Christopher Gibson
Election Facts
Length of Time in Office
- 1st Term
- First Elected 2010
Committees:
Special Congressional Election 2009
- Scott Murphy (D-I-WFP) 80,833
- Jim Tedisco (R) 80,107
2008 Presidential Election
- Obama 167,827
- McCain 157,879
District Demographics
- Hispanic 2.7%
- Asian 13.3%
- Black 2.5%%
- White 92.1%
Report Card
The Twentieth Congressional District is a majority-Republican district which has trended Democratic over the last half-decade. In 2006, it sent Kirsten Gillibrand to Washington and in 2008 it went for Barack Obama. 2009 saw the election of freshman Congressman Scott Murphy in one of the narrowest Congressional victories in the country. In a special election held after Gillibrand left her seat to go to the Senate, Murphy beat long-time anti-immigrant politician Jim Tedisco by fewer than 800 votes.
The Twentieth District is one of the least ethnically diverse in the state. It takes in the vacation areas around Saratoga, the eastern and northern Albany suburbs, the hip river town of Hudson and much of the upper Catskills. It had been the heartland of old-school moderate Northeastern Republicanism, but has turned increasingly to Democrats as the GOP has moved to the right.
But that trend towards the Democrats did not save Scott Murphy from being swamped in the Republican electoral wave of 2010 by Chris Gibson.
New Congressman Christopher Gibson has no voting record on immigration issues. During his campaign he issued a statement opposing the successful Justice Department lawsuit against Arizona’s anti-immigrant law SB-1070. Gibson supports an enforcement approach to undocumented immigrants, although he did state during the campaign that undocumented immigrants might be allowed to participate in an undefined employment visa program if they “admitted guilt” and paid a fine.
Contact Chris Gibson
Washington, DC
502 Cannon HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-5614
Fax: (202) 225-1168
Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00AM-5:00PM Eastern time
Glens Falls
136 Glen Street
Glens Falls, NY 12801
Phone: (518) 743-0964
Fax: (518) 743-1391
Kinderhook
2 Hudson Street, PO BOX 775
Kinderhook, NY 12106
Phone: (518) 610-8133
Saratoga Springs
513 Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Phone: (518) 306-5450
