 In the 2018 midterm elections, the Democrats flipped four State Senate seats on Long Island, and the Democrats took control of the State Senate.Long Island has 22 seats in the New York State Assembly, of which 11 are held by Republicans, 9 are held by Democrats, 1 is held by an Independence Party member who caucuses with the Democrats and one is vacant but was most recently held by a Republican.On the western side, both Brooklyn and Queens are reliably Democratic, although Queens became that way fairly recently, having still been politically volatile through the 1980s.