Sentences with phrase «district seat against»

Wessel - Kroeschell won re-election to the 45th District seat against Karin Sevde (R).

The plan has been obvious for some time: Young liberal about town Sean Eldridge will seek New York's nineteenth congressional district seat against popular incumbent Republican Chris Gibson.

Serino originally planned to run for the state Assembly's 106th District seat against Democratic incumbent Didi Barrett but was recruited for the Senate race to avoid a Republican primary and a potentially split ticket.

The Cuomo administration has set April 24 as the date for the special election, in which state Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer, a Democrat, is vying for the Senate's 37th District seat against either Dan Schorr, a former prosecutor in Westchester and New York City and previous Yonkers inspector general, or Sarmad Khojasteh, a commercial litigation attorney from the town of Bedford, both Republicans.

Brindisi is running for the 22nd congressional district seat against Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney.

On Tuesday, Deacon, who is running for New York's 24th Congressional District seat against Katko, was critical of the incumbent for not issuing a rebuke of Trump's comments.

He ran an unsuccessful 2010 Democratic primary for the 20th Assembly District seat against then - incumbent Harvey Weisenberg.

Not exact matches

Earlier this week, I reported on the upcoming special election in Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district, where Republican Rick Saccone is running against Democrat Conor Lamb to fill Republican Tim Murphy's seat.

For example, suppose that voters are evenly split between two political parties, but the nine equal population single member districts are drawn so that the favored party wins by just 5 percentage points in eight districts, while the disfavored party wins by 40 percentage points in another district, you've converted a 50 - 50 division of the population vote into 8 seats for the favored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error in its favor in the eight districts it wins and a 0.1 seat rounding error against it in the one district it loses), and 1 seat for the disfavored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error against it in the eight district it loses but only a 0.1 seat rounding error in its favor in the one district it wins).

But the focus for both parties will likely be on the 37th Senate district in Westchester County, where Republican Julie Killian hopes to flip a suburban seat against Democratic Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer.

Ulrich was widely seen as having the right of first refusal to run for Weiner's seat, and he backed Turner after deciding against taking a gamble on a Democrat - dominated district that might not be long for this world anyway.

Ryan is still considering whether it's worth it to vacate his comfortable assembly seat in Buffalo to run in the pivotal Senate district against popular Republican Chris Jacobs.

Albany observers are now betting against that scenario, suggesting it's more likely, given the population loss in Western New York, that two of three upstate Democrats — Reps. Brian Higgins, Kathy Hochul and Louise Slaughter — could end up in some kind of head - to - head contest, while retiring Rep. Maurice Hinchey's district (NY - 22) is obliterated to meet one half of New York's two - seat loss requirement.

Any ex officio member of the Executive Committee (District Leaders, past president) who runs against a VID slate or endorsed candidate will forfeit his / her seat on the Executive Committee until the next annual vote for Executive Committee members.

Grimm, who is running against Donovan for his old seat, pointed out that of the $ 190,000 he raised in the first quarter, $ 100,000 of it was from district residents of Staten Island or South Brooklyn.

The District 3 City Council race, for the seat held the past 14 years by Speaker Christine Quinn, pits two passionate and energetic L.G.B.T. contenders against each other for what has often been dubbed «the gay seat.»

Though the district is majority Latino, Mr. Powell said he can still win the seat, even if demographics may work against him.

Our last subject in the race for the 36th Council District seat is the Rev. Conrad Tillard, formerly known as Conrad Muhammad, formerly known as Conrad X. Reverend Tillard first came to public attention as the chief youth minister of the Nation of Islam, and then the minister of Harlem's famed Mosque No. 7, the former seat of Malcolm X. Reverend Tillard made some conventionally controversial remarks against white devils and Jewish slave masters, etc. from that esteemed perch, was later stripped of his ministry under a cloud of suspicion, and then underwent a second Damascene moment when he left the NOI and returned to the faith of his fathers, receiving baptism by the Reverend Calvin Butts.

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.

Democrat Christine Pellegrino ran against Conservative Tom Gargiulo, 59, a retired BOCES special education teacher from Babylon, for the 9th District Assembly seat vacated by Joseph Saladino, who resigned in January to be appointed supervisor of the Town of Oyster Bay.

Valadao captured the 21st District seat in 2012 against one of the worst Democratic candidates of the cycle.

In 2014 and 2016, Supervisor Assini ran against Slaughter for the 25th Congressional District seat.

Mr. Gentile has far better odds of winning the race for the right - leaning seat than Mr. Lane, but he is still seen as an underdog against Republican Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan.

He is running against Democrat Kevin Kim in November for the District 19 seat, which will be vacated by incumbent Councilman Tony Avella (D - Bayside) and includes the neighborhoods of Bayside, Little Neck, Douglaston, College Point, East Flushing, Malba and Whitestone.

She has run dozens of campaigns throughout Queens, New York City and the state and is currently working on Democrat Steve Behar's bid for the 26th state Assembly District seat in northeast Queens and consulting for incumbent Assemblywoman Democrat Catherine Nolan, who is up for re-election in the 37th Assembly District in western Queens against Republican John Wilson.

Frank Morganthaler announces he's on the ballot Frank Morganthaler, candidate for Congress, will appear on the November 6, General Election Ballot on the «We the People» party line, as he faces off against Nita Lowey and Joe Carvin for the 19th Congressional District seat.

Barrett is a Democrat who ran unsuccessfully in 2010 against Sen. Stephen Saland, R - Poughkeepsie, in the state's 41st Senate District Seat.

County Legislator Jay Schneiderman of Montauk will face off against Cornelius Kelly of Westhampton Beach, a Republican, this fall in his re-election bid for the Second District seat, one he has held since 2003.

He is running against Grimm, a two - term Republican congressman representing the 11th Congressional District, a seat that covers the entire borough of Staten Island and takes in parts of Brooklyn, including Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst.

Mr. Lopez failed to win a City Council seat after leaving Albany and even mulled a run against his successor, Assemblywoman Maritza Davila, before settling on petitioning for district leader and state committee, sources say.

And while the borough has had several uncontested elections in past years, the Democratic party nominated medical marijuana advocate Dylan Schwartz to run against Joe Borelli for the South Shore City Council seat and retired engineer Rich Florentino to run against Steven Matteo in the Mid-Island Council district.

A woman in the 19th Congressional District, who picked up a lot of Upstate New York votes in a 2014 primary run against Andrew Cuomo, is now one step closer to a seat in Congress.

In 2010, Republican Tea Party candidate Anthony Mele defeated the local GOP machine in a primary and then ran against incumbent Democrat Eliot Engel for his 17th District Congressional seat.

Andre Baker won in the Democratic primary against former state Sen. Ernest E. Newton II for the 23rd District state senate seat.

BY EVAN WECHMAN In 2010, Republican Tea Party candidate Anthony Mele defeated the local GOP machine in a primary and then ran against incumbent Democrat Eliot Engel for his 17th District Congressional seat.

If the Barrons and Narcisse can successfully mount a coup against Persaud, the only seats left in Seddio's grasp will be Persaud's old Assembly post, Maisel's spot in the Council and a handful of judgeships and district leader positions.

Unions representing law enforcement officers in central New York are throwing their support behind former federal prosecutor John Katko in his race against Democratic incumbent Rep. Dan Maffei for the 24th Congressional District seat.

In this moderate upstate New York district, freshman Democrat Rep. Dan Maffei is defending his seat against attorney Ann Marie Buerkle, a conservative Republican who has never worked in Washington, and who has lately drawn the attention of the Tea Party and national conservative leaders.

Latimer's Hudson Valley state Senate seat in District 37 has been a battleground in the past — including in 2010, when Republican Bob Cohen fell just short against Suzi Oppenheimer, and in 2012, when Cohen lost to Latimer.

The PAC, which was recently infused with more cash from Wal - Mart heir Alice Warton, reported late last week spending $ 144,575 on a TV and radio ad buy in the 41st Senate district opposing Democratic former Sen. Terry Gipson's bid to regain his old seat against GOP incumbent Sue Serino.

Tkaczyk ran on the Green Party line in 2012, when she narrowly won her Senate seat against Republican George Amedore, a former state assemblyman who is running again for the district that stretches from the Mohawk Valley to the Hudson Valley.

Next door in the 40th Senate district, the group is spending $ 56,810 on radio ads for Republican Terrence Murphy, who is running for open Senate seat against Democrat Justin Wagner.

Attorney Monica Wallace officially announced her candidacy for the 143rd District Assembly seat, but a match - up against incumbent Conservative Angela Wozniak is not yet a given.

Meanwhile, the PAC supported by the New York State United Teachers union is launching a $ 312,000 TV ad purchase to bolster Terry Gipson, the former senator who is running against Serino for his old seat in the 41st district.

California: Former State Senator Sheila Kuehl (pictured) is in a tight race against Bobby Shriver, a nephew of the late President Kennedy, for the District 3 seat on the powerful Los Angeles County Board.

Cusick, who has served on the state Assembly since 2002, said he would not seek the Democratic nomination to run against District Attorney Dan Donovan for the seat vacated after Grimm pleaded guilty to tax fraud, the Staten Island Advance reported.

Incumbent Gordon Wheelock is fighting to keep his 10th District seat on the Have A Voice party line, against Kelly Preston.

Rep. Eric Massa (D - N.Y.) has decided against seeking reelection, creating an open seat in a very competitive congressional district.

When Pennsylvania lost a seat in reapportionment, the new district pitted him against another Democratic incumbent.

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.