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The 2024 New York State Senate election was held on November 5, 2024. [1] Primary elections were held on June 25, 2024. [ 2 ] In this election, the Democratic Party retained its State Senate majority, but lost its veto-proof (two-thirds) majority after it lost one seat in the election for the 17th Senate district.
In 1999, Tedisco worked to pass Buster's Law, which protected pets by making animal cruelty a felony, and in 2011 advocated for New York State Animal Advocacy Day. [17] In 2014, Tedisco sponsored a successful constitutional amendment, Proposition 2, that would replace bill printouts with digital copies of bills. [18]
In 2019, Cuomo again called for a conditional amendment to protect abortion rights in the state at an event with Hillary Clinton at Barnard College, after the Democratic Party took back control of the New York State Senate in the 2018 election, and shortly before the passage of the Reproductive Health Act. [12] [13]
On this date, the State of New York held elections for the following offices: all 26 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, all 63 seats in the New York State Senate and all 150 seats in the New York State Assembly. The 2024 United States presidential election and the 2024 election for U.S. Senate occurred on the same date as the general ...
The 2022 New York state elections took place on November 8, 2022. On this date, the State of New York held elections for the following offices: Governor and Lieutenant Governor (on one ticket), Attorney General, Comptroller, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, New York State Senate, New York State Assembly, and various others. Primary ...
New York politics have recently been dominated by downstate areas such as Westchester County, New York City and Long Island, where a majority of the state's population resides. Before the appointment of Kirsten Gillibrand to the Senate in 2009, the most recent US Senator from upstate was Charles Goodell , appointed to fill out the remainder of ...
In both 2006 and 2007, bills were introduced in the New York Legislature to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and award the state's 31 electoral votes to the winner of the nationwide popular vote. The majority in the Legislature voted against both proposals. The legislation did pass in 2014, and New York joined the compact. [4]
The 204th New York State Legislature consists of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly. It has been in session since January 2021, during the administrations of Governor Andrew Cuomo and Governor Kathy Hochul