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Following the New York Court of Appeals' December 2023 decision in Hoffman v New York State Ind. Redistricting. Commn. , [ 8 ] the New York State Legislature drew new congressional district maps to be used beginning in the 2024 elections.
Here is how New York voters can register, find poll sites and get absentee ballots for weighty 2024 elections for president, Congress and state seats.
The New York State Republicans challenged the ruling to the Court of Appeals, who ruled on December 12, 2023, that the maps must be redrawn by the legislature and I.R.C. for the 2024 elections. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] On February 27, 2024, the New York State Legislature voted to reject the bipartisan map and instead favored redrawing the map for Democrats.
People wait to cast their votes at Hudson Yards, in New York City, last Saturday. As of Monday, 2.8 million people had voted in New York state. In 2020, 8.6 million ballots were cast there.
Elections for all 150 state assembly districts were held. This was the first election in which a new district map, drawn by Democratic legislators, was used. However, a judge ruled that this map was unconstitutional, and that a new map had to be drawn by the 2024 election. [23]
In New York electoral politics, there are numerous minor parties at various points on the political spectrum. Certain parties will invariably endorse either the Republican or Democratic candidate for every office; hence, the state electoral results contain both the party votes, and the final candidate votes (Listed as "Recap").
Districts for this election were redrawn pursuant to court order in Nichols v. Hochul, [1] though the lines passed by the Independent Redistricting Commission and the state legislature on April 28, 2023, were nearly identical to the 2022 districts. [2] Democrats have held a majority in the New York State Assembly since 1975.
In 2008, Michael Arcuri won the election with 130,799 votes (9,454 from Working Families Party line) to Richard L. Hanna's 120,880 out of 282,114 total votes. Note that in New York State electoral politics there are several minor parties at various points on the political spectrum.