Sentences with phrase «congressional seat since»

Or he could be the first Democrat to seriously contest Republican Denny's Rehberg's at - large congressional seat since the 1992 election.

Turner went on to defeat Weprin 53 percent to 46 percent and became the first Republican to hold that particular congressional seat since 1920.?

But unlike in 2008 — or in any election for the congressional seat since then — Mr. Cusick would not have to put his Assembly seat on the line to run for Congress in a special election.

Not exact matches

It will be the nation's first special congressional election since Trump's win, and Democrats view it as their best chance to flip the seat representing the heavily Republican 4th District in southern Kansas.

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.

Since 2002, the Republicans have lost 8 Congressional seats and several state senate seats that WERE DRAWN to elect Republicans.

Mr. Rangel, 85 and the dean of the city's congressional delegation, is set to step down in 2016 after representing Harlem since 1971, and the vacant seat has attracted the attention of State Senator Bill Perkins, Assemblyman Keith Wright, and Adam Clayton Powell IV, the son of Mr. Rangel's legendary predecessor in Congress Adam Clayton Powell Jr., as well as several lesser - known candidates.

On hand at the McMahon victory celebration was Borough President James P. Molinaro, chairman emeritus of the Conservative Party, who told the Advance: «It has been 28 years since the Democrats have held this [congressional] seat.

When Kakto takes office, it will mean the 24th Congressional District seat has changed parties every election since former Rep. Jim Walsh retired before the 2008 election after 20 years in office.

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.

Republicans» representation in the state's congressional delegation has withered since the mid-1990s when the party held almost 50 percent of the state's then - 52 House seats.

And for the first time since 1992, the area has experienced a congressional race for an open seat, with the retirement of Maurice Hinchey.

Wright has been figuring out his next step since his unsuccessful attempt for retiring Congressional Rep. Charles Rangel's seat.

The 11th Congressional District has been without a representative in Washington since Mr. Grimm was forced out of his seat following a guilty plea to a federal tax evasion charge.

Katko had promised since his first campaign for the 24th Congressional District seat in 2014 that he would vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act only when Republicans offer a viable replacement plan.

We are unlikely to see a loss of congressional seats on Long Island since the population there grew relative to the losses north of Westchester County and east of Lake Erie.

Beals is a member of the Woodstock Democratic Committee, and has been working on the grassroots level since last November's election, when he joined with Swing Left, a new national activist movement, to throw a gathering in Woodstock in March, with the aim of winning back the 19th district congressional seat in the 2018 elections.

Once redistricting moved DeSantis out of his old district — and after a failed 2016 bid for U.S. Senate — he needed quick action for his re-election bid to Florida's 6th Congressional District, a seat DeSantis held since 2012.

Republican U.S. Rep. Dan Donovan is campaigning to hold on to the congressional seat he has occupied since his predecessor, Michael Grimm, resigned and went to federal prison for tax fraud.

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.

(CNN) New York Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel has arrived bright and early to save a prime aisle seat for the President's joint congressional address every year since he was elected.

The Cook Political Report, a Washington - based publication that tracks congressional races, says the district leans Democratic, suggesting the seat could flip from red to blue after being controlled by Republicans since 1995.

And Rep. Walt Minnick - the first Democrat to win a congressional race here since 1992 - won that seat in a squeaker two years ago, edging past incumbent Republican Rep. Bill Sali 51 - 49 percent.

Donovan must still get the Brooklyn Republican and Conservative committee support, a formality since he is the only such candidate seeking it in the special election to fill the congressional seat left vacant when Michael Grimm resigned after pleading guilty to one count of felony tax fraud.

Since winning his assembly seat in 1996, Mr. Espaillat has labored to boost the voter turnout in the heavily Hispanic neighborhoods of Washington Heights, Inwood and Marble Hill, registering scores of new voters to both engage people in the democratic process and consolidate his own power base for his congressional bids.

It's been just about a week since the Democratic Party announced documentary filmmaker Aaron Woolf as its candidate for the 21st District congressional seat Bill Owens currently holds, but Woolf has yet to make a public appearance or return emails since then.

Chairman Ed Cox has run the state party since 2009, and despite a Democratic enrollment advantage, has overseen some key victories: the Republican takeover of the state Senate after two years of troubled Democratic rule, and several Congressional seat pickups during the 2010 midterms.

A Gibson aide confirmed Sunday evening that the Kinderhook Republican, who has held the 19th Congressional District seat since 2011, will file paperwork Monday to create a Gibson for New York committee to explore a bid for governor.

In 2002, Mr. Lasher contributed to Tim Bishop's Congressional upset in Suffolk County, and in the past election cycle he worked on several races, among them Working Families Party candidate Letitia James» successful City Council bid, for the seat left vacant when James Davis was murdered in City Hall last summer; Steve Levy's winning bid for Suffolk County Executive (the first Democrat elected for that seat since 1987); and Arlene Bluth's failed bid for Civil Court against Shlomo Hagler in Manhattan.