Sentences with phrase «as legislative seats»

[102] As far as legislative seats, even though solid districts were fairly even between parties, Republicans were seen to have many more slight advantages.

Not exact matches

If Democratic legislative candidates run as strongly in 2019 as Northam did this year, they'll end up with 58 % of the seats in the House of Delegates and 60 % of the seats in the Senate, and they'll be able to write whatever Medicaid plan they want.

Three weeks after being selected as leader of the governing Progressive Conservative Party, Premier Jim Prentice still does not have a seat in the Alberta Legislative Assembly.

Ultimately, startups and tech can take a short victory lap after TC Heartland, but should not see the decision as a license for patent reformers to take a back seat in the legislative process.

As voting was underway last week, Felder declared he would remain with Republicans in the Senate at least through the end of the legislative session in June, giving the GOP the needed 32nd member in the 63 - seat Senate.

But come January when the legislative session begins, the Democrats are expected to lose two members — Ruben Diaz of the Bronx who won a City Council seat, and George Latimer of Westchester who beat Republican incumbent Rob Astorino for County Executive as part of that previously mentioned «Blue Wave.»

Races to fill two vacant legislative seats began to solidify on Tuesday as candidates filed nomination papers with state election officials, setting the battle lines in contests that Democrats hope will bolster their momentum heading into November's mid-term elections.

As a result of the new redistricting process, it had been estimated that up to 40 percent of the 120 legislative seats could be won by new candidates in 2012.

A commander in the Naval Reserves, he has built a reputation as a moderate Republican in Sacramento and his state legislative district overlaps with the Ventura County chunk of the seat, making him more familiar to a portion of the electorate.

A win for Mr. Kaminsky would mean that Democrats have gained a seat in the State Senate, as Mr. Skelos was a Republican, though the win will not flip control of the legislative body.

Prior to his successful run for the District1 Legislative seat, he served 3 terms as Mayor of Peekskill from January 2002 until December 2007.

As recently as last week, Curran remained at her legislative seat when Democrats left the legislative chamber to gather in their caucus room during meeting breakAs recently as last week, Curran remained at her legislative seat when Democrats left the legislative chamber to gather in their caucus room during meeting breakas last week, Curran remained at her legislative seat when Democrats left the legislative chamber to gather in their caucus room during meeting breaks.

He has refused to resign his legislative seat, but is stepping down as chairman of the Brooklyn Democratic Party.

The Senate gained an extra seat as part of redistricting agreed to this year by Cuomo and legislative leaders.

This move proved completely effective, as no State or Federal legislative office changed party in the 2004 election, although 53 congressional, 20 state senate, and 80 state assembly seats were potentially at risk.

Julian, who party sources said openly supported Cox for the legislative seat, resigned from his staff job with the Republican Committee at the end of its nominating meeting May 25 and was appointed by Mahoney on July 11 to a $ 38,789 job as a confidential assistant in the county Law Department.

Silver gave up his leadership post but is keeping his legislative seat as he fights the charges.

While New York City voters go to the polls Tuesday to fill vacant City Council, District Attorney, and state legislative seats, as well as to vote for judges, a coalition of advocates and activists, including good government and community groups,...

Newton served most of his legislative career as the 124th District representative before winning the 23rd state Senate seat in April 2003 in a special election

The election tribunals and Court of Appeal ordered the re-runs, after voiding the returns for most of the Rivers legislative seats, federal and state; before the Supreme Court, in a bizarre verdict, endorsed the governorship poll, held the same day, and under the same bloody conditions, as the state legislative elections.

Namely, Astorino believes all 213 legislative seats in both the Republican - led Senate and Democratic - controlled Assembly should be term limited, as well as the statewide offices.

The feud was largely a dormant one last year as Democrats had hoped to win enough legislative seats in the Senate to gain control and potential broker a new coalition.

As redistricting loooms for 2012, does Cumo continue to push for an independent commission to redraw legislative boundaries, which in all likelihood make it more difficult for the GOP to retain its narrow 2 - seat majority?

Another candidate, Micah C. Lasher, 34, is a former chief of staff to the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman (who held the Senate seat before Mr. Espaillat), and also served as the city's legislative director in Albany when Michael R. Bloomberg was mayor.

As the legislative session kicks off this week, there are a slew of open state Senate and Assembly seats, and Governor Andrew Cuomo has not indicated when or whether he will call a special election to fill the vacancies.

Ms. Paulin plans to introduce legislation to require a survey every two years — coinciding with when a new Legislature is seated — to «measure the legislative workplace climate as it relates to discrimination and harassment procedure.»

The dispute comes as the Nassau Republican legislative majority proposes to increase its mailing budget by $ 400,000 — to a total of $ 1.1 million — in a year when all 19 legislative seats are up for election.

Democrats flipped 14 seats and Republicans flipped three seats as a result of special state legislative elections in 2017.

Insiders note that adding a 63rd seat in the state Senate could make it easier for the GOP to retain their razor - thin majority in the upcoming elections and avoid any legislative chaos by ensuring one party would be in the majority — as opposed to now, with an even number of seats.

The Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola, which serves as the seat of Nassau County government, is seen here on June 26, 2012.

Now that's he reclaimed those legislative seats lost to laziness, Brulte is asking state party delegates to reelect him to a second two - year term as leader of the state's minority party.

Faced with the possibility of being expelled from the state legislature as soon as next week, State Assemblyman Vito Lopez, a Democrat from Brooklyn, today said he would resign on June 20th at the end of the legislative session and run for a seat on the New York City Council.

City Council member Mark Weprin, a Democrat who represents part of Queens, announced on Monday that he will step down from his seat to join Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration as Deputy Secretary of Legislative Affairs, making him...

Democrats running for Carrozza's seat include Edward Braunstein, who works as a legislative assistant for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan); Steve Behar, an attorney who ran last year in the race to replace then - City Councilman Tony Avella; Elio Forcina, a Whitestone attorney; and John Duane, a former assemblyman in the district and brother of state Sen. Tom Duane (D - Manhattan).

The Albany County Board of Elections knocked Scavo off the ballot for listing a Barclay Street address as his residence on petitions for a 9th Legislative District seat.

Meanwhile, everyone's wondering what might be up on the town's Republican side, beyond the naming of John Scanlan as the official challenger for Parete's District legislative seat.

Those losses reflected the national party's broader erosion since 2008, as outlined by the autopsy: Democrats have lost 69 House seats, 13 Senate seats, and 11 governorships in that time, as well as 30 state legislative chambers.

Hundreds of business leaders, politicians, parents, students, educators, and advocates turned out for the first legislative hearing on Governor Deval Patrick's proposal to expand the number of charter school seats in school districts with the lowest MCAS scores as well as another proposal that would allow for a state takeover of failing schools.

After November 8, when all 120 legislative seats in the Garden State are up for election, the legislature will reconvene for a Jersey tradition known as the «lame duck session».

It's hard to imagine an educator, lawmaker or legislative candidate not sitting on the edge of their seat looking for a clue as to how the justices will rule.

The New Jersey Education Association (NJEA), the state's dominant teachers union, has made it clear that it does not suffer gladly what it sees as traitors to its cause and members, and it will make its voice and electoral machine well - heard in the coming months with all 120 legislative seats on the ballot.

If South Africa provides the modern legislative framework in its bill, promising support for international arbitrations, it could, as a seat, offer 30 % — 40 % savings to parties in respect of the cost of the hearings.

Distinct from their Australian, Canadian and Swedish bodies, the New Zealand scheme primarily revolves around the provision of guaranteed Māori seats in the legislative system as opposed to a separate National Indigenous Representative Body or indigenous parliament.