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This past Tuesday Pat Ryan, D-Gardiner, held his victory party at the Best Western Plus Kingston Hotel And Conference Center in Kingston as he became the newly elected Congressman of District 18. Ryan defeated Republican opponent, Colin Schmitt, R-New Windsor, in a very close race winning by less than 1 […]
With all but one election district reporting, Lee Zeldin issued a concession statement Wednesday afternoon congratulating Gov. Kathy Hochul for her winning a full four-year term. The Long Island Republican also said “those controlling Albany” should take note of the 2,694,086 New Yorkers who voted for him, representing 46.77 percent […]
The results are in for the congressional districts spanning the five boroughs of New York City. While Democrats maintained their House seats most of New York City, Congressional District 11, which comprises all of Staten Island and part of southern Brooklyn, has crowned Republican Nicole Malliotakis winner for the second […]
Progressive Democrat Sarahana Shrestha won the 103rd Assembly seat Tuesday, defeating Republican Patrick Sheehan. According to the New York State Board of Elections, Shrestha won with 59 percent of the votes compared to Sheehan’s 38 percent. The 103rd Assembly District includes parts of Ulster and Dutchess counties in the Hudson […]
The 2022 midterm elections, held this Tuesday, saw New York’s Hudson Valley become the frontline in what observers are calling a battleground state. In districts, now redrawn, that went to President Biden in 2020, Republicans have picked up two seats in Congress, and deposed DCCC Chair Sean Patrick Maloney, D-Cold […]
Pat Ryan declared victory around 2 a.m. Wednesday morning to become the congressman for New York’s newly drawn District 18. Out of 490,458 active registered voters in the district, the New York State Board of Elections determined that 265,936 total votes were cast. Ryan received 49.37 percent of votes and […]
Gov. Kathy Hochul has defeated Republican challenger Lee Zeldin to become the first woman elected governor of New York. “You made me the first woman ever to be elected as the governor of the state of New York” Hochul said Tuesday night during her victory speech at Capitale in Chinatown. […]
New York voters overwhelmingly approved $4.2 billion in new borrowing to fund the Clean Water, Clean Air and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act by a margin of 59 percent to 29 percent, with 12 percent leaving the ballot question blank. The bond act will direct funds to four major areas: […]
