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2008 United States House Of Representatives Elections In New York
The 2008 congressional elections in New York were held on November 4, 2008 to determine representation in the state of New York in the United States House of Representatives. New York has 29 seats in the House, apportioned according to the 2000 United States Census. Representatives are elected for two-year terms; those elected will serve in the 111th Congress from January 4, 2009 until January 3, 2011. The election coincided with the 2008 U.S. presidential election in which Democrat Barack Obama defeated Republican John McCain by a wide margin. The districts with congressional races not forecast as "safe" for the incumbent party were New York's congressional districts 13, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26 and 29. The Democratic Party gained three seats in New York's congressional delegation in the 2008 elections. In New York's 13th congressional district, Democrat Michael McMahon defeated Robert Straniere to win the seat vacated by Republican Rep. Vito Fossella. In New York's 25th con ...
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United States House Of Representatives Elections
Elections in the United States are held for Official, government officials at the Federal government of the United States, federal, State governments of the United States, state, and Local government in the United States, local levels. At the federal level, the nation's head of state, the President of the United States, president, is elected indirectly by the people of each U.S. state, state, through an United States Electoral College, Electoral College. Today, these electors almost always vote with the popular vote of their state. All members of the federal legislature, the United States Congress, Congress, are directly elected by the people of each state. There are many elected offices at state level, each state having at least an elective Governor (United States), governor and State legislature (United States), legislature. There are also elected offices at the local level, in County (United States), counties, cities, towns, townships, boroughs, and villages; as well as for ...
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Dan Maffei
Daniel Benjamin Maffei ( ; born July 4, 1968) is an American politician and professor who was the United States representative for from 2013 to 2015. Maffei previously represented the district, then numbered as , from 2009 to 2011. He has also worked as a senior adviser at law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. On November 6, 2012, Maffei defeated incumbent 25th district Republican Ann Marie Buerkle in the race for the redistricted 24th, avenging his 2010 loss. Maffei lost his 2014 reelection campaign to Republican nominee John Katko. He served as Commissioner of the Federal Maritime Commission from 2016 to 2018 and was re-appointed in November 2018 to a term ending in 2022. During the four month lapse in his Maritime Commissioner post, Maffei was a professor of practice at George Washington University. Early life, education, and early career Maffei was born in Syracuse and currently resides there. He graduated from Nottingham Senior High School in 1986, and continued on to receiv ...
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New York's 6th Congressional District
New York's 6th congressional district is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in New York City, located entirely within Queens. It is represented by Democrat Grace Meng. A plurality of the district's population is Asian-American, and a majority of its population is non-white. The district includes several racially and ethnically diverse Queens neighborhoods, including Auburndale, Bayside, Elmhurst, Flushing, Forest Hills, Glendale, Kew Gardens, Maspeth, Middle Village, Murray Hill, and Rego Park. After redistricting, in 2023 the district will include sections of Jackson Heights and Astoria which were previously part of NY-14. Voting History 1789–1913: :Parts of Manhattan 1913-1945: :Parts of Brooklyn 1945-1973: :Parts of Queens 1973-1983: :Parts of Nassau, Queens 1983–present: :Parts of Queens Various New York districts have been numbered "6" over the years, including areas in New York City and various parts of upstate N ...
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New York's 5th Congressional District
The 5th congressional district of New York is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives, represented by Democrat Gregory Meeks. The district is located in Queens. A plurality of the district's population is African-American, and a majority of the district's population is non-white. The district includes the entire Rockaway Peninsula as well as the Queens neighborhoods of Broad Channel, Cambria Heights, Hollis, Howard Beach, Jamaica, Kew Gardens, Laurelton, Queens Village, Richmond Hill, Rosedale, Saint Albans, Springfield Gardens, and South Ozone Park, as well as John F. Kennedy International Airport. Voting History 1789–1913: :Parts of Manhattan 1913–45: :Parts of Brooklyn 1945–63: :Parts of Queens 1963–93: :Parts of Nassau 1993–2003: :Parts of Nassau, Queens, Suffolk 2003–2023: :Parts of Nassau, Queens 2023—: :Parts of Queens Various New York districts have been numbered "5" over the years, including areas in New York C ...
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New York's 4th Congressional District
The 4th congressional district of New York is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in central and southern Nassau County, represented by Democrat Kathleen Rice since 2015. After Rice's term ends in 2023, Republican Anthony D'Esposito will represent the district. The district includes the communities of Elmont, Baldwin, Bellmore, East Rockaway, East Meadow, Five Towns, Lynbrook, Floral Park, Franklin Square, Garden City, Garden City Park, Hempstead, Atlantic Beach, Long Beach, Malverne, Freeport, Merrick, Carle Place, New Hyde Park, Oceanside, Rockville Centre, Roosevelt, Uniondale, Wantagh, West Hempstead, Westbury, and Valley Stream. NY-04 is the second-wealthiest congressional district in New York, and among the wealthiest nationally. Voting History *1789–1913: :Parts of Manhattan *1913–1945: :Parts of Brooklyn *1945–1963: :Parts of Queens *1963–present: :Parts of Nassau County In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s mu ...
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New York's 3rd Congressional District
New York's 3rd congressional district is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in the State of New York. It is represented by Democrat Tom Suozzi, who has been in office since 2017. In the 2022 election, Republican George Santos was elected to represent the district and is tentatively scheduled to start January 3, 2023. The district includes part of the North Shore of Long Island. It expands across northern Nassau County and into far northeastern Queens. Long Island communities in the district include, Oyster Bay Cove, Old Brookville, Levittown, Glen Cove, Roslyn, Manhasset, Plainview, Bethpage, Port Washington, Hicksville, Mineola, Farmingdale, Massapequa Park, and Great Neck. Queens neighborhoods in the district include Little Neck, Whitestone, Glen Oaks, Floral Park, and Queens Village. NY-03 is the wealthiest congressional district in New York, and among the wealthiest nationally. Recent statewide election results History Th ...
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New York's 2nd Congressional District
New York's 2nd congressional district is a List of United States congressional districts, congressional district for the United States House of Representatives along the South Shore (Long Island), South Shore of Long Island, New York (state), New York. It includes southwestern Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk County and a small portion of southeastern Nassau County, New York, Nassau County. The district is currently represented by United States Republican Party, Republican Andrew Garbarino. Nassau County communities in the 2nd district include Levittown, New York, Levittown, North Wantagh, New York, North Wantagh, Seaford, New York, Seaford, South Farmingdale, New York, South Farmingdale and Massapequa, New York, Massapequa. Suffolk County communities include Amityville, New York, Amityville, Copiague, New York, Copiague, Lindenhurst, New York, Lindenhurst, Gilgo, New York, Gilgo, West Babylon, New York, West Babylon, Wyandanch, New York, Wyandanch, North Babylon, New York, Nor ...
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New York's 1st Congressional District
The 1st congressional district of New York is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in eastern Long Island. It includes the eastern two-thirds of Suffolk County, including most of Smithtown, as well as the entirety of the towns of Brookhaven, Riverhead, Southold, Southampton, East Hampton, and Shelter Island. The district encompasses extremely wealthy enclaves such as the Hamptons, middle class suburban towns such as Selden, Centereach and Lake Grove, working-class towns such as Mastic, Shirley, and Riverhead and rural farming communities such as Mattituck and Jamesport on the North Fork. The district currently is represented by Republican Lee Zeldin. Zeldin as the 2022 Republican NY gubernatorial candidate is not up for reelection. The district has been a swing district since the 1990s and a Republican-leaning seat since the 2010s. President George W. Bush defeated challenger John Kerry by less than a percentage point in 2004, wh ...
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Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP ("Grand Old Party"), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. The GOP was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists who opposed the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which allowed for the potential expansion of chattel slavery into the western territories. Since Ronald Reagan's presidency in the 1980s, conservatism has been the dominant ideology of the GOP. It has been the main political rival of the Democratic Party since the mid-1850s. The Republican Party's intellectual predecessor is considered to be Northern members of the Whig Party, with Republican presidents Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur, and Benjamin Harrison all being Whigs before switching to the party, from which they were elected. The collapse of the Whigs, which had previously been one of the two major parties in the country, strengthened the party's electoral success. Upon its founding, it supported c ...
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Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Founded in 1828, it was predominantly built by Martin Van Buren, who assembled a wide cadre of politicians in every state behind war hero Andrew Jackson, making it the world's oldest active political party.M. Philip Lucas, "Martin Van Buren as Party Leader and at Andrew Jackson's Right Hand." in ''A Companion to the Antebellum Presidents 1837–1861'' (2014): 107–129."The Democratic Party, founded in 1828, is the world's oldest political party" states Its main political rival has been the Republican Party since the 1850s. The party is a big tent, and though it is often described as liberal, it is less ideologically uniform than the Republican Party (with major individuals within it frequently holding widely different political views) due to the broader list of unique voting blocs that compose it. The historical predecessor of the Democratic Party is considered to be th ...
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New York's Congressional Districts
The U.S. state of New York currently comprises 26 congressional districts. Each district elects one member of the United States House of Representatives who sits on its behalf. The state was redistricted in 2022, following the 2020 U.S. census; it lost one seat in Congress. The loss of a congressional seat was decided by a remarkably close margin in the census count; it was believed that if 89 more people were counted in the census results and all other state populations remained stagnant, New York would have kept its lost seat. Current districts and representatives List of members of the New York United States House delegation, district boundaries, and district political ratings, according to the CPVI. The delegation has a total of 27 members, with nineteen Democrats and eight Republicans, as of 2022. Historical district locations Note: There are now 62 counties in New York (state). The counties that are not mentioned in this list had not yet been established, or suffici ...
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United States Congressional Delegations From New York
These are tables of United States Congress, congressional delegations from New York (state), New York to the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. The current dean of the New York delegation is United States Senate, Senator and Party leaders of the United States Senate, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, having served in the Senate since 1999 and in Congress since 1981. U.S. House of Representatives Current members This is a list of members of the current New York delegation in the U.S. House, along with their respective tenures in office, district boundaries, and district political ratings according to the CPVI. The delegation has a total of 27 members, including 19 Democratic Party (United States), Democrats and 8 Republican Party (United States), Republicans. 1789–1793: 6 seats 1793–1803: 10 seats 1803–1813: 17 seats From 1805 to 1809, the 2nd and 3rd districts jointly elected two representatives. 1813–1823: 27 seats ...
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