A key win, Democrats say, could come in the Third Legislative District in Brookhaven, where Carol Bissonette, a Democrat from Mastic Beach, is running against the Republican, Peter O'Leary, a retired Suffolk County police detective and former detective union president from Moriches.
"We're the third legislative body in the country to move a marriage bill without being ordered by the courts," he said, pointing out that it passed easily in the Assembly in 2007.
Sara Love had been ahead of Samir Paul by eight votes for the third legislative seat in that district; after the recount, Love's margin widened to 12 votes.
Ballot-counting began on Sunday night in Ivory Coast, in the first legislative election in more than a decade.
Lou Gallagher, candidate for state senate in the Seventh Legislative District, has been called to active duty, adding a new twist to the contentious race in South Jersey.
Independents close to the royal family won a majority of parliamentary seats in the first legislative polls since 1997, final results announced early today showed.
When the Senate returns on Tuesday, it will still technically be in the first legislative day of the session, which means only a simple majority is necessary to change the rules for the rest of the session.
Mr. Lewis, 49, a Democrat who is a political novice, grew up in Willingboro, in the Eighth Legislative District, where he is running, but he lived in California for much of his adult life.
A3 Hong Kong Voters Stay Home Hong Kong residents turned out in far smaller numbers than expected to vote in the second legislative election since the former British colony reverted to Chinese rule in 1997.
So far, Mr. Gallagher's skirmishes have been on the political front, where he has mounted an energetic effort to unseat the incumbent Republican, State Senator Diane Allen, in the Seventh Legislative District.
Sweeping new regulations on private hire vehicles are expected in the first legislative agenda of the Conservative government on Wednesday to try to control the huge growth in use of the cab-hailing app, which London black taxi drivers claim is pushing them out of business.
