The campaign committees of both the Assembly majority and minority are heavily involved in all three contests.

Republicans had hoped a combination of redistricting and discontent with incumbents would give them an Assembly majority.

Republican party leaders hailed the results as an endorsement of their leadership since seizing the Assembly majority in 1991.

The result was the first Democratic Assembly majority in a decade and an increase in the number of legislators who are members of minorities.

The deadlock emerged soon after the November elections had given the Republicans an Assembly majority of 41 to 39.

Democrats hold an Assembly majority of 43 to 37, and their leaders have said they will support repeal.

The loss of just one seat would end the party's 41-to-39 Assembly majority.

That year, during the Great Depression, Democrats would gain a brief Assembly majority for the first time in over 40 years.

"The Assembly majority is blocking this progress because they won't do their job and pass a state budget."

The same number, in fact, as the office of the Assembly Republican majority.