New York's 49th State Assembly District
New York's 49th State Assembly district is one of the 150 districts in the New York State Assembly. It has been represented by Lester Chang since 2023. Geography District 49 is in Brooklyn. It contains portions of Dyker Heights, Sunset Park, Borough Park and Bensonhurst. The district overlaps (partially) with New York's 9th, 10th and 11th congressional districts, the 17th, 22nd and 26th districts of the New York State Senate, and the 38th, 43rd and 47th districts of the New York City Council. 2010s District 49 is in Brooklyn. It contains portions of Dyker Heights, Sunset Park, and Bensonhurst Bensonhurst is a residential neighborhood in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bordered on the northwest by 14th Avenue, on the northeast by 60th Street, on the southeast by Avenue P and 22nd .... Recent election results 2022 2020 2018 2016 2014 2012 20 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lester Chang
Lester Chang is an American politician who is the member of the New York's 49th State Assembly district; he defeated longtime Democratic incumbent Peter J. Abbate Jr. in the 2022 New York State Assembly election. Political career Chang first ran in the 2016 special election in the 65th Assembly district to succeed Sheldon Silver following his resignation due to a corruption scandal. He placed third to Yuh-Line Niou and Alice Cancel. He then ran in 2020 in the 26th State Senate district. He placed second to the incumbent Brian Kavanagh. Following his election to the New York State Assembly, the Brooklyn Democratic Party attempted to block Chang from sitting in Albany, demanding an investigation into if he met the residency requirements to even run for the district. The Brooklyn Democratic Party claimed that Chang had been secretly living in Manhattan and was ineligible to have been elected. The investigation organized by Speaker Carl Heastie Carl Edward Heastie (; born S ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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New York City Council
The New York City Council is the lawmaking body of New York City. It has 51 members from 51 council districts throughout the five Borough (New York City), boroughs. The council serves as a check against the Mayor of New York City, mayor in a mayor-council government model, the performance of city agencies land use decisions, and legislating on a variety of other issues. It also has sole responsibility for approving the city budget. Members elected in or after 2010 are limited to two consecutive four-year terms in office but may run again after a four-year respite; however, members elected before 2010 may seek third successive terms. The head of the city council is called the speaker (politics), speaker. The current speaker is Adrienne Adams (politician), Adrienne Adams, a Democrat from the 28th district in Queens. The speaker sets the agenda and presides at city council meetings, and all proposed legislation is submitted through the Speaker's Office. Majority Leader Keith Powers ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, and former lawyer who served as the 67th United States Secretary of State for President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a United States senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and as First Lady of the United States as the wife of President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee for president in the 2016 presidential election, becoming the first woman to win a presidential nomination by a major U.S. political party; Clinton won the popular vote, but lost the Electoral College vote, thereby losing the election to Donald Trump. Raised in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Rodham graduated from Wellesley College in 1969 and earned a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 1973. After serving as a congressional legal counsel, she moved to Arkansas and married future president Bill Clinton in 1975; the tw ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2016 United States Presidential Election In New York
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Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Elizabeth Gillibrand (; ; born December 9, 1966) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior United States senator from New York since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2009. Born and raised in upstate New York, Gillibrand graduated from Dartmouth College and from the UCLA School of Law. After holding positions in government and private practice and working on Hillary Clinton's 2000 U.S. Senate campaign, Gillibrand was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2006. She represented New York's 20th congressional district and was reelected in 2008. During her House tenure, Gillibrand was a Blue Dog Democrat noted for voting against the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. After Clinton was appointed U.S. Secretary of State in 2009, Governor David Paterson selected Gillibrand to fill the Senate seat Clinton had vacated, making her New York's second female ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2018 United States Senate Election In New York
The 2018 United States Senate election in New York took place on November 6, 2018. Incumbent U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand was re-elected to a second full term, defeating Republican Chele Chiavacci Farley. As of 2021, this, along with the concurrent comptroller election is the last time Ontario, Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, Warren, Washington, Otsego, Saint Lawrence and Sullivan counties have voted Democratic in a statewide election. Democratic primary Kirsten Gillibrand ran unopposed in the primary and automatically became the Democratic nominee. Candidates Nominee * Kirsten Gillibrand, incumbent U.S. Senator Failed to file * Scott Noren, oral and maxillofacial surgeon Declined *Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former Senator Hillary Clinton * Andrew Cuomo, incumbent New York Governor *Caroline Kennedy, former United States Ambassador to Japan, daughter of former President John F. Kennedy and member of the Kennedy family * Andrew Yang, entrepreneur ''(ran for Democratic pres ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2020 United States Presidential Election In New York
The 2020 United States presidential election in New York was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. New York voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party's nominee, incumbent President Donald Trump, and running mate Vice President Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his running mate California Senator Kamala Harris. New York has 29 electoral votes in the Electoral College. Trump announced that Florida would be his home state for this election, rather than New York as it had been previously. This was the first presidential election in New York to allow no-excuse absentee voting. New York continued its streak as a solidly blue state. Biden's victory came from overwhelming strength with Black and Latino voters in New York City as well as strong su ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Joe Pinion
Joseph Pinion III (born August 11, 1983) is an American former television host and political candidate. He was the nominee of the Republican and Conservative parties in the 2022 United States Senate election in New York, making him the first African American to receive a major party's backing for the U.S. Senate in the State of New York. Early life and education Pinion was born in Bronxville. He attended Colgate University on an athletic grant, playing football. Career Pinion was a youth development director at a Bronx health center for some time. He later became a political commentator and appeared on news networks such as CNN. He eventually became the host of "Saturday Agenda" on the channel Newsmax. He is also involved in climate change advocacy, working with the organization RepublicEn, a right-leaning environmentalist advocacy organization. Politics Prior to running for office, Pinion served as Chair of the Conservative Color Coalition and was the Outreach Director ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2022 United States Senate Election In New York
The 2022 United States Senate election in New York was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of New York. Incumbent four-term Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, who has served as Senate Majority Leader since 2021 and has held New York's Class 3 Senate seat since defeating Republican incumbent Al D'Amato in 1998, ran for a fifth term. Republican challenger Joe Pinion is the first black Senate nominee of any major party in New York history. The filing deadline for the June primary was April 7, 2022. Schumer will become the longest-serving U.S. senator in the state's history once his fifth term begins in the 118th Congress. Though Schumer was comfortably re-elected, he lost significant support on Long Island and Upstate New York compared to his last election in 2016. Pinion flipped the more conservative counties that Schumer had won in his previous runs, as well as some Democratic leaning counties such as Nassau, Saratoga ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2016 New York State Assembly Election ...
The 2016 New York State Assembly elections were held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, with the primary election on September 13, 2016. Voters in the 150 districts of the New York State Assembly elected their representatives. The elections coincided with the elections for other offices, including for U.S. President and the state senate. Overview Results District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 District 5 District 6 District 7 District 8 District 9 District 10 Notes References {{2016 United States elections Assembly New York State Assembly elections New York Assembly The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature, with the New York State Senate being the upper house. There are 150 seats in the Assembly. Assembly members serve two-year terms without term limits in the United ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2018 New York State Assembly Election
Elections to the New York State Assembly were held on November 6, 2018 along with elections for the State Senate, Governor, and U.S. Senator, among others. The Democrats retained their majority with no net change in seats from 2016. Eight seats changed hands, four from Republican to Democrat and four from Democrat to Republican. Overview Results Detailed results Notes References {{New York elections 2018 New York (state) elections New York State Assembly The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature, with the New York State Senate being the upper house. There are 150 seats in the Assembly. Assembly members serve two-year terms without term limits. The Assem ... New York State Assembly elections ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |