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The 2026 New York gubernatorial election will take place on November 3, 2026, to elect the governor of New York. Incumbent Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul took office on August 24, 2021, upon the resignation of Andrew Cuomo , and was elected to a full term in her own right in 2022 with 53.2% of the vote, the closest New York gubernatorial ...
Hochul, [1] though the lines passed by the Independent Redistricting Commission and the state legislature on April 28, 2023, were nearly identical to the 2022 districts. [2] Democrats have held a majority in the New York State Assembly since 1975.
A 1787 law set the start of the term at July 1. [8] The New York State Constitutional Convention of 1821 amended the state constitution, reducing the term of office to two years, [9] moving the election to November, [10] and moving the beginning and the end of the term to coincide with the calendar year. [11]
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The Constitution of New York has provided since 1777 for the election of a lieutenant governor of New York, who also acts as president of the State Senate, to the same term (keeping the same term lengths as the governor throughout all the constitutional revisions). Originally, in the event of the death, resignation or impeachment of the ...
As a chorus of top Democrats demanded New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s resignation over sexual harassment allegations last week, the woman who would succeed him if he stepped down did what she's ...
[2] [3] The family struggled financially during Hochul's early years and for a time lived in a trailer near a steel plant. [2] By the time Hochul was in college, however, her father was working for the information technology company he later headed. [2] Her family is Irish Catholic. [4]