New York State Senator Kemp Hannon has been re-elected to serve his seventh term in the state Assembly, defeating three other candidates who sought to unseat him.

Hannon, who ran on the Republican, Independence, and Conservative Party lines defeated Mark Keefe, who ran on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines, Brian Evans who ran on the Liberal Party line and Paul Callahan who ran on the Right-to-Life Party lines. Both Hannon and Callahan are from Garden City, while both Evans and Keefe are from Uniondale.

The 6th Senatorial District includes areas such as Garden City, Levittown, Farmingdale, Uniondale, Franklin Square, Plainview, North Massapequa, and East Meadow.

Hannon received, according to unofficial results from the Nassau County Board of Elections, 51,918 votes to Keefe's 44,526 votes, Callahan's 2,573 votes and Evans 607 votes.

Hannon who is chair of the Senate's Health Committee, also serves on the Labor and Codes Committee; the Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committees; the Elections Committee; Energy and Telecommunications Committee and the Insurance Committee. Health issues have been a real concern to Hannon and in his tenure he has worked on the Health Care Reform Act of 2000, sponsored and helped enact laws allowing patients to challenge decisions by HMOs, and help enact the Physician's Profiling Bill recently signed into law by the governor. Hannon is also responsible for laws which reform cancer registry reporting, facilitate organ donation in the state, and ease the use of the drug Epinephrine to treat serious allergic reactions. These issues and all issues affecting his constituents are of the utmost importance to him, according to Hannon.

Of his re-election the senator said, "I think it is a reflection that I addressed the concerns about issues that were on people's minds, provided solid problem-solving solutions to casework that was called in or written into the office, and have been attentive to the district."