The Conservative Party of New York State is an American political party founded in 1962 following conservative dissatisfaction with the Republican Party in New York. Running on the Conservative Party line,James L. Buckley won election to the U.S. Senate in 1970 and served for one term. Since 2010,the party has held "Row C" on New York ballots—the third-place ballot position,directly below the Democratic and Republican parties—because it received the third-highest number of votes of any political party in the 2010,2014 and 2018 New York gubernatorial elections. The party is known for its strategy of attempting to influence the Republican Party in a more conservative direction.
The New York State Senate is the upper house of the New York State Legislature;the New York State Assembly is its lower house. Its members are elected to two-year terms;there are no term limits. There are 63 seats in the Senate.
Byron William Brown II is an American politician who is the current mayor of Buffalo,New York. He has served as Buffalo's 62nd mayor since January 2006,the City's first African-American mayor and longest serving mayor. He previously served Western New York as a member of the New York State Senate and Buffalo Common Council. He is the first African-American politician elected to the New York State Senate to represent a district outside New York City and the first member of any minority race to represent a majority white New York State Senate district.
Marc A. Coppola is a resident of the Town of Tonawanda,New York and a former member of the New York State Senate,where he represented the New York State Senate's 60th district,which included parts of the Cities of Buffalo and Tonawanda,the City of Niagara Falls and the Town of Grand Island.
Alfred "Al" Coppola is a former state senator and politician in New York. A resident of Buffalo,New York,Coppola is a long time political figure in the city,who served briefly as the 57th District member in the New York Senate at the turn of the 21st century.
Richard Adams Cordray is an American lawyer and politician serving as the COO of Federal Student Aid in the United States Department of Education. He served as the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from 2012 to 2017. Before that,Cordray variously served as Ohio's attorney general,solicitor general,and treasurer. He was the Democratic nominee for governor of Ohio in 2018.
Christopher Louis Jacobs is an American politician representing New York's 27th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. Jacobs served as the 62nd secretary of state of New York from April 2006 to January 2007. Beginning in 2012,he held the post of Erie County clerk,and he was a Republican member of the New York State Senate for the 60th district from 2017 to 2020. On June 23,2020,he won a special election to fill a congressional vacancy in the 27th district. He was reelected to a full term in November 2020.
Jennifer Lee Brunner is an American attorney,politician and judge. She is currently an associate justice of the Ohio Supreme Court,a position to which she was elected after serving as a judge on Ohio's Tenth District Court of Appeals. On June 8,2021,Brunner announced her candidacy for Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court in the November 8,2022,general election. Brunner is a member of the Democratic Party who served as the Ohio Secretary of State;Brunner was the first woman to serve in this capacity. She took office after sixteen years of Republican control,which included two four-year terms by her predecessor J. Kenneth Blackwell,who oversaw the 2000 and 2004 United States elections. Brunner served only a single term as Secretary of State. When it came time for re-election in 2010,she instead made an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate. Prior to being elected Secretary of State,Brunner worked in the Ohio Secretary of State's Office and served as a County Judge in Franklin County,Ohio. She also owned her own private practice;during her private practice career,she focused on election law and campaign finance law. She represented a broad range of candidates,businesses,political parties and committees before the Ohio Elections Commission on quasi-criminal matters.
Sandra Lee Jackson is an American politician. She was elected to the Chicago City Council as an alderman of the 7th ward of the City of Chicago in the 2007 municipal elections held on February 27,2007. She succeeded Darcel A. Beavers who had been appointed by Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley after the 2006 November elections to succeed her father William Beavers,Jackson's rival,as alderman of the 7th Ward. Jackson resigned from Chicago City Council,effective January 15,2013. On February 20,2013,Jackson pleaded guilty to one count of filing false tax returns,and on August 14,2013 was sentenced to one year in prison.
The 2010 New York state elections took place on November 2,2010. Due to the special election for US Senate,all of New York's six statewide offices were up for popular election on the same date. At the same time,all 29 members from New York of the U.S. House of Representatives,all 212 members of the New York State legislature,and many other local officials were elected.
Mark John Grisanti is an American lawyer,politician,and judge from New York. After being elected to the New York State Senate in District 60 as a Republican in 2010,Grisanti took office as a State Senator on January 3,2011. Grisanti served in the State Senate from 2011 to 2014,when he was defeated in the Republican primary and in the general election. Grisanti was appointed to the New York State Court of Claims in May 2015 and later became an Acting Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York,Eighth Judicial District.
The 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in New York were held on Tuesday,November 6,2012 to elect the twenty-seven U.S. representatives from the state,one from each of the state's twenty seven congressional districts,a loss of two seats following the 2010 United States Census. The elections coincided with the elections of other federal and state offices,including a quadrennial presidential election,and a U.S. Senate election. The two existing districts that were eliminated were District 9,held by Republican Rep. Bob Turner,and District 22,held by retiring Democratic Rep. Maurice Hinchey.
The Marriage Equality Act is a 2011 New York State law that made same-sex marriage legal. The bill was introduced in the New York State Assembly by Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnell and in the New York State Senate by Senator Thomas Duane. It was signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on June 24,2011 and took effect on July 24,2011.
Timothy M. Kennedy is an American politician from New York. He is currently a Democratic member of the New York State Senate,representing the 63rd District since January 2013. He previously represented the 58th District from 2011 to 2013.
The 2012 New York state elections took place on November 6,2012. These elections included the 2012 presidential election,an election to one U.S. Senate seat,and elections to all 27 New York congressional seats,all 63 seats in the New York State Senate,and all 150 seats in the New York State Assembly.
The 2005 Buffalo Mayoral Election took place on November 8,2005. After incumbent Anthony M. Masiello,a Democrat,announced on April 29,2005 that he would not seek a fourth term as mayor,a field of several Democratic candidates emerged,from which New York State Senator Byron Brown emerged victorious in the primary election. In the general election,Brown went on to defeat Republican challenger Kevin Helfer,former member of the Buffalo Common Council for the University District,as well as two minor-party candidates. Buffalo's 2005 mayoral election is notable as the first in the city to be won by an African-American candidate.
The 2001 Buffalo Mayoral election took place on November 6,2001. Incumbent Anthony M. Masiello,a Democrat,easily trounced his sole opponent in the primary,going on to win a third term with no serious opposition in the general election. Buffalo's 2001 mayoral election was notable for its uncharacteristic quietness,despite pressing issues such as allegations of environmental contamination in the Hickory Woods neighborhood of South Buffalo and chronic poverty and urban blight. This was speculated as being due to reticence on the part of would-be candidates to "challenge a powerful and well-liked mayor like Masiello",especially one with a campaign fund in excess of $1 million. It was also only the second time in history when the Democrats and Republicans endorsed the same candidate for mayor of Buffalo,a phenomenon made possible by New York State's electoral fusion law.
The 2010 New York State Senate elections were held on November 2,2010 to elect representatives from all 62 State Senate districts in the U.S. state of New York. Primary elections were held on September 14,2010. Republicans retook the Senate majority,winning 32 seats to the Democrats' 30 on Election Day.
Marc C. Panepinto is an American attorney and Democratic politician from New York State.
The 2021 Buffalo mayoral election was held on November 2,2021. Democratic Mayor Byron Brown won his fifth-term in office as a write-in candidate. Brown's victory marked the first time since 1985 that Buffalo did not elect the Democratic nominee for mayor.
