Election/2006 New York State Assembly elections

Election
The 2006 New York State House elections were held on November 3, 2006 to elect representatives from all 150 State House districts in the U.S. State of New York. Primary elections were held on September 13, 2006.

Democrats held a total of 76 seats in the State House going into the election to the Republicans 70 seats while 4 seats were held by independents, 2 of each caucused with both the Democrats and Republicans bringing their total number of seats to 78 and 72 respectively. The Republican Party, hoping to regain the majority it lost in the 2002 election or at least expand its legislative membership, lost an additional seat and underperformed in what many analysts believed to be a potential Republican pickup during the 2006 state legislative elections. Democrats performed much better than expected in key battleground districts that Republicans saw as potential pickups.

Republicans gained the 90th and 123rd districts while Democrats flipped the 30th, 38th and 110th districts. Despite failing to regain control of the State House, Republicans significantly improved on their popular vote margin increasing it by 6.5 percentage points.