Sentences with phrase «of legislative seats»

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

That's the largest turnover seen in New York State during the 1999 — 2010 period, at 22 percent of all legislative seats, and possibly the largest since the 1974 Watergate - influenced election.

Back in 2016, 45 percent of the legislative seats in the state were uncontested by one party or the other.

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.

More importantly, the renewed strength of Republicans in the states gives the GOP an important edge in the crucial process of the redistricting of legislative seats that begins next year.

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.

Chamber of Commerce and Industry of WA chief executive Deidre Willmott will not be a contender for Liberal Party endorsement for the Legislative Assembly seat of Cottesloe when the incumbent, former premier Colin Barnett, quits politics.

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.

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.

In state politics, Shepparton is located in the Legislative Assembly district of Shepparton which had been safely held by the National / Country Party since the seat was created in 1945.

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

Cantor predicted a slew of contested races at the local, state and federal levels in the coming year (recall that all the House and state legislative seats will be up for grabs with new district lines, which further boosts the possibility of competitive contests).

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.

The seats could determine which party controls the chamber by the end of the legislative session.

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.»

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.

Democratic candidates yesterday won two special elections for state legislative seats in the Northeast, another indication for the party that a blue wave is forming ahead of November's midterm elections.

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.

ALBANY — State government is bracing for a parade of corruption trials in 2018, with five cases involving powerful players going before juries at the same time that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and all 213 legislative seats are up for election.

In 2018, 6,066 legislative seats, or 82 percent of the total 7,383 legislative seats, are up in 46 states.

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

Kerns» legislative aide, Matthew Fisher, applied to the Council to fill the vacant seat representing South Buffalo and gained the endorsement of Democratic Party committeemen.

In November 2018, 87 of these 99 chambers are holding general elections for a total of 6,069 seats — roughly 82 percent of the total state legislative seats in the country.

Several Arakanese Indians were elected to Burmese native seats in the Legislative Council of Burma and Legislature of Burma.

The Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola, the seat of Nassau County government, is seen here.

Since World War II, the political party of an outgoing two - term president or consecutive political party administration has lost an average of 450 state legislative seats, excluding President Barack Obama.

New York state senators applaud a group visiting from the Queens borough of New York seated in the gallery during a legislative session May 8 in the Senate Chamber at the Capitol in Albany.

Last week, the Republican State Leadership Committee announced a plan to invest $ 3 million into the recruitment of 100 Hispanic candidates for state legislative seats across the nation in 2012.

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.

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

Republican Chris McGrath, who lost his bid in April for the Senate seat held by disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, is calling for first passage of the amendment, which is mired in legislative gridlock in the Assembly and Senate.

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.

Six Democrats are battling for the party's nomination to run for the lower Manhattan Assembly seat once held by Silver, making it one of the most closely watched and unpredictable contests in Tuesday's slate of state legislative primaries.

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

Altogether, 578 of the country's 7,384 state legislative seats were up for election in the off - election year.

Altogether, 6,125 of the country's 7,384 state legislative seats were up for re-election in the volatile election year.

Altogether, 538 (7.3 %) of the country's 7,383 state legislative seats were up for election.

McIntosh is enthusiastic about women's chances of picking up a few more Senate seats in 2014, and cites EMILY's List's work training 1,000 female candidates for state legislative races.

The Legislature's reapportionment plan reduced three legislative districts which reduced the size of the body to 17 seats.

Altogether, 6,057 (82.0 %) of the country's 7,383 state legislative seats were up for election during the midterm election year.

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

Altogether, 578 of the country's 7,384 state legislative seats were up for re-election in 2009.

Republican Party Chairman Rob Gleason called the one - seat loss a «sad day,» but said in a statement he remained confident that the leadership of incoming Gov. Tom Corbett and the new GOP legislative leadership «will result in more jobs and more opportunities for our Commonwealth to grow in the years ahead.»

Altogether, 6,015 (81.47 %) of the country's 7,383 state legislative seats were up for re-election during the presidential election year.

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

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

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.

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

A coalition of good - government, advocacy, labor and labor - aligned groups are urging U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer to enact fillibuster reform in the chamber, writing in a letter sent today that the delay tactic has hurt the legislative process in Washington and blocked federal judges from taking their seats.