Incumbent Anthony D’Esposito (R) and Laura Gillen (D) are running in the general election for New York’s 4th Congressional District on November 5, 2024. This race is a rematch of 2022, when D’Esposito defeated Gillen 51.8%-48.2%. D’Esposito is one of 14 Republicans to win in a district that President Joe Biden (D) won in 2020.…
Incumbent Rep. Michael Lawler (R/Conservative Party), Mondaire Jones (D), and Anthony Frascone (Working Families Party) are running in New York’s 17th Congressional District election on November 5, 2024. Lawler and Jones lead in campaign finance, polls, endorsements and media attention. City & State New York’s Rebecca C. Lewis said this election “may offer Democrats one…
Incumbent Brandon Williams (R), John Mannion (D), and Christopher Gowett (independent) are running in the general election for New York’s 22nd Congressional District on Nov. 5. The election for New York’s 22nd Congressional District is forecasted as one of the most competitive in the country. According to Politico, “The Cook Political Report has identified the…
Voters in six states—Colorado, Florida, Maryland, New York, Nevada, and South Dakota—will decide on abortion-related ballot measures in Nov. 2024. Initiatives are pending signature verification in five states—Arizona, Arkansas, Missouri, Montana, and Nebraska. This report provides the most recent updates on abortion-related ballot measure certifications and potential measures. Here is the status of abortion-related ballot…
George Latimer (D) defeated incumbent Jamaal Bowman (D) in the Democratic primary in New York’s 16th Congressional District on Jun. 25, 2024. As of Jun. 26, Latimer received 54.5% of the vote to Bowman’s 45.5%. Bowman was the first Democratic U.S. House incumbent to lose a primary in the 2024 election cycle. According to AdImpact,…
Seventeen of New York’s 213 state legislative seats up for election in 2024 are open, meaning no incumbent filed. This is the fewest for the state since Ballotpedia began tracking these figures in 2010, and newcomers are guaranteed at least eight percent of the legislature next year. New York has 35 contested state legislative primaries…
This year’s filing deadline for candidates running for Congress in New York was April 4, 2024. Fifty-nine candidates are running for New York’s 26 U.S. House districts, including 32 Democrats and 27 Republicans. That’s an average of 2.27 candidates per district. There were 4.12 candidates per district in 2022, 4.00 candidates per district in 2020, and…
A previously certified abortion-related amendment was removed from the New York 2024 ballot following a ruling by a state Supreme Court justice on May 7, 2024. The measure was designed to amend the Equal Protection Clause of the New York Constitution to prohibit a person’s rights from being denied based on the person’s “ethnicity, national…
Voters in 12 states could see abortion on their ballots this year, including three states where ballot measures have been certified for the ballot—Florida, Maryland, and New York. Measures have been proposed in nine other states. This report provides the most recent updates on abortion-related ballot measure certifications and potential measures. On April 18, the…
In Nov., voters in three states—Florida, Maryland, and New York—will decide on ballot measures related to abortion. Florida is the most recent state to join that list. While signatures were verified on Jan. 5, 2024, the state Supreme Court needed to review the initiative. On April 1, the court ruled that the initiative met the…