The Green Papers: New York 2005 Off Year Elections
 
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Elections for Statewide offices and Congress
Electoral Votes:31(5.76% of 538)
Governor:1 
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 1 and 3)
2002-2010 Representatives:29(6.67% of 435)
2000 Census:19,004,973 (6.74% of 281,998,273)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):13,805,000
Registered Voters (November 2000):11,262,816
Capital:Albany
 

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New York State and Local Government

27 July 2005

Gov. Pataki Not Running For Re-Election,
Likely to Run for President in '08

Governor George E. Pataki (R-New York) will not be seeking another term in 2006, it was announced today. It is expected that the three-term Chief Executive of the Empire State will "test the waters" re: a possible run for the Republican Presidential Nomination in 2008.

 
           
U.S. Senate  6 year term. No Term Limit. 109th Senate  Senate Electoral Classes
Class 1   Democratic   Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
• First elected: 2000
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
  Candidate Republican     (pending)
• Possible candidates: attorney Edward Cox (son-in-law of the late President Nixon)
Class 3   Democratic   Senator Chuck E. Schumer
• First elected: 1998; re-elected: 2004.
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010
Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006. Term Limit: None, All Governors
    Republican   Governor George E. Pataki
• First elected: 1994; re-elected: 1998, 2002
• Chair up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
• Open Chair - on 27 July 2005, Gov. Pataki announced he will not be seeking re-election to a fourth term in 2006.
  Candidate Democratic     (pending)
• Possible candidates: Attorney General Eliot Spitzer
  Candidate Republican     (pending)
• Possible candidate: William F. Weld (former Governor of Massachusetts)
Lieutenant Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006. Elected on a ticket with the Governor
    Republican   Lieutenant Governor Mary O. Donohue
• First elected: 1998; re-elected: 2002
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
109th U.S. House of Representatives  2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 109th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition):
20 Democratic (20 Undetermined);
9 Republican (9 Undetermined)
CD 1   Democratic   Congressman Timothy H. "Tim" Bishop
• First elected: 2002
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 2   Democratic   Congressman Steve J. Israel
• First elected: 2000
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 3   Republican   Congressman Peter T. King
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 4   Democratic   Congressman Carolyn McCarthy
• First elected: 1996
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 5   Democratic   Congressman Gary L. Ackerman
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 6   Democratic   Congressman Gregory W. Meeks
• First elected: 3 February 1998 in Special Election re: resignation of Congressman Floyd Flake, 17 November 1997
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 7   Democratic   Congressman Joseph Crowley
• First elected: 1998
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 8   Democratic   Congressman Jerrold L. Nadler
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 9   Democratic   Congressman Anthony D. Weiner
• First elected: 1998
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 10   Democratic   Congressman Edolphus "Ed" Towns
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 11   Democratic   Congressman Major R. Owens
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 12   Democratic   Congressman Nydia M. Velazquez
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 13   Republican   Congressman Vito J. Fossella
• First elected: in Special Election, 4 November 1997 re: resignation of Congresswoman Susan Molinari, 2 August 1997
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 14   Democratic   Congressman Carolyn B. Maloney
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 15   Democratic   Congressman Charles B. Rangel
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 16   Democratic   Congressman Jose E. Serrano
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 17   Democratic   Congressman Eliot L. Engel
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 18   Democratic   Congressman Nita M. Lowey
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 19   Republican   Congressman Sue W. Kelly
• First elected: 1994
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 20   Republican   Congressman John E. Sweeney
• First elected: 1998
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 21   Democratic   Congressman Michael R. McNulty
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 22   Democratic   Congressman Maurice D. Hinchey
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 23   Republican   Congressman John M. McHugh
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 24   Republican   Congressman Sherwood L. "Sherry" Boehlert
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 25   Republican   Congressman James T. Walsh
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 26   Republican   Congressman Thomas M. Reynolds
• First elected: 1998
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 27   Democratic   Congressman Brian M. Higgins
• First elected: 2004
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 28   Democratic   Congressman Louise McIntosh Slaughter
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 29   Republican   Congressman John "Randy" Kuhl
• First elected: 2004
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
Attorney General  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006
    Democratic   Attorney General Eliot Spitzer
• First elected: 1998; re-elected: 2002
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
• 7 December 2004: Announced his candidacy for Governor in 2006
Comptroller  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006
    Democratic   Comptroller Alan Hevesi
• First elected: 2002
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
Political Parties    Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such.
 • America First
 • Conservative
 • Constitution
 • Democratic
 • Green
 • Independence
 • Integrity
 • Libertarian
 • Not readily classifiable
 • Republican
 • Socialist Party USA
 • Working Families
 

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