Sentences with phrase «legislative seats»

Women have held less than 25 percent of all state legislative seats for years.

This gives them lots of safe legislative seats in overwhelmingly Democratic areas.

That's about 26 percent of legislative seats occupied by women.

This is 23 % of the 1,600 state legislative seats up for election in the 14 term - limited states with 2010 elections.

Of course others will have started circulating petitions for that state legislative seat weeks before.

We do this by supporting candidates for state secretary of state and state legislative seats who want to expand voting rights.

And the discussions are taking place in a highly charged political atmosphere, given the fact that the governor's office and every single legislative seat is up for grabs in this election year.

In total, 17 state legislative seats flipped party control in 2017.

Legislative seats also will be up for election across the state.

Both parties lost votes and legislative seats in comparison with 2004.

This was 23 percent of the 1,600 state legislative seats up for election in the 14 term - limited states with 2010 elections.

It is more likely that a single party will hold a majority of legislative seats.

In 2013, 84 state legislative seats were filled through special elections in 23 states.

Parker now gives Rye City a firm grip on every state and county legislative seat in the area.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order proclaiming special elections to be held for the 11 open legislative seats on April 24, and many races are already beginning to heat up.

Jenkins, a leader in Democratic politics for over 20 years, won his 16th District legislative seat for a third full term November 9, 2011 and was elected once again by his peers to become Chairman of The Board of Legislators and was sworn in on January 9, 2012.

There are 29 incumbents facing major party primary challenges, 14 campaigns for candidates in open legislative seats, and six races to be the nominee against an incumbent who might be vulnerable in November.

Motivated by education cuts and a nationwide spirit of activism, dozens of teachers are running for legislative seats across the country.

In 2010 and 2014, Republicans won hundreds of formerly Democratic - held state legislative seats across the United States.

After the 2016 elections, Republicans controlled «4,170 state legislative seats after last week's elections, while Democrats will control 3,129 seats in the nation's 98 partisan legislative chambers,» according to the Hill.

Gov. Cuomo is expected shortly to call a special election for mid-April to fill a number of vacant legislative seats, including District 32, recently vacated by Ruben Diaz Sr., who was elected to the New York City Council.

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

These 15 state legislators termed - out in 2011 made up 10.4 % of the total legislative seats up for election in Louisiana.

Last week, Republican Steven Rhoads, a personal attorney and local firefighter, defeated Democratic former Hempstead Town Board Member and gun control activist Rita Kestenbaum to fill the Nassau County legislative seat vacated by Democrat Dave Denenberg.

«After our historic victories across the country last year, we're confident Democrats can flip this district and oust John Faso once and for all, the same way we've flipped 34 state legislative seats from red to blue since Trump took office.»

Under Minnesota state law, the state Legislature is responsible for drawing new maps for U.S. House and state legislative seats following the completion of the census.

An NYPD detective who was disqualified from challenging a GOP - backed candidate for a Nassau legislative seat because of a petition error has filed an 11th - hour appeal seeking to get on the ballot.

And that's a major reason Republicans lost so many legislative seats last month.

-- Republican Thomas McKevitt left his Assembly seat in the 17th District for a more local legislative seat on the Nassau County Legislature after defeating Democrat Eileen Napolitano.

Republicans sought to defend 98 state legislative seats against Democratic challengers.

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.

Wading River resident Frank Seabrook has declared an interest in running on the Republican line for the Suffolk County legislative seat now held by Ed Romaine, who will leave it soon to take over as Brookhaven Town supervisor following Mr. Romaine's victory in a special election on Tuesday.

It was not quite the blue wave that Democrats in New York had hoped for, but the results of Tuesday's special elections in 11 state legislative seats did give the party hope that they might be able to help national Democrats retake the House of Representatives in the fall.

Over the past few weeks, public faceoffs with lawmakers over her nominee for state attorney general, her reluctance to request all the stimulus funds available to the state, and a series of her picks to fill a Democratic legislative seat that have all been rejected by members of the party.

Carl will campaign hard to preserve Republican legislative seats and win more seats for our Party.

A grand jury has issued a subpoena requesting Republican Committee documents and emails related to the committee's May 25 vote nominating Knapp for the 12th District legislative seat Cox has held since he was appointed by Mahoney.

President Ronald Reagan (R) was the only president to increase his party's number of state legislative seats over his two terms in office, gaining six total seats across all 50 state legislatures.

And you note that while Operation RedMap targeted, you know, a few dozen congressional seats in efforts to flip statehouses, it was a big Republican tide that year in that they gained almost 700 state legislative seats nationwide.

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 of July 2017, third - party legislators held less than one percent of all 7,383 state legislative seats throughout the country.

Republicans came out with 299 state legislative seats compared to the 250 seats Democrats won in the four states that held elections in 2011.

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

In these just - completed primaries, 66 percent — or about two - thirds — of the city's state legislative seats saw no intra-party competition.

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.

The bill comes after Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been criticized for leaving multiple legislative seats open in 2014.

That seems unrealistic, some lawmakers said privately, given that it is an election year for the 213 legislative seats come 2016.

So far, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has shown no interest in calling special elections to fill empty legislative seats, since the candidate selection is inherently political and falls to the county chairs.

The winners of special elections for state legislative seats often do not fare well in the general election — which Senate Democrats hope to change on Long Island.