WATERLOO — Normally, candidates for town and county elections in Seneca County are selected by either petition or caucus.
GENEVA — For what is believed to be the first time ever, school budget votes and board elections will be conducted exclusively by absentee ballot in 2020.
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PENN YAN — It’s official: Republican Tom Reed and Democrat Tracy Mitrano will face off again in the race for the 23rd Congressional District seat this November.
LYONS — Wayne County Board of Elections officials are joining the calls asking for the state Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to delay the April 18 presidential primary and special elections amid the coronavirus outbreak.
SYRACUSE — The field seeking the Democratic nomination in the 24th Congressional District and the chance to challenge Republican incumbent John Katko just got smaller.
GENEVA — The public will get the chance to meet the four Republican candidates for the 131st Assembly District at an event later this month.
HOPEWELL — The Ontario County Board of Elections has set dates and times for early voting in the Democratic presidential primary and 27th Congressional District special election.
ITHACA — There’s no big campaign staff for Dr. Scott Noren, an Ithaca oral surgeon who hopes to challenge Tracy Mitrano in the June 23 Democratic primary for the 23rd Congressional District.
MANCHESTER — Manchester Town Supervisor Jeff Gallahan has won the endorsement of the Ontario County Conservative Party in his bid for the 131st state Assembly seat.
BUFFALO — The Democrat and Republican vying for the vacant 27th Congressional District seat will have debates after all.
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TYRE — Another candidate has joined the race for the 131st state Assembly District seat held by Brian Kolb.
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TYRE — Another candidate has joined the race for the 131st state Assembly District seat held by Brian Kolb.
CANANDAIGUA — A fourth candidate is entering the race for the 131st state Assembly District seat.
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CANANDAIGUA — A fourth candidate is entering the race for the 131st state Assembly District seat.
PALMYRA — State assembly candidate Scott Comegys has the backing of the Democratic committees in the three counties in the 130th District.
HAMBURG — If Republican Chris Jacobs doesn’t have any interest in debating Democrat Nate McMurray in the race for the 27th Congressional District seat formerly held by Chris Collins, Duane Whitmer is more than willing to step in.
PENN YAN — Democrat Tracy Mitrano said she “ran out of time” in closing the gap with Republican Congressman Tom Reed in the race for the 23rd Congressional District seat in 2018.
Democrats are looking for potential candidates to take on Republican Phil Palmesano in the 132nd Assembly District race.
SYRACUSE — Francis Conole said it was no fluke he was able to secure the endorsement from Onondaga County Democrats in the quest for the party’s nomination and the chance to take on Republican Congressman John Katko in the race for the 24th District seat this November.
MANCHESTER — Republican state Assembly candidate Jeff Gallahan has picked up the endorsement of the New York State Independence Party.
WATERLOO — Jeff Shipley of Waterloo became the second person to throw their hat in the ring for the Republican Party nomination for the 131st State Assembly District seat being vacated at the end of the year by long-time incumbent Brian Kolb of Victor.
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WATERLOO — Seneca County Chamber of Commerce President Jeff Shipley has announced his candidacy for the 131st District seat in the state Assembly.
SYRACUSE — Democrat Dana Balter’s plans to get a second crack at Republican John Katko in November took a hit Saturday when the Onondaga County Democratic Committee endorsed Francis Conole, a Naval Academy graduate and Iraq War veteran.
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MANCHESTER — It didn’t take long for Republican leaders to line up behind a candidate for the 131st District seat in the state Assembly.
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MANCHESTER — Manchester Town Supervisor Jeff Gallahan, a Republican, announced Friday that he is running for the 131st Assembly District seat currently held by Brian Kolb, who announced Thursday that he would not be seeking another term following his driving while intoxicated arrest on New Y…
LODI — All three seats on the Village Board are up for election this year.
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VICTOR — Assemblyman Brian Kolb’s political future turned cloudy on New Year’s Eve, when the 67-year-old Republican was charged with driving while intoxicated near his new Victor home.
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VICTOR — Longtime Assemblyman and former Minority Leader Brian Kolb, R-131 of Victor, announced Thursday afternoon that he will not seek reelection.
Two Democrats running for state and congressional seats, respectively, announced they have won endorsements from county committees.
CANANDAIGUA — Ontario County’s conservatives aren’t making an endorsement in April’s special election to fill the remainder of the term of former Congressman Chris Collins, who resigned from his seat representing the 27th District following an insider trading scandal.
MILO — Tracy Mitrano continues to pick up endorsements from Democratic committees in the 11-county 23rd Congressional District ahead of the June 23 primary, in which an Ithaca oral surgeon, Scott Noren, is hoping to challenge her.
BUFFALO — Nate McMurray cleared a significant hurdle in the race for the 27th Congressional District seat that has been vacant since the resignation of Republican Chris Collins.
SYRACUSE — Candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for the 24th Congressional District seat are criticizing Republican John Katko’s decision to endorse President Donald Trump’s re-election bid.
The region’s Republican leaders have endorsed a candidate in the special election to fill the 27th Congressional District seat vacated by Chris Collins, but Ontario County’s Conservative Party is urging its state committee to sit this one out.
GORHAM — Anyone interested in running for the Marcus Whitman school board can now get nominating petitions.
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PENN YAN — Democrat Leslie Danks Burke, who is vying to represent New York’s 58th state Senate district, is kicking off her “Whistlestop Tour” on Tuesday, Jan. 28 with stops in seven cities and villages, including one in Yates County.
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CANANDAIGUA — State Assemblyman Brian Kolb hasn’t had many challengers to his job representing the 131st Assembly District. If the Republican decides to run again in 2020, he will have at least one opponent.
NEWARK — Democrat Scott Comegys has made it official: He is running for the state Assembly’s 130th District seat again.
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CORNING — Republican Congressman Tom Reed has never been shy when it comes to what he thinks of the job Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo is doing in Albany these days.
WATKINS GLEN — Democrat Leslie Danks Burke gave Republican Tom O’Mara his toughest challenge in the 2016 race for the 58th State Senate District.
WATERLOO — Varick Supervisor Bob Hayssen and Waterloo Supervisor Don Trout are vying to become chairman of the Seneca County Board of Supervisors in 2020.
WATERLOO –– The Seneca County Board of Elections website was unable to provide election results on the night of Nov. 5.
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GENEVA — Democrat Laura Salamendra not only maintained her Election Day lead in the race for Ward 5 City Councilor at Tuesday’s absentee and affidavit ballot count, she increased it.
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GENEVA — Laura Salamendra will represent Ward 5 when the new City Council is seated Jan. 1, 2020.
WATERLOO — Mark Sinkiewicz will be the first Democrat to be elected Seneca County District Attorney in recent memory.
WATERLOO — It took Jim Cleere three tries to win a county supervisor seat. It took Michael Enslow two tries.
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WATERLOO — Barring an unforeseen change, the chairman of the Seneca County Board of Supervisors will be leaving his post at the end of the year.
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WATERLOO — The town’s two at-large county supervisors will be known Monday, as will the winner of the race for Seneca County’s district attorney.
WATERLOO — Three at-large county supervisor candidates in Waterloo will have to wait until Nov. 18 to find out if they’ve won or lost.
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GENEVA — The Election Day results in the race for two seats on City Council are unlikely to change.
