NY-22: It’s Finally Over

The last undecided House race has certified a winner, over 3 months after November 3, Republicans flipped a 15th seat

After over 3 months of legal haggling over the counting of ballots in the 22nd Congressional District of central New York state, a winner has finally been declared.

Winning by 109 votes, former Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (R) was elected over former Congressman Anthony Brindisi (D). Tenney lost the NY-22 seat to Brindisi in 2018 after being first elected in 2016.

The court ruling by New York Supreme Court Judge Scott DelConte ordering the local election authorities to certify winners was followed earlier this week by Brindisi conceding defeat.

The Democrats cited voting irregularities and fraud, but the Democratic nominee accepted the judge’s ruling.

Whether this will come up through the House Committee on Administration remains to be seen.

Congresswoman-elect Tenney expected to be sworn-in to the House for the 117th Congress over the next week.

The NY-22 seat has been vacant since January 3 while the disputed election was adjudicated.

For the 2020 election cycle, the Republicans flipped a total of 15 seats, 14 from the Democrats including 1 open seat (IA-02). The MI-03 seat was an open seat held by Libertarian Justin Amash.

The results of the 2020 elections produced a House split of 222 Democrats to 213 Republicans. After Tenney’s swearing-in, there are currently 3 vacancies:

  • LA-02 (safe Democrat) special election March 20
  • LA-05 (safe Republican) special election March 20
  • TX-06 (competitive Republican) special election May 1 expected

For all 3, a runoff election will be held, regardless of political party, among the top 2 vote-getters if the top vote-getter doesn’t attain a 50%+1 majority of the vote.

The AP story from Saturday can be found here.


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NY-22: It’s Finally Over — 3 Comments

  1. How about the one in Iowa?

    Miller Meeks?

    Did they call that one?

    Who won?

    Also, did the House ever make a ruling on Oberweis’s objections?

  2. Miller-Meeks was sworn-in “provisionally” last month, and don’t see that changing.

    The election was certified by Iowa officials in early December.

    No ruling on Oberweis’ objection.

    No ruling is as good as objection being stopped.

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