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How are Senate districts drawn? (I mean, what criteria "should" be used to draw districts, and not in the "Joe Bruno, Sheldon Silver, and George Pataki go into a room..." sense.) -HiFiGuy 17:46, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
I wonder whether "casting vote" is a term familiar to most Americans, a relevant question here since the article is about a U.S. jurisdiction. My instinct -- correct me if I am wrong -- is that most Americans have not heard the term "casting vote" and would instead use the term "tiebreaking vote." 24.29.134.41 01:22, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
"However, it also provides that if any county would by virtue of its population be entitled to more than three Senators, then the first three Senators would count towards the limit of fifty, while the remainder would be in addition to the fifty." Comment: Maybe I'm really dense, but I don't understand this wording at all, it seems very confusing. If there is a "limit" of fifty, why are there 62 senators?
Only three senators in a county count toward the fifty-senator limit. As I remember it, Kings County (Brooklyn) and a few other counties have more than three senators; however, only three of the senators from Brooklyn are counted towards the fifty. 208.65.57.69 (talk) 20:48, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
The state Constitution provides that the state Senate have 50 members, each elected from senatorial districts roughly equal in population. However, it also provides that if, at the time of apportionment, any county having three or more senators would by virtue of its population be entitled to more than three Senators, "such additional senator or senators shall be given to such county in addition to the fifty senators, and the whole number of senators shall be increased to that extent." Currently, there are twelve additional Senators (who are, in terms of legislative power, equal to any other Senators), making the total membership 62.
I've put a [citation needed] following this assertion in the article. It's not necessarily clear that this would be the case because Skelos is only acting as lieutenant governor by virtue of his being the Temporary President of the Senate. Would his holding of this office extend to the new Senate on January such that if he gets 30 votes for and 30 against he could cast a second vote for himself? --BOARshevik (talk) 05:34, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
My edit got reversed, apparently some sysops don't bother fact checking before they revert.
Anyway, if you wouldn't mind reverting back the State Senate has switched parties since two Democrats switched parties. [1] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.241.183.159 (talk) 21:52, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
The senate has not officially switched parties, I changed uses of the terms Majority and Minority to Democratic and Republican because of the fact that no one is officially anything.--[[User:Duffy2032|Duffy2032]f] (talk) 10:51, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
Someone has created it's own article (2009 New York State Senate Leadership Crisis), please make additions there, and keep the section on the main page concise. -- Austin512 (talk • contribs 22:57, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
I was curious: does anyone have a picture of the Senate chamber for the article? The page for the Assembly has a picture of the chamber. --Blue387 (talk) 01:10, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
Wow, the dedication of the people on this board makes you wonder why these people aren't on the Senate instead. am I right? I mean seriously. Lets all be honest here. The senate is a joke. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.72.121.74 (talk) 03:01, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
Shouldn't this article be moved back to New York State Senate? Even the Senate's official website says that is the correct name. TJ Spyke 01:44, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
It is true Jeffrey Klein, David Valesky, David Carlucci, Diane Savino do not caucus with the rest of the democrats, they are all registered with the Democrat Party. I feel they should be indicated as "Democrats" and not "Independent Democrats" since Democrat is an actual political party. There should be a section in the article explaining their separate caucus. Along with the section, an asterisk or something similar should be attached to each of member on the list of members.Racingstripes (talk) 22:27, 7 December 2011 (UTC) I brought this up two months ago and no one responded so I changed it.Racingstripes (talk) 00:42, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
I have noticed that the last column in many cases is incorrect. Nieghborhoods, cities and towns are listed instead of counties. I corrected the listing for the 60th. Perhaps an addditional column listing the towns, and cities included in the district would be useful.1archie99 1archie99 (talk) 15:09, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
Names of neighborhoods are often controversial. Names of counties are concrete and easy to keep correct for all 63 (after redistricting) Senate Districts and that's what it actually says at the top of that column anyway. I made the correction for the new 2012 election results table, which presumably will be the bases for the main Senate table once the new Senate takes office in January. I did not make the change for the current Senate because I didn't compile the data for the pre-redistricting districts. 71.249.224.254 (talk) 16:31, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
I would like to update the diagram for the senate. Could someone please confirm that the composition is correct? What is the difference between the independent democrats and the 1 democrat caucassing with the governing republicans? Does anyone have a source for this composition? Shabidoo | Talk 09:35, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
This whole controversial paragraph about the politicization of redistricting has one source, a google search for the word "new york state constitution":
"The Senate's apportionment traditionally favored Upstate due to the state constitution's original method of giving each county, even sparsely populated ones, at least one senator (a practice that mirrored the United States Senate's approach to give each state the same number of senators).[28] This changed with Baker v. Carr (1962) and Reynolds v. Sims (1964), in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a "one man, one vote" system of state legislative apportionment is constitutionally required. Since then, in redistricting, the Senate has traditionally overrepresented upstate in exchange for the Assembly overrepresenting downstate (each legislative district is allowed up to 5% deviation from the average district population; the state legislature systemically uses this leeway to create less populous Senate districts upstate and more populous ones downstate, and vice versa in the Assembly)." 184.75.115.98 (talk) 15:14, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, the district map needs to be updated to reflect the 2018 election. I opened it but didn't see where the data is drawn from and don't know how to do it. jreiss17 21:45, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
According to "The New York Times," Flanagan has stepped away from the Senate while he seeks treatment for a relapse of alcoholism; Joseph Griffo should be moved to Acting Minority Leader until a further announcement. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/04/nyregion/john-flanagan-rehab-senate-albany.html 98.10.165.90 (talk) 04:09, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
I just updated this table but I have not gotten the formatting quite right. Any help would be welcome. SunCrow (talk) 03:45, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
I just realized that the partisan composition table was missing a lot of information it used to have. I pulled an old partisan composition table and added it. There are now two tables: One for 2018 and the several preceding years, and one beginning in 2019. I am not able to get the 2019 info added into the table for 2018 and the several preceding years. Could someone please give me a hand? SunCrow (talk) 06:10, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
@SunCrow: Once the session is over, the table should be streamlined to just show the beginning and end of the legislature. We should keep it current during the session, but change to the streamlined one after the session of the legislature is over. The table is just to summarize historic partisan composition, not have a comprehensive play-by-play, that's what the history section is for (which you've done a great job of maintaining). Nevermore27 (talk) 20:02, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
Dude. I get your passion for this page and (presumably) the underlying subject. But you're putting it so much work and the page just ends up looking worse for it. Less is more. Nevermore27 (talk) 04:53, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
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