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New York State Senate District 43
Union Graduate College—MBA in Healthcare Management; Keuka College—Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy; Hudson Valley Community College—Associate in Arts
Data last updated 10/21/2026
Jake Ashby was elected to the New York State Senate on November 8, 2022, representing District 43 after serving in the State Assembly from 2018 to 2022 and previously serving as a Rensselaer County legislator. He is a former Army Reserves Captain who completed combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, worked as an occupational therapist for twenty years, served as a rehabilitation director, operated a community-based practice, and taught healthcare at Maria College.
Committee Assignments: Aging — Ranking Member · Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs — Ranking Member · Administrative Regulations Review Commission (ARRC) — Member · Disabilities — Member · Health — Member · Insurance — Member
Jacob Ashby, the Republican incumbent for New York State Senate District 43, serves on the Senate Health and Insurance committees and has emphasized healthcare workforce shortages, mental health/substance-use access, telehealth, and disability-related care access. His healthcare record includes sponsoring proposals for a health-care-worker peer support program and insurance access for outpatient substance-use treatment, and co-sponsoring bills on school-based telehealth mental-health clinics, Medicaid complex-care assistants, and wheelchair repair access.
Jacob Ashby, the Republican incumbent senator for New York State Senate District 43, emphasizes affordability, tax relief, workforce participation, small-business support, and infrastructure as part of his economy and jobs agenda. His legislative record includes proposals for hiring incentives, farm-sector labor flexibility, utility-cost relief, restaurant security tax credits, and expanded privileges for farm beverage producers.
Jacob Ashby, the Republican incumbent for New York State Senate District 43, has emphasized a mixed enforcement-and-protection approach: restricting warrantless ICE activity in sensitive locations while preserving coordination with federal officials for criminal proceedings, judicial warrants, ports of entry, and detained removable noncitizens. He has also opposed expanding certain state benefits to undocumented immigrants and criticized unplanned migrant relocations to upstate communities.
Specific Actions & Proposals
In an official Senate column, Ashby criticized New York City’s use of a contractor to send migrants to upstate communities without notice, communication, or a detailed plan.
SourceAshby’s official Senate biography says he has voted to expand counseling, job training, and immigration services for veterans and their families.
SourceJacob Ashby (Republican, New York State Senate District 43) generally emphasizes energy affordability and grid reliability, criticizing New York's rapid CLCPA-driven transition away from natural gas while supporting some targeted clean-energy incentives. His record includes opposing renewable-energy siting on reforestation lands, co-sponsoring an energy-storage sales-tax exemption, and joining Republican colleagues in opposing the 2025 Draft State Energy Plan.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Ashby joined written comments opposing the Draft State Energy Plan, arguing it would undermine reliability, raise costs, and over-rely on wind, solar, and battery storage while downplaying natural gas and nuclear power.
SourceJacob Ashby, Republican state senator for New York Senate District 43, has supported education measures emphasizing school mental-health staffing data, career and technical education pathways, expanded scholarship eligibility, dyslexia interventions, and assistance for training English-as-a-new-language teachers. His record includes sponsoring or co-sponsoring multiple education-related bills in the New York State Senate rather than a single broad campaign education platform.
Jacob "Jake" Ashby emphasizes a law-and-order public safety agenda focused on restoring judicial discretion/pretrial detention for dangerous defendants, increasing penalties for repeat retail theft and assaults on police/first responders, and strengthening drug enforcement against fentanyl and xylazine.
NYSenate.gov
https://www.nysenate.gov/senators/jacob-ashby/aboutFetched: biography, education, location, committees
New York State Board of Elections
https://elections.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/05/accessible-june-23-2026-primary-certification-amended-5.13.26_0.pdfFetched: candidate_office_confirmation
Transparency USA
https://www.transparencyusa.org/ny/candidate/jake-ashby?cycle=2024-election-cycleFetched: campaignFinance
The Business Council of New York State
https://www.bcnys.org/news/business-council-new-york-state-pac-announces-2026-political-endorsementsFetched: endorsements
New York League of Conservation Voters
https://www.nylcv.org/wp-content/uploads/NYS-Scorecard-2025.pdfFetched: ratings
New York League of Conservation Voters
https://nylcv.org/wp-content/uploads/nys-scorecard-2024.pdfFetched: ratings
Planned Parenthood Empire State Acts
https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/uploads/filer_public/f2/02/f202ff2c-c444-49b0-b57d-795cc2cf2b3c/2024_ratings_senate_oct.pdfFetched: ratings
NYSenate.gov - About Jacob Ashby
https://www.nysenate.gov/senators/jacob-ashby/aboutFetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov - Senate Bill S1827
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S1827Fetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov - Senate Bill S5263
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S5263Fetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov - Senate Bill S584
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S584Fetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov - Senate Bill S4462A
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S4462/amendment/AFetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov - Senate Bill S6369
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S6369Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - About Jacob Ashby
https://www.nysenate.gov/senators/jacob-ashby/aboutFetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - S4268
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S4268Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - S3074
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S3074Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - S2489
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S2489Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - S4327
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S4327Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - S1824
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S1824Fetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov
https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/articles/2023/jacob-ashby/legislative-column-sen-jake-ashbyFetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov - Jacob Ashby District 43 Opinion Survey
https://www.nysenate.gov/questionnaires/jacob-ashby/jake-ashby-district-43-opinion-surveyFetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov - Draft State Energy Plan Written Comments
https://www.nysenate.gov/sites/default/files/file/2025-09/draft-energy-plan-written-comments.pdfFetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov - Senate Bill S4408
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S4408Fetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov - Senate Bill S1527
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S1527Fetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov - Senate Bill S4046
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S4046Fetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov - Senator Jacob Ashby's Legislation
https://www.nysenate.gov/senators/jacob-ashby/legislationFetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov - Senate Bill S7644
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S7644Fetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov - Senate Bill S376
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S376Fetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov - Senate Bill S3667
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S3667Fetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov - Senate Bill S5653
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S5653Fetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov - Senate Bill S6780
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S6780Fetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov - Senate Bill S5667
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S5667Fetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov - Senate Bill S5374
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S5374Fetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov - Senate Bill S7599
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S7599Fetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov - Senate Bill S6208
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S6208Fetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov - Senate Bill S7763A
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S7763/amendment/AFetched: issuePositions