NEW YORK — Early, in-person voting began Saturday in New York’s congressional party primaries, which will set the final field for a slew of competitive contests in the general election this autumn.
Voters in two parts of the state are also picking new members of Congress in special elections to replace U.S. House members who resigned.
Some of the hottest contests will be an early test of where the Democratic and Republican parties are headed in the midterm elections.
In a special election in the Hudson Valley and the Catskills, Ulster County Executive Patrick Ryan, a Democrat, has campaigned on a promise to protect abortion access while Republican Marc Molinaro, the Dutchess County executive, has focused on inflation, gas prices and crime.