Sentences with phrase «won special elections»

Democrats won both special elections on April 24, giving them a 32 - 31 numerical majority with Republicans still in control of the chamber through their alliance with Felder.

The New York state Senate met for the first time Wednesday since two Democrats won special elections held Tuesday.

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.

Rep. John J. Duncan Jr., R - Tenn., and Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D - N.J., won special elections in 1988.

Meanwhile, Republicans officially fell into a mathematical minority on Monday with the swearing in of Democratic Sens. Shelley Mayer and Luis Sepvulveda, who both won special elections last Tuesday.

Republican Rep. Bobby Olszewski, who won a special election in Orange County in October, sent a letter to Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby on Wednesday, asking to keep the schools «at the top of mind.»

Coming off of a big, successful season (UConn went to the Fiesta Bowl, Manchin won a special election to replace Robert Byrd), it is a bit of a retooling season for Manchin.

Manhattan Democratic Party Chair Keith Wright, who abdicated his Assembly seat last year to unsuccessfully pursue retired Rep. Charles Rangel's post, confirmed he's interested in running to replace Sen. Bill Perkins, who is expected to win a special election to fill the NYC Council vacancy created when Assemblywoman Inez Dickens was elected to Wright's old seat.

The battle to reunify Democrats in the Senate was sparked in part by the addition of Brian Benjamin, who won a special election last month to fill a vacant seat and giving the party 32 enrolled members again the Senate.

One of Mychajliw's favorite targets, since winning a special election to occupy the office for one year, is Erie County Executive and former County Comptroller Mark Poloncarz.

Kaminsky, elected to fill the chair held by disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, won a special election and won a full term in a presidential election year.

This month in Albany two new Democrats took seats in the Legislature after winning special elections in the Senate and Assembly.

Three years later, he won a special election to the Senate, filling a seat vacated by Supreme Court Justice Thomas McGowan.

Richards won a special election in 2011 to replace now Lt. Governor Bob Duffy.

Whoever wins the special election will take office immediately and won't have to wait until January 2011 like most of the general election victors.

Whoever wins the special election will have to run again in a primary and a general election in the new so - called «Super-Jewish» district that has a far higher concentration of Orthodox voters the 27th SD currently does.

Golden defeated Gentile in 2002 with the help of nearly $ 4 million from the Senate GOP, and Gentile, who spent about half a million dollars on his Senate campaign, subsequently won a special election for the NYC Council seat Golden vacated to move up to the Senate.

Tom Schiliro, Assembly District 2, Suffolk County (Challenger)-- Schiliro, an active two - decade veteran of the Suffolk County Park Police and a teacher, is challenging Anthony Palumbo, who won a special election last November, for the Assembly seat representing this North Fork district.

A handful of more current House members won special election races at least 20 years ago including California Democrat Sam Farr (1993), Texas Republican Sam Johnson (1991), Oklahoma Republican Frank D. Lucas (1994), New York Democrat Jerrold Nadler (1992), Florida Republican Ileana Ros - Lehtinen (1989), New York Democrat José E. Serrano (1990), and Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson (1993).

She served a year prior to that after winning a special election.

Conor Lamb, who recently won a special election in a conservative district in Pennsylvania, took a similar approach — private moral opposition matched with public support for the legal right.

The lone loser: David Storobin, a Brooklyn Republican who was bounced in November 2012 after winning a special election.

Simanowitz won the special election for the seat in September after his former boss and predecessor, Nettie Mayersohn, 86, announced her retirement from the Assembly after 28 years in office.

Democrat Luis Sepúlveda won a special election for a seat on the State Senate in the 32nd senatorial district last night, easily defeating his two challengers.

Manhattan District 9 (Harlem): Incumbent Bill Perkins, a former State Senator, won a special election to the seat earlier this year.

Schiliro, an active two - decade veteran of the Suffolk County Park Police and a teacher, is challenging Anthony Palumbo, who won a special election last November, for the Assembly seat representing this North Fork district.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — With Assemblyman Mickey Kearns winning the special election for Erie County Clerk, some current elected officials in South Buffalo are already exploring the possibility of replacing him in the Assembly.

Crowley defeated former Councilman Anthony Como in the 2008 election after Como won a special election earlier that year to replace disgraced Councilman Dennis Gallagher.

Djou won the special election to fill the seat left vacant by Neil Abercrombie, who resigned the office to run for governor of Hawaii.

Perkins, an upper Manhattan Democrat, won a special election in February, vacating his seat on the state Senate.

The incumbent not seeking re-election is Rep. Bob Turner, who wasn't elected in the 2010 midterms, but won a special election in 2011 for ex-Rep.

Lois Capps won a special election to succeed him.)

As an independent, he then won the special election to succeed himself, but resigned again to run for the Senate seat due to Republicans» strong control of the state House.

District 9 incumbent Bill Perkins, a former State Senator who won a special election in February to replace Inez Dickins when she was elected to the State Assembly, won a full term on the City Council.

Assemblywoman Alice Cancel (D - Manhattan) currently holds the seat after winning a special election in April to fill out Silver's term.

Assemblyman Michael Miller (D - Woodhaven), who won a special election last year to replace disgraced former Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio, is being challenged on two fronts in his quest to win re-election.

Democrat Todd Kaminsky won a special election on Long Island in April to fill the vacancy created when Dean Skelos was convicted of a felony.

Yuh - Line Niou defeated Alice Cancel, who won a special election earlier this year to replace Silver.

It's doubtful that Recchia could win a special election, even if Bill Cosby ran as the Republican.

He won a special election in April for the seat formerly occupied by Dean Skelos, the one - time Republican majority leader who was forced from office by a corruption conviction.

Mr. Mitchell, who won the special election to the Council in February, is looking to play the spoiler in what has been celebrated as the ascension of the first African - American elected official from Staten Island.

Murray took office in 2010 after winning a special election.

Miller has been a member of the New York State Assembly since 2009, when he won a special election [3] held after the resignation of former Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A new Democrat - commissioned poll predicts that in all scenarios presented, Republican District Attorney Daniel Donovan would win a special election for Congress over Democrat Assemblyman Michael Cusick if they are the two candidates.

Carter won the special election with 53 percent of the vote.

She won a special election for the office in November 2011, following her defeat in 2010 for such office by then - state Senator Vincent L. Leibell.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan issued a statement Wednesday evening saying that the Senate Republican Conference continues to hold the majority in the Senate and expressing 100 percent confidence that the GOP will win the special election in the 52nd Senate district.

One to watch is in the northern part of New York where Rep. Bill Owens, who won a special election in 2009, will face off for the second time against Watertown Republican Matt Doheny.

The Republican wave that swept across Suffolk County Tuesday didn't stop short of Southold, where GOP incumbent Dave Bergen won a special election for an abbreviated term on the town's Board of Trustees.

Kathy Hochul, a Democrat from western New York who surprisingly won a special election in a majority Republican district in 2011, once again voted «no» on the repeal.