Dorothy Louise Slaughter was an American politician elected to 16 terms as a United States Representative from New York,serving from 1987 until her death in 2018. She served as the Dean of the New York Congressional Delegation for the last few terms as Congresswoman before her death.
The 2006 New York gubernatorial election took place on November 7,2006,to elect the governor and lieutenant governor of New York,concurrently with elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections,then incumbent Republican governor George Pataki chose not to run for re-election in a fourth term. Democrat Eliot Spitzer,the New York Attorney General,won the election over former Republican state Assembly minority leader John Faso. As of 2024,this is the last time the Governor’s office in New York changed partisan control. This was the first open-seat election since 1982. Primary elections were held on September 12. This is the last gubernatorial election where any of the following counties voted Democratic:Genesee,Chautauqua,Cattaraugus,Niagara,Fulton,Steuben,Tioga &Schoharie.
William Anson Barclay is an American politician and attorney from the State of New York. A Republican,he has served in the New York State Assembly since 2003. In January 2020,Barclay was elected to the position of Assembly Minority Leader.
The results of elections in the state of New York have tended to be more Democratic-leaning than in most of the United States,with in recent decades a solid majority of Democratic voters,concentrated in New York City and some of its suburbs,including Westchester County,Rockland County and Long Island's Nassau county,and in the cities of Buffalo,Rochester,Syracuse,Albany,and Ithaca.
Brian M. Kolb is an American politician who served as a member of the New York State Assembly for the 131st district from 2000 to 2021. Kolb also served as minority leader from 2009 to 2020.
Joseph D. Morelle is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 25th congressional district since 2018. A Democrat,he was formerly a member of the New York State Assembly representing the 136th Assembly district,which includes eastern portions of the City of Rochester and the Monroe County suburbs of Irondequoit and Brighton. Speaker Sheldon Silver appointed him as majority leader of the New York State Assembly in January 2013 and Morelle served as acting speaker in the Speaker's absence. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives for New York's 25th congressional district in November 2018 following the death of longtime Representative Louise Slaughter.
Susan V. John was an American politician who served in the New York State Assembly from Monroe County,New York. A Democrat,she represented the 131st district from January 1,1991,to December 31,2010. She was succeeded by Harry Bronson,a fellow Democrat.
David F. Gantt Jr. was an American politician who served as a member of the New York Assembly from 1983 to 2020 as a member of the Democratic Party. Prior to his Assembly tenure,he was a member of the Monroe County,New York Legislature. He was the first and,until the election of Demond Meeks in 2020,only black person to represent Monroe County in the New York Assembly.
James S. "Jim" Alesi is a retired politician who served as New York State Senator for the 55th district,representing parts of Monroe County from 1997 to 2012. A Republican,Alesi previously served in the Monroe County Legislature and in the New York State Assembly. Following his 2012 retirement from the Senate,Alesi has served on the state's Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board and on the Public Service Commission.
Merton Elmer Lewis was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 51st Attorney General of New York state.
Jane Lewis Corwin is an American politician and businesswoman who currently serves a Commissioner of the International Joint Commission for United States and Canada. She previously served as a Republican Party member of the New York State Assembly from 2009 to 2016. She represented the 144th Assembly District which covers parts of Erie and Niagara counties. Corwin was also the Republican Party nominee in the special election held on May 24,2011,to fill Western New York's 26th district seat in the U.S. House of Representatives previously held by Republican Chris Lee. She faced three other candidates in the election,losing to Democrat Kathy Hochul 47 percent to 42 percent.
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 C. Johns is an American politician who represents District 8 in the Monroe County Legislature. He formerly represented District 135 in the New York State Assembly,which includes the towns and villages of East Rochester,Penfield and Webster,and Fairport,in the eastern suburbs of Rochester. He is a member of the Republican Party.
William R. Nojay was an American politician and member of the New York State Assembly. He represented the 133rd Assembly District,which includes parts of Steuben and Monroe counties and all of Livingston County.
The Rochester Mayoral Election of 2017 was an election to determine who will hold the office of Mayor of Rochester,New York in the upcoming term. The election took place on November 7,2017. Incumbent mayor Lovely Warren was elected to a second term in office.
A special election for New York's 25th congressional district was held following the death of U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter. Democrat Joseph Morelle defeated Republican Jim Maxwell on November 6,2018.
Bride Rose Sweeney is a three-term Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives for Western Cuyahoga County,serving as Ranking Member of the Ohio House Finance Committee and the lead Democratic sponsor of the bipartisan Fair School Funding Plan that became law on July 1,2021. Sweeney is also the only woman on the Ohio Controlling Board,which oversees the release of taxpayer dollars.
Demond Meeks is an American union organizer and politician who currently serves in the New York State Assembly from the 137th district as a member of the Democratic Party. Meeks is the second African American to represent Monroe County in the Assembly;David Gantt,his predecessor,was the first.
The 2021 Rochester mayoral election was held on November 2,2021. Incumbent Democratic mayor Lovely Warren ran for reelection to a third term in office but was defeated in the Democratic primary by city councilman Malik Evans.
The Black &Asian Democratic Caucus was a group of County Legislators in Monroe County,New York that broke away from the Democratic Caucus of the County Legislature in 2020. The claimed rationale behind the split was that the majority of Monroe County Democrats had taken their constituents in the city of Rochester for granted and it was time for them to exercise power on their own. In the time following the formation of the Black &Asian Democratic Caucus,they submitted legislation that otherwise would not have been considered. It was not an officially recognized party by the New York State Board of Elections but rather a Caucus established through a process outlined in the Rules of the Legislature of the County of Monroe. The stated mission of the Caucus was to advocate for the interests of Black,Indigenous,and People of Color (BIPOC) within Monroe County and strive to eliminate the obstacles that structural racism has exacerbated by championing equity and equality to eliminate disparities between racial and ethnic groups. Their motto was "Purpose over Party."
