In the meantime, changes to provincial electoral laws were passed during the previous Legislature decreased the number of candidates the party needs to run in general elections from ten to two.

The session, the 210th, will begin Wednesday with Governor Cuomo's State of the State address to a newly elected Legislature that breaks down by party the same way as the previous Legislature: 94 Democrats and 56 Republicans in the Assembly; 35 Republicans and 26 Democrats in the Senate.

This Legislature," he said, "which is not all Republican and not all Democrat, has done something that previous Legislatures, given the same stimuli, didn't do.

The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued as members of this Legislature.