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Retired to run for Borough President of Staten Island. Michael McMahon : Democratic: January 1, 2002 – December 31, 2008 Elected in 2001. Re-elected in 2003. Re-elected in 2005. Resigned after being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Vacant December 31, 2008 – March 19, 2009 Kenneth Mitchell : Democratic: March 19, 2009 –
Historically, the most conservative district in the city is that based in Staten Island and southern Brooklyn; until 2013 called New York's 13th congressional district. The district has been a reliably red bastion in a deep blue city, sending a Republican to Congress in every election since 1980 except 2008 and 2018.
The 2009 election for Mayor of New York City took place on Tuesday, November 3. The incumbent Mayor, Michael Bloomberg , an independent who left the Republican Party in 2008, won reelection on the Republican and Independence Party /Jobs & Education lines with 50.7% of the vote over the retiring City Comptroller , Bill Thompson , a Democrat ...
New York's 11th congressional district is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in New York City.The 11th district includes all of Staten Island and parts of southern Brooklyn, including the neighborhoods of Bay Ridge, Bath Beach, Dyker Heights, south western Gravesend, western Sheepshead Bay, and parts of southern Bensonhurst.
The 2015 special election saw Dan Donovan, the incumbent Staten Island District Attorney run unopposed in the Republican primaries. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Donovan would defeat Vincent J. Gentile , a member of the New York City Council for the 43rd District (in Brooklyn) with 58.33% of the vote to his 40.11%.
During this off-year election, the only seats up for election in the United States Congress were special elections held throughout the year. In total, only the seat representing New York's 23rd congressional district changed party hands, increasing the Democratic Party 's majority over the Republicans in the United States House of ...
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In the general election, Cuomo kept Staten Island and won back Queens, but lost the other three boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn and The Bronx) to Koch. In the Republican primary, Roy M. Goodman , a member of the New York State Senate , defeated Barry Farber , a radio commentator, by a vote of 41,131 to 31,078(57.0% to 43.0%).