 His 12-point margin of victory was less than half his margins in past elections.Much of the traditional edge Republicans have had in the New York State Senate is due to dominating elections for these offices on Long Island, but the election of a Democrat to replace Michael Balboni in 2007 for the 7th District on Nassau County's North Shore demonstrated a recent weakness at that level of government as well.During the 2016 elections, Democrats flipped one state senate seat and came close to flipping three others showing the Republican dominance of Long Island's state senate seats and the chamber itself may soon come to an end.