Sentences with phrase «expensive special elections»

With more than $ 3.2 million in combined spending, the race has been among the most expensive special elections in recent memory.

Democrats failed to pick up this open seat in an expensive special election last year.

In April, Kaminsky won the most expensive special election in state history to fill the seat vacated last year by Dean Skelos (the charges against whom partially involved his dealings with a REBNY executive committeeman).

Not exact matches

The party is 0 - for - 2 in Tuesday's special election, failing once again to flip a suburban Senate seat that has been the source of several expensive races.

Much of the $ 2.2 million difference between 2007 and 2015 could be seen as coming from one expensive Senate special election on Long Island.

His Senate seat would also open up, and the special election would likely be one of the most expensive legislative races in state history.

Democrat Annette Taddeo has won Tuesday's state Senate District 40 special election, narrowly defeating Republican former state Rep. Jose Felix Diaz in the hotly contested and expensive race that was closely watched by both state and national parties.

So could Georgia's 6th District, the Atlanta suburbs where a fiercely contested special election — the most expensive in the history of House races — concludes on June 20.

In the past, Cuomo had reportedly said special elections would be expensive, but Adams doesn't think that's a good reason to keep a seat empty.

«With the spotlight shone on public school choice this election year, we've seen a stirring up of opinion... and we've also seen expensive, sustained, and coordinated campaigns to discredit charter schools, led by teachers» unions and special interests that feel threatened by families having a choice in public school.»