Sentences with phrase «district seat with»

Lehman won re-election to the 79th District seat with no opposition.

The disgraced former New York representative is running to reclaim his 11th District seat with Bannon's backing, after resigning from the House in 2015 over a nearly $ 1 million tax evasion scandal.

McNally won the 14 - year 3rd Judicial District seat with 54,639 votes.

The Courant endorses state Sen. John W. Fonfara for re-election to his 1st Senate District seat with the hope that the Democrat will help get the city and state out of its dire financial straits.

Daniel Squadron kept his 26th Senatorial District seat with a roughly 87 percent lead over challenger Wave Chan, who received 13 percent of the vote.

Not exact matches

The opposition Democratic Unity coalition won 99 seats to the Socialists» 46 in the 167 - national National Assembly, the election board said, with some districts still to be counted.

With its unrivaled central location, Park MGM will offer guests direct access to what is quickly becoming the city's premier entertainment district, featuring T - Mobile Arena and The Park: as well as the previously announced Park Theater, a 5,300 - seat, $ 100 - million entertainment venue, opening later this year.

Drawing inspiration from the Brera district of Milan, Italy, the 110 + seat restaurant features both contemporary and industrial elements with brick walls, hot rolled steel dining tables, reclaimed wood flooring, exposed steel beams, concrete and Ann Sacks tiles.

On Clark Island, the Park District will restore the 70 - year - old stone picnic shelter and footbridges, remove the wooden stage attached to the shelter and build a seating wall with steps for spectators to use during Shakespeare in the Park performances.

The Park District anticipates doubling its revenue in ticket sales to $ 2 million with the increased seating, O'Neill said.

In addition to the water park, the city also gave the Park District funds to improve the Joliet Park District's 10,000 - seat Memorial Stadium with new seating and renovated bathrooms.

The Park District anticipates doubling its revenue in ticket sales to $ 2 million annually with the increased seating.

The lawn - seating area would double as recreational space for park patrons and would only be used for two events this summer as Park District officials experiment with the reconfigured space, Foster and O'Neill said.

The focal point for the downtown business district, this site boasts such amenities as a display fountain, accessible playground, brick walkways with seating and lighting.

Jones and his current partners in C3, 40 - year - old Charles Attal and 36 - year - old Charlie Walker, also have forged contracts with the Congress Theatre to book shows at the 4,200 - seat theater and with the Philadelphia - based facility management firm SMG and the Chicago Park District to bring events to Soldier Field.

Trouble started brewing at the park district last May when two new board members — Janet Silosky and Peter Steinys — were seated and created a new board majority with board President Peter Hurtado.

Developed as a focal point for the downtown business district, this site boasts such amenities as a display fountain, accessible playground, brick walkways with seating and lighting, unique landscaping and a performance amphitheater.

In Itasca, Greater Woodfield officials encouraged the Village Board and Park District to pay for a study for the North American Youth Sports Association (formerly the North American Youth Basketball Association) to determine if a 3,000 - seat arena could be built solely with private donations.

He has been a volunteer football and baseball coach with the Park District for 15 years and unsuccessfully ran for a park commissioner's seat in 1997.

With 650 ballots cast, the top vote - getters for three open village trustee seats were Bonnie Cathleen Blackledge, chairwoman of the Village Cable Commission and a local merchant; Patrick O'Brien, a member of the Glen Ellyn Elementary District 41 Facilities Planning Committee and a Santa Fe Railway Co. retiree; and James Perlstein, chairman of the Capital Improvements Commission and a financial adviser.

With 14 applicants vying for a seat left vacant by outgoing board president Sam Black in Glen Ellyn District 41, school board members this week selected Cathryn Wilkinson, the former associate dean of Fine and Applied Arts at the College of DuPage to fill the spot.

It is harder to research a couple dozen candidates in a given election (which would be typical in a nine seat election since there would be viable third party candidates as well as a candidate for each seat from each of two major parties) than it is to research two of them as you would in a single member district with the two party system that single member districts strongly favor.

Kennedy: «I'm disappointed with the addition of the 63rd Senate seat, besides adding to the cost of government, it was put in a place that has no impact on western New York and quite frankly has no impact on the population shift in New York state and if there was going to be an additional seat added that despite the fact that I disagree with you that the Constitution was in fact violated and you say that it was not violated — the fact that this additional seat adding to the cost and size of government was added to a place in the Capital Region rather than a place where distinctly the population grew down in New York City I believe was based upon the fact that had an additional district been added in the city where the population shift had come from it would have included that seat being an additional minority seat and that is why it was put up in the Capital Region and rather than in the New York City area.

«Republicans went into November with every advantage, including freshly - drawn partisan districts including a new seat, and a huge fundraising lead,» Scharff and Cantor argued.

That parties in the US get less seats than percentage of voters may also just be because the voting system is a majority voting system not a proportional one, similar to the UK but additionally with partisan district partitioning which allows gerrymandering.

Were I in McDonald's district, I would be extremely offended that the Gay Lobby was trying to take over my district and my seat with single - issue funders.

«In addition, this is an important election and I look forward to working with our Democratic candidate to provide a strong voice in Washington for the great people of this entire district and I am confident that a Democrat will win this seat.»

Mainline conference Democrats hope that with the potential addition of John Brooks in the still undecided 8th Senate district the party will have a 32 - member majority in the 63 - seat Senate.

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.

Gannett's Jon Campbell caught up with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who said his conference's plan will consolidate a number of districts in Queens and Nassau County to eliminate the second seat.

The seat, along with a Bronx Senate district, is central to a push by Democrats to gain a working majority in the chamber this month.

The 42nd Senate district in the Hudson Valley is one of several seats Democrats in the state Senate hope to be competitive in this fall, with others around the New York City metropolitan area and on Long Island.

The video, released Thursday, dovetails with Jacobs's entry into the race for the 60th Senate district, a seat that's being vacated by Democratic Sen. Marc Panepinto, who is not running for re-election.

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).

If United Russia were able to secure just under 50 per cent of the popular vote in the party - list competition, along with the lower estimate of seats in the singe - mandate district races, it would end up with over 270 seats, more than it now holds.

Jamaal Bailey, an attorney and Bronx district leader who has close ties with Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, is running for the seat, as is a well - known Bronx pastor, the Rev. Que English.

In Rabbitt, Republicans have a candidate with name recognition to help retain a seat in a district that is heavily Democratic.

A GOP source familiar with the planning says one seat being eyed is the district represented by Sen. David Valesky, a former member of the now - dissolved Independent Democratic Conference.

The 37th Senate district, along with the seat being vacated by Sen. Ruben Diaz of the Bronx, is at the heart of a proposed unity plan between the mainline Democratic conference in the chamber and the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference.

The Westchester seat has long been sought by Republicans, who have spent heavily in the last 10 years in an attempt to flip the district with no success.

Felder announced last week he would remain with the Republican conference in the Senate as Democrats retained two seats in special elections for districts in the Bronx and Westchester County.

Joe Carni, a two - term member of the Syracuse Common Council, said he plans to seek the Republican nomination for the 50th District state Senate seat that will open with the retirement of John DeFrancisco.

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 represented too.

With ballot counting completed in the 8th Senate district, Democratic candidate John Brooks leads Republican incumbent Michael Venditto by 41 votes, an outcome that is almost certainly headed to state Supreme Court in the undecided race for the state Senate seat on Long Island.

The Hudson Valley Senate seat has been something of a swing district, with Gipson narrowly winning a three - person race in 2012 that ousted longtime Republican incumbent Stephen Saland.

The district is one of nearly a dozen seats in the Legislature that will be filled in a special election on April 24, with nine alone being decided for the Assembly.

If the goal is to maintain some form of local representation or connection between a member of parliament and a district (personally, I am not convinced it's a good thing) with a more proportional representation, Germany has another (rather complex) way to achieve that, called «personalized proportional vote» but even that only gives voters control over some of the seats.

The Truman club was Silver's old club, and cancel wound up winning the seat with support and help from Silver's longtime friend and Chief of Staff Judy Rapfogel, Cancel then ended up losing the 65th Assembly District seat to Yuh - Line Niou in a contested Democratic Primary later that same year (more on the Truman Club in a minute).

The major candidates still very much in the mix for that seat are District Leaders Jenifer Rajkumer, Paul Newell along with Chief of Staff to Assemblyman Ron Kim, Yuh - Line Niou.

He is a candidate for Congress in the 25th District, the seat left vacant with the recent death of longtime area Rep. Louise Slaughter.