{"id":104549,"date":"2026-02-04T04:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T04:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/104549\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T04:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T04:35:15","slug":"jeremy-zellner-wins-special-election-for-61st-senate-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/104549\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Zellner wins special election for 61st Senate District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a quick 4-week special election, Zellner will be the next NYS Senator for the 61st District<\/p>\n<p>BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 As quickly as it started, it&#8217;s over.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After four weeks of campaigning Jeremy Zellner has defeated Dan Gagliardo to become elected to the 61st Senate seat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Governor Hochul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/article\/news\/politics\/elections\/special-election-61st-district-senate\/71-8202acc7-3d9a-4e2f-af17-d3b0991f670f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">called the<\/a> special election a month ago, after Sean Ryan resigned from office on the eve of being sworn in as Buffalo&#8217;s 64th Mayor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now Zellner will be heading to Albany to represent the residents of the 61st district.<\/p>\n<p>Zellner will be thrust into a hectic budget season while they pick out new drapes for the Albany office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, another campaign is on the horizon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Assemblyman Jon Rivera is planning on running for the Democratic Party nomination in the June primary, and the 61st Senate seat will once again be up for grabs in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As of 10:00 pm, Zellner garnered around 60% of the vote, with 17,892 votes cast in his favor. Gagliardo secured about 40% of the vote, with 11,950 ballots cast in his favor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a quick 4-week special election, Zellner will be the next NYS Senator for the 61st District BUFFALO,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":{"0":"post-104549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104549","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=104549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}