Sentences with phrase «special district races»
The lion's share of municipal, school board, township and special district races do not have candidates with party IDs and do not involve partisan primaries.
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The re-election campaign committee for Gov. Andrew Cuomo donated $ 11,000 to the state Senate campaign of Democrat Barbara Fiala, who is running an uphill race for a special election to fill a vacant Binghamton - area district.
A special election being held next could add Chris McGrath, but he is locked in a tight race with Democratic Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky for the district formerly led by disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos.
The Democrat and Republican in a special House election in the heart of Pennsylvania's Trump country were divided by a few hundred votes in a race that was too close to call early this morning — an ominous sign for Republicans in a district that the president won by nearly 20 percentage points.
Two Senate races are being decided in the special election, but the key race will be the 37th district in Westchester County, a race between Democrat Shelley Mayer and Republican Julie Killian.
From the outset, it has been clear that next Tuesday's special election in New York's 37th State Senate District is no ordinary contest; the race in Westchester County will help determine the balance of power in Albany.
The race for the 37th District seat is one of 11 special legislative elections on Tuesday, April 24.
Trump carried this north - central Ohio seat by 11 points, but after watching Republicans lose a district that backed the president by 20 points (the old Pennsylvania's 18th) and struggle to win another that he won by 21 points (Arizona's 8th), that's enough evidence to move the Aug. 7 special election race in a more competitive district.
Most local races, however, for municipal office, special districts, school boards, and township offices are formally non-partisan.
«Five weeks until Election Day, and this special election is a wide - open race with both candidates trying to become more known to the voters of the district and earn their support,» Siena pollster Steven Greenberg said.
Super PACS and special interest groups from Washington, D.C., will be filling mail boxes and saturating the airwaves because the 24th Congressional District election remains one of the most competitive House races in the nation.
The race for the 37th Senate District — which will be decided in a special election slated by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, on April 24 — is considered a crucial one for both Democrats and Republicans, who currently maintain a slim one - seat majority in the Senate.
LOWER MANHATTAN — Democratic candidate Alice Cancel won a tight race in the special election for disgraced former Assemblyman Sheldon Silver's 65th District seat.
The attorney for Republican election officials in Nassau County said Friday that Christopher McGrath, the party's candidate in the special election in the 9th State Senate District, had been «mathematically eliminated» in his race against Democrat Todd Kaminsky.
Gerratana shook up New Britain politics in 2011 by soundly beating then - Mayor Timothy Stewart in a special midwinter race for the 6th District seat, which encompasses New Britain and section of Farmington and Berlin.
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.
Owens, who has held office since winning a special election last fall against Hoffman and Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, whose name was on the ballot even though she has been forced out of the race due to her moderate views, has a higher name recognition in the district.
The attorney for Republican election officials in Nassau County said that Christopher McGrath, the party's candidate in the special election in the 9th state senate district, had been «mathematically eliminated» in his race against Democrat Todd Kaminsky.
But the mechanics of the race are tricky, given the special election for 9th district will appear on a separate ballot from the presidential primary.
Fidler already has high name recognition and a good reputation in the district, and there's not much time for Storobin to raise his profile, which will be critically important in a special election where voters are paying even less attention to a state Senate race than in November.
In a statement, Diaz says since the vote to legalize same sex marriage, Republicans have won special elections for legislative races, even in Democratic dominated districts.
In addition to the two Senate races, there was also a special election in the House of Representatives to fill a vacancy in the 115th District created when Democrat Steve Dargan of West Haven stepped down to take an appointment on the Board of Pardons and Paroles.
Democrat Margaret Good took a firm fundraising lead in the House District 72 race just days ahead of Tuesday's special election for the Sarasota - based seat.
I asked whether he would consider the possibility — he today announced the endorsement of Tom Long, the Queens County Conservative Party chairman and the brother Mike Long, the statewide party boss — in light of a special election in the 23rd Congressional district, where a surging Conservative candidate forced Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava from the race.
(CNN)- As the race in New York's 20th congressional district continues to tighten, the Republican National Committee is sending another $ 100,000 to the state party in New York - the second time in less than a week it's spent that sum on the special election contest there.
The candidates made their final push Tuesday, urging voters to cast their ballots in the 73rd Assembly District's special election race.
Six Council Candidates Race Towards February 23 Special Election On Wednesday, the city's Campaign Finance Board reported that the first disbursement of $ 34,741 in matching funds was distributed to Council District 17 candidate Rev. J. Loren Russell.
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.
Democrats and Republicans have identified the 22nd Congressional District race as one of their top priorities in the 2018 mid-term election, and the national parties and special - interest groups are expected to spend millions on the race.
Newell, a community organizer and District Leader for Lower Manhattan and the Lower East Side, is running in a six - way race that includes incumbent Alice Cancel, who won a special election earlier this year to replace Sheldon Silver.
In Florida's 19th District special election, businessman Curt Clawson faced his toughest race back in April, when he secured the GOP nod to replace ex-Rep.
Early this morning, after Espaillat pronounced the race «too close to call,» Rangel released a (carefully) written statement in which he expressed gratitude to the voters of the district «for this special privilege to continue serving my beloved community and friends.»
While Gov. Rick Scott has not yet called for a special election in Senate District 16, which covers Pinellas and Pasco counties, former four - term state Rep. Ed Hooper — a Clearwater Republican who has been campaigning for the seat for months — still is the front - runner in the race.
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.
(CNN)- The Republican National Committee said Thursday it is pumping more cash into the March 31 special election contest in New York's 20th congressional district, transferring $ 100,000 to the New York State Republican Committee, as a new poll shows sliding support for the GOP candidate in that race.
(CNN)- Democrat Bill Owens may have won last night's special election in New York's 23rd congressional district - but Sarah Palin said Wednesday that race «is not over.»
There are also several special elections that could bring more 1st District voters out to the polls than in previous mid-term years, including a race for county comptroller and a seat on the Brookhaven Town Board.
Rep. - elect Mark Critz's (D) surprisingly wide margin in the Pennsylvania 12th district special election last night is a testament to the fact that the DCCC — from Chairman Chris Van Hollen (Md.) to executive director Jon Vogel, communications director Jennifer Crider and the entire independent expenditure operation — knows how to win close races in tough districts.
(If Republicans swing and miss at these two races, they're likely to have a third chance in a special election for former New York Rep. Eric Massa's 29th district although Gov. David Paterson has yet to set a special election date.)
For them, the race for the White House is secondary to a special election for Long Island's 9th Senate District seat, which was vacated when former GOP Majority Leader Dean Skelos was convicted of corruption in December.
Moya, a former secretary to the Senate under Gov. David Paterson, took 67 percent of the vote in his race against Monserrate for the empty 39th Assembly District seat, which had been left vacant after Sen. Jose Peralta (D - East Elmhurst) won Monserrate's old seat in the Senate in a March special election.
(CNN)- Democratic congressional candidate Janice Hahn is leaving nothing on the table in her race to succeed former Rep. Jane Harman (D) in next month's special election for California's 36th district.
The upstate New York House district in which a three - way special election helped ignite the national tea party movement last year is headed for another contentious race in November.
«Five weeks until Election Day and this special election is a wide - open race with both candidates trying to become more known to the voters of the district and earn their support,» said Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg.
The special election race in New York's 20th district between state Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R) and venture capitalist Scott Murphy (D) is a dead heat — literally.
The Republican National Committee is going up on television with ads in support of New York state Assemblyman Jim Tedisco in his special election bid in the state's 20th district, an early sign that newly elected chairman Michael Steele plans to wade into downballot races to reassert the party's competitiveness across the country and in the northeast in particular.
Ricketts said the resolution was sparked in large part by the contentious special election in New York's 23rd congressional district, in which a third party candidate, Doug Hoffman, entered the race as an conservative alternative to the moderate Republican candidate, Dede Scozzafava.
Districts also would be able to compete for some $ 200 million in special state grants, under a New York version of the federal Race to the Top program.
AD46 Assembly District 46 is represented by Assemblymember Pamela Harris, who won a special election last year and is in a tight race with challenger Kate Cucco to represent residents of southern Brooklyn including Bay Ridge, Fort Hamilton, and Coney Island.
From the outset, it has been clear that Tuesday's special election in New York's 37th State Senate District is no ordinary contest; the race in Westchester County will help determine the balance of power in Albany.