the voters, so they loser with 49 % of the vote gets 0.49 votes in the house and the winner with 51 % of the vote gets 0.512 votes in the house - this way the losing side gets representedHouse - every district now elects two seats: The final two opponents with the most votes, and each one gets a vote value based on their percentage of the voters, so they loser with 49 % of the vote gets 0.49 votes in the house and the winner with 51 % of the vote gets 0.512 votes in the house - this way the losing side gets representedhouse and the winner with 51 % of the vote gets 0.512 votes in the house - this way the losing side gets representedhouse - this way the losing side gets represented too.

But the House seat has not been on the radar of national efforts to flip the seat to the Democratic column like those to the south, including the districts represented by Republican freshman Claudia Tenney and John Faso.

But Cuomo has also made it a point this election cycle to flip House seats held in competitive districts by Republicans, viewing Reps. John Faso and Claudia Tenney as especially vulnerable this year.

Willton King for Virginia House of Delegates, District 18 Campaign Details 3rd / 3 for one seat; 1,403 votes, 5.08 % http://results.elections.virginia.gov/vaelections/2017%20November%20General/Site/Member%20House%20of%20Delegates%20 (018).

Hartford Councilman Julio Concepcion received the city Democrats» endorsement for the 4th House District seat.

Alternatively it is said that she has her eye on Carolyn Maloney's House seat in the famed silk stocking district, but the Hon. Maloney isn't going anywhere soon, so CM Lappin has decided to try for Manhattan BP in the meantime.

If Arizona Rep. Kyrsten Sinema vacates her 9th District seat to run for Senate, there could be no LGBTQ women in the House in the next Congress.

html Montigue Magruder for Virginia House of Delegates, District 69 Campaign Details 3rd / 3 for one seat; 1,061 votes, 3.73 % http://results.elections.virginia.gov/vaelections/2017%20November%20General/Site/Member%20House%20of%20Delegates%20 (069).

But such a candidacy would reverberate: it would require Rice to vacate her House seat, which is in a potentially competitive district.

Jeff Staples for Virginia House of Delegates, District 77 Campaign Details 2nd / 2 for one seat; 3,361 votes, 16.84 % http://results.elections.virginia.gov/vaelections/2017%20November%20General/Site/Member%20House%20of%20Delegates%20 (077).

Democratic county chairs in New York's 19th District are meeting Saturday to select their candidate of choice in a must - win seat for the party to make gains in the House.

Swing Left is targeting 64 House seats and has activated local, self - organized teams across the country to begin canvassing their respective swing districts — including knocking on doors to survey constituents» concerns, registering new voters at farmers markets and recruiting locals to build up volunteer capacity inside the targeted districts.

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.

In today's Congressional Corner, New York state Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi, a Democratic candidate for New York's 22nd House district seat, wraps up his conversation with WAMC's Alan Chartock.

Democrats see it as a top - tier pickup opportunity, a rare open - seat House race in a tossup district that President Barack Obama won twice.

Concepcion, 35, won city Democrats» endorsement for the 4th House District seat, which includes portions of downtown and the South End.

But the 2nd District is the kind of seat that could get swept up in a blue wave, diminishing the GOP's numbers and potentially the number of Republican women in the House, too.

He is seen as increasingly vulnerable in this campaign due to the growing Latino majority in his district and his 2010 censure by the House for multiple ethics violations and has attracted four challengers in this race; Mr. Espaillat, former Democratic National, onetime Democratic District Leader Joyce Johnson and Craig Schley, a local activist and former model who previously ran for the seat as an indedistrict and his 2010 censure by the House for multiple ethics violations and has attracted four challengers in this race; Mr. Espaillat, former Democratic National, onetime Democratic District Leader Joyce Johnson and Craig Schley, a local activist and former model who previously ran for the seat as an indeDistrict Leader Joyce Johnson and Craig Schley, a local activist and former model who previously ran for the seat as an independent.

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.

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.

But there is a politically expedient solution for Democrats if they want to show him the door: Neuter his district in the redistricting process, which will require New York to lose 2 of its 29 seats in the House of Representatives.

Democrats, too, may be wary of turning to a candidate without local ties to a district after the special election in Georgia's sixth district, in which Jon Ossoff struggled to combat the criticism he didn't live in the House seat he was running to represent.

Former Democratic Rep. Brad Schneider is trying to retake his 10th District seat in Illinois by tying current GOP Rep. Robert J. Dold to House Republicans on gay rights.

Former White House staffer Elise Stefanik, who is the GOP nominee in the open - seat race for New York's 21st District.

After an independent redistricting commission redrew the House district lines, Republicans lost four seats.

He was one of just three Democratic incumbents that Republicans were believed to have a chance of knocking off this year, and The Associated Press projected Wednesday morning that Republican challenger Don Bacon has done just that, picking up the Cornhusker State's 2nd District seat in the House.

Seeking to avoid a contentious primary, some national Democrats have been working behind the scenes to force Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider out of a competitive open - seat House contest in California's 24th District.

-- In his home district on the Lower East Side, there is abundant evidence that Silver kept his seat of power by blocking the creation of affordable housing in a 20 - block area known as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area... Their goal was to preserve the influence of a shrinking Jewish community that made up Silver's political base.

[1] District 22 is currently represented by Marc Keahey (D) who is a potential candidate for the U.S. House seat held by outgoing Representative Jo Bonner (R).

Primaries in Competitive General Elections New York's 21st District The GOP brawl between attorney Matt Doheny and former Bush White House staffer Elise Stefanik for retiring Rep. Bill Owens» upstate New York seat could go down to the wire.

Democrats are focusing on more suburban districts, where they believe changing demographics are moving seats into the Democratic column, in their effort to regain the majority in the House.

But his decision is likely to make New York's 22nd District one of the most competitive House races in the nation next year for an open seat in a traditionally moderate swing dDistrict one of the most competitive House races in the nation next year for an open seat in a traditionally moderate swing districtdistrict.

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Here's the trouble: If legislators don't agree on a bill to move their own primary date to correspond with the one that US District Court Judge Gary Sharpe ordered for the federal races, then Assembly members and senators could theoretically challenge sitting House members and then, if that doesn't work out, fall back to run for their own seats.

Nevada holds a special election on September 13 to fill the vacant U.S. House seat, 2nd district.

Ten of New York's Democratic - held House seats were ranked as competitive by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report prior to the election; the 4th District was ranked likely Democratic; the 13th, 22nd and 25th Districts were ranked as lean Democratic; the 1st, 19th, 20th, 23rd and 24th were ranked as toss - ups; and the 29th District was ranked as likely Republican.

However, he switched to run for the Arkansas State Senate, District 25, because there were only two Democrats running for the seat, as opposed to the one Republican and three Democrats running for the house seat.