New York 23--William Lewis "Bill" Owens (D) 3

UPDATED NOVEMBER 4, 2009. Incumbent John McHugh (R) was appointed Secretary of the Army and resigned this seat. In a special election widely covered in the national media, Bill Owens (D) was elected in a three way race to succeed him on November 3, 2009. Owens was born in 1949 and is Catholic.

Obama won 52% of the vote in this district in 2008.

ORIGINAL COMMENT: This big mostly rural district is closely divided. Bush won 51% of the vote in 2004.

McHugh has won by large margins since his first election in 1992.

He was born in 1948 and is Catholic.