WASHINGTON – Erie County would be split among three congressional districts – not two, as it has been for two decades – under a reapportionment plan proposed Sunday by the State Legislature's Democratic majority.
Erie County would be split among three congressional districts under remap
The latest efforts to redraw New York's congressional maps would essentially preserve a Buffalo-centric district in the territory now represented by Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo, left. Rep. Chris Jacobs, R-Orchard Park, right, could run in either a new Southern Tier district or another new district stretching from Lewiston all the way eastward to Watertown.
Two sources close to Jacobs said early Monday that Jacobs plans to run for re-election from the newly proposed 24th District, which would mean…
Rep. Claudia Tenney, a Utica-area Republican whose district was divided up in a redistricting plan released by Democrats on Sunday, said Monda…
Watertown might be about to get a new congressman from Orchard Park, and Hamburg might be about to get a new congresswoman from the Utica area.
"The fact that New York could end up with such an egregious congressional map represents a failure for the state’s new redistricting process,"…
While the maps don't violate the federal Voting Rights Act, "the rest of the lines are so heavily gerrymandered they will be non-competitive,"…
New York Republicans are howling over new State Legislature lines released late Tuesday following a Democrat-controlled reapportionment proces…
Fourteen Republicans from around the state who have served as presidential electors submitted the suit, marking the start of a legal challenge…
Though the New York GOP is reduced to almost afterthought status in Democrat-controlled Albany, the party harbors at least a glimmer of reappo…
“Claudia Tenney is a fantastic Representative for the Southern Tier, and a great Member of Congress," Trump said in a statement.
The woman who would be the Southtowns' congresswoman lives near Utica, but she wants you to know that will soon change, and that she knows Buf…
Joe Sempolinski of Canisteo is running for the 23rd District seat being vacated by Rep. Tom Reed, a Corning Republican.
The commission's divisions foreshadow the fact that the Democratic State Legislature is likely to take over the process.
Higgins, a Buffalo Democrat, collected more than twice as much money as he raised in the same period two years earlier.
"Facing historic headwinds, an uncertain redistricting process and defending a toxic socialist agenda, no Democrat is safe,” said NRCC spokesm…
With Democrats tasked with shrinking the state's number of House seats from 27 to 26 under new census numbers released Monday, Democrats in Al…
If New York had counted just 89 more people in the census, Minnesota would have lost a seat and New York would have continued to have 27 membe…
