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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.

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.

About two weeks before the general election, Governor Chris Christie (R) predicted that his party would retain its legislative seats on November 8.

History indicates the party of the president loses about 350 state legislative seats on average in midterm elections.

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The by - election will test whether the PCs have the ability and appeal to hold on to one of their nine remaining seats in the Legislative Assembly.

Cuomo administration officials confirm the governor will call special elections to fill five vacant legislative seats — four in the Assembly and one in the Senate — to conincide with village elections on March 20.

The legislative task force on redistricting met for the first time since Republicans, who are in charge of the Senate, announced that they would be seeking an additional 63rd Senate seat in the new district maps.

The race for the 37th District seat is one of 11 special legislative elections on Tuesday, April 24.

party is on track to win 400 legislative seats, another victory for the country's young president.

Since 1902, the president's party has been on the losing end of the battle for legislative seats in 27 of 29 midterm election cycles.

The Nassau County Charter stipulates that if a legislative vacancy occurs after May 1, a special election must be held to fill the seat on the day of the November general election.

Press questions were primarily «off topic,» with on topic questions covering the enrollment statistics and remaining available seats and whether legislative changes to the common core state standards will be an improvement for students, teachers and parents.

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.

Altogether, 220 of the country's 7,383 state legislative seats are up for re-election on November 5, 2013.

Legislative Republicans lost one seat on Election Day last Tuesday but maintain an 11 - 8 majority.

Progressives have even made inroads in less hospitable territory: On Tuesday in Nebraska, community organizer Kara Eastman beat a more moderate former congressman to win a Democratic primary for a House seat, and in western Pennsylvania, two Socialist candidates won Democratic primaries for legislative seats.

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.

Altogether, 220 of the country's 7,383 state legislative seats were up for re-election on November 5, 2013.

The special elections on Tuesday for the seats formerly held by Dean G. Skelos and Sheldon Silver, the two state legislative leaders who were forced to depart Albany after being convicted on corruption charges last year, were supposed to be a test of how long a shadow corruption could cast on a race.

These are some of the Democrats already moving: Mr. Kaminsky, a former prosecutor who is rumored to be eyeing a run for Mr. Skelos» Senate seat; Mr. Kavanagh, the leader of the reform caucus that emerged during the speaker's race; Mr. Perry, the chairman of the powerful Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus; Mr. Mosley, who took on his seat from now - Congressman Hakeem Jeffries and almost got the Caucus nod Mr. Perry did; Marcos Crespo, new Bronx Democratic chairman and close friend of Mr. Heastie; Mr. Blake, a former Obama staffer from the resurgent Bronx; and Ms. Rozic, who at the time of her election was the youngest woman ever elected to the Assembly.

An ad from the National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action warns that Democratic former Sen. Evan Bayh, who's seeking his old seat against GOP Rep. Todd Young in Indiana, would help Clinton fill another seat on the Supreme Court.

Democratic primaries for one legislative seat and single council seat will take place on Sept. 12.

PLATTSBURGH — Clinton County Legislative Chair Harry McManus (Area 1) announced on Thursday that the county will call a special election to fill a vacant seat on the Clinton County Legislature.

Nassau County legislative leaders talk about a new law proposed by majority Republicans on Monday, May 1, 2017, that would bar individuals convicted of felonies involving public corruption from running for county office or holding a county - appointed board or commission seat.

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.

Gianaris said he and Libous, who lost his seat last year in a corruption conviction, used to share score updates and news on the Mets during slow periods in the legislative session.

He is out of office, Preet has another notch on his gun, and the Republican corruption belies any claim they have on any of their legislative seats.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday injected one final issue into the end of the legislative session with a bill that would remake the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority with two new seats controlled by the state.

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.

Seeking to capitalize on the excitement among Republican potential donors after Scott Brown's stunning capture of a Senate seat in Massachusetts last week, two independent groups focused on helping the party regain state legislative majorities before next year's nationwide redistricting are significantly ramping up their efforts.

Only 26 percent of New York state legislative seats are held by women, putting the state 20th in the country for female representation on that level.

In a year where Cuomo and all 213 of the state's legislative seats are up for reelection, it's not a big surprise that the legislative session would focus on tax cuts.

Term limits can often have an impact on the competitiveness of a state legislative election because term limits create open seats.

New York state senators applaud a group visiting from the Queens borough of New York seated in the gallery during a legislative session in the Senate Chamber at the Capitol on Monday in Albany, N.Y.

On Monday, leaders of the Democratic legislative majority at the Capitol outraged good - government advocates with a proposal to suspend the clean - elections program for the 2016 campaign in which the 187 state House and Senate seats are up for grabs.

Mike Anagnostakis, another Republican rumored to be interested in the seat should Larkin retire, hasn't created a Senate committee yet, but is sitting on $ 266,633 in an Orange County legislative account that could be easily transferred.

A special election to fill the legislative seat of the late Nassau County Legislator Judy Jacobs of Woodbury will be held on Election Day, Nov. 8, County Executive Edward Mangano announced.

New York's state legislative primaries will be held on Tuesday, with battles for the nomination in Adriano Espaillat's Senate seat and the district formerly represented by Sheldon Silver up for grabs.

TIM KELLY FILE PHOTO Al Krupski won the special legislative election and he resigned from his seat on the Southold Town Board.

Jacobs enclosed an absentee ballot in his memo and pressed his committeemen — who were elected to a new two - year term last month — to vote in Tuesday's election, in which the district attorney, all three town supervisors and 19 county legislative seats are on the ballot.

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.

It's not clear yet how, exactly, the respective nominees will be picked, but since the race for the First Legislative District seat will come in the form of a special election to fill the remaining year on Mr. Romaine's term, there are no options to run a primary.

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.

Based on nominations from both major parties, almost half the 23 county legislative seats will go uncontested this fall unless party committees on vacancies can find some warm bodies before mid-July.

But, when it comes to other major Obama legislative initiatives, there's no guarantee that all 58 Democrats (or 59 if entertainer Al Franken winds up being seated in the Minnesota race) stick together or that the same trio of GOPers can be relied on to cross party lines.

Besides Presidential Candidate Jill Stein and running mate Cheri Honkala, Arkansas voters will see Greens on the ballot for all four seats in the House of Representatives, plus two state legislative seats and 8 more local races.

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...

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

At the Republican Party election night bash at the Holiday Inn, while his county counterparts celebrated holding on to their legislative majority and District Attorney Holley Carnright's massive re-election win, Sinagra had to console himself with a status quo — maintaining two seats on the Common Council — while lamenting what might have been.