{"id":104043,"date":"2026-02-03T17:22:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/104043\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:22:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:22:52","slug":"polls-open-for-61st-senate-district-special-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/104043\/","title":{"rendered":"Polls open for 61st Senate District special election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polls are now open for the <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/buffalo\/news\/2026\/02\/01\/sunday-marks-final-day-of-early-voting-for-61st-senate-district-special-election\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">61st Senate District special election.<\/a>\u00a0Polls will be open until 9 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Only poll sites in the 61st Senate district will be open.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic candidate Jeremy Zellner is running against Republican candidate Dan Gagliardo for the Senate seat vacated by now-Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/zellner-gagliardo-013026.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-hundred\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>There will be a special election held for the state Senate seat for District 61 on Tuesday, Feb. 3. (Spectrum News 1 Photos)<\/p>\n<p>Early voting ended with more than 7,800 votes cast.<\/p>\n<p>You can find your polling place on the Erie County Board of Elections <a href=\"https:\/\/elections.erie.gov\/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polls are now open for the 61st Senate District special election.\u00a0Polls will be open until 9 p.m. Tuesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[40138,1611,136,138,137,7596,139,40140,50,1592,25636],"class_list":["post-104043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","tag-buffalo","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-news","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}