Linda Stender was narrowly defeated by incumbent Representative Mike Ferguson in 2006 but lost by a wider margin to Leonard Lance,  the U.S. Representative for New Jersey 's 7 congressional district , serving since what year?
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Linda Stender Linda Stender (born July 25, 1951) is an American Democratic Party politician who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2002 to 2016, where she represented the 22nd legislative district. She ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the United States House of Representatives, seeking to represent New Jersey's 7th District, in 2006 and 2008. She was narrowly defeated by incumbent Representative Mike Ferguson in 2006 but lost by a wider margin to Leonard Lance in the November 4, 2008 election.
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Leonard Lance Leonard J. Lance (born June 25, 1952) is the U.S. Representative for New Jersey 's 7 congressional district , serving since 2009. He is a member of the Republican Party. He previously served in the New Jersey Senate and the New Jersey General Assembly where he had been lauded by legislative peers as a moderate Republican. Since 2009, however, his positions have shifted to conservative Republican positions, such as against environmental regulation, and against Planned Parenthood. He has been a staunch opponent of the Affordable Care Act and against abortion rights; in 2017 he voted against federally funded insurance plans which provide coverage for abortion.
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Kansas's 7th congressional district Kansas's 7th congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in the state of Kansas is a defunct congressional district.
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New Jersey's congressional districts There were 12 United States congressional districts in New Jersey based on results from the 2010 Census. There were once as many as 15. The  was lost after the 1980 Census, the  was lost after the 1990 Census, and the  was lost after the 2010 Census.
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Chris Gibson (New York politician) Christopher Patrick "Chris" Gibson (born May 13, 1964) is an American politician, former officer in the United States Army and member of the Republican Party who served as the U.S. Representative for New York 's 19 congressional district from 2011 to 2017.
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Diane Allen Diane B. Allen (born March 8, 1948 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American Republican Party legislator, who has been serving in the New Jersey State Senate since 1998, where she represents the 7th Legislative District. She served as the Deputy Republican Conference Leader from 2002 to 2003 and as the Majority Whip from 1998 to 2001. She has been the Deputy Minority Leader in the N.J. Senate since 2004. She was a member of the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature, the New Jersey General Assembly, from 1996 to 1998. Allen is the Chair of the National Foundation for Women Legislators.
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Jackie Speier Karen Lorraine Jacqueline Speier ( ; born May 14, 1950) is the U.S. Representative for California 's 14 congressional district , serving in Congress since 2008. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 12th District from 2008 to 2013, includes the northern two-thirds of San Mateo County and the southwest quarter of San Francisco. She represents much of the territory that had been represented by her political mentor, Leo Ryan.
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Nancy Pinkin Nancy J. Pinkin is an American Democratic Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 2014, where she represents the 18th Legislative District.
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Barbara Kalik Barbara Kalik (born November 8, 1936) is an American politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from the 7th Legislative District from 1978 to 1992.
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Christopher J. Brown Christopher J. Brown is an American Republican Party politician who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since January 2012, representing the 8th Legislative District.
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Mike Gallagher (American politician) Michael John Gallagher (born March 3, 1984) is an American politician who is the U.S. Representative for Wisconsin 's 8 congressional district . He was elected in the 2016 elections and took office on January 3, 2017.
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Frank Wolf (politician) Frank Rudolph Wolf (born January 30, 1939) is an American Republican former legislator who represented Virginia 's 10 congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from January 1981 to his retirement in January 2015. He announced in December 2013 that he would not run for re-election in 2014, after he slumped in early polls, and retired at the conclusion of his 17th term in office. At the time of his announcement, he was the state's longest serving congressman, serving for 34 consecutive years.
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Peter Welch Peter Francis Welch (born May 2, 1947) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who has been serving as the U.S. Representative for Vermont 's at-large congressional  since 2007.
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Denise Coyle Denise Coyle (born June 22, 1953) is an American Republican Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from January 2008 to January 2012, where she represented the 16th Legislative District.
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Connie Myers Connie Myers (born November 14, 1944) is an American Republican Party politician, who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1996 to 2006, where she represented the 23rd legislative district. Myers served in the Assembly on the Appropriations Committee and the Regulatory Oversight Committee.
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William J. Hughes William John "Bill" Hughes (born October 17, 1932) served as a Democratic Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975 to 1995, representing New Jersey’s Second Congressional District which includes major portions of the Jersey Shore and Pine Barrens, the cities of Vineland and Atlantic City, and the counties of Salem, Cumberland, Atlantic, Cape May and part of Gloucester. After retiring from Congress in 1995, Hughes was appointed by President Bill Clinton as United States Ambassador to Panama, a post he held until October, 1998 leading up to the historic turnover of the Panama Canal to Panamanian control.
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Shirley Turner Shirley Kersey Turner (born July 3, 1941) is an American Democratic Party politician, who has been serving in the New Jersey State Senate since 1998, where she represents the 15th Legislative District.
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New Jersey General Assembly elections, 2009 The 2009 New Jersey General Assembly elections were held on November 3, 2009 for all 80 seats in the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature. Voters in New Jersey's 40 legislative districts cast 4,204,034 votes, two votes per person. The Democratic Party won a 47-seat majority while losing the popular vote. The Republican Party won a majority of votes cast but received only a 33-seat minority, an increase of 1 seat from their 2007 election results. The election coincided with a gubernatorial election where Democratic incumbent Governor Jon Corzine was defeated by Republican challenger Chris Christie.
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Linda Sánchez Linda Teresa Sánchez (born January 28, 1969) is the U.S. Representative for California 's 38 congressional district , serving in Congress since 2003. She is a member of the Democratic Party. She currently serves on the powerful Ways and Means Committee and is the ranking member on the Ethics Committee. In the 114th Congress, she served as Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
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Niki Tsongas Nicola Dickson "Niki" Sauvage Tsongas ( ; born April 26, 1946) is an American politician and the current U.S. Representative for Massachusetts 's 3 congressional district . From 2007 to 2013 she represented Massachusetts 's 5 congressional district , the district her husband Paul Tsongas served prior to being elected to the United States Senate. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Following John Kerry's appointment as Secretary of State, she was widely expected to run in the 2013 special election for the Senate seat once held by her husband; she put such speculations to rest when she announced her endorsement of Representative Ed Markey instead.
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New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2017 The 2017 election for the Governor of New Jersey will take place on November 7. There are seven candidates. Candidates for Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey run on the same ticket and thus are elected at the same time. Incumbent Republican Governor Chris Christie, who was re-elected to a second term in 2013, is term-limited and cannot run for a third consecutive term.
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Neil M. Cohen Neil M. Cohen (born February 11, 1951) is an American Democratic Party politician, who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1994 to 2008 (and also from 1990–1991), where he represented the 20th Legislative District.