Question: The Town of Hempstead in New York, United States is in what New York State Senate district?

Context articles: New York's 6th State Senate district
Byron Brown
John J. Flanagan
New York's 99th State Assembly district
Charles J. Fuschillo Jr.
New York's 7th State Senate district
New York's 2nd State Senate district
Andrea Stewart-Cousins
Merrick, New York
New York state elections, 2016

New York's 6th State Senate district is one of 63 districts of the New York State Senate.
 It is currently represented by Kemp Hannon (R).
 Senator Hannon was first elected in 1989 and serves as Senate Health Committee's chairman.
Byron William Brown II (born September 24, 1958) is the 62nd and current mayor of Buffalo, New York, elected on November 8, 2005 and is the city's first African-American mayor.
 He previously served Western New York as a member of the New York State Senate and Buffalo Common Council.
 He was the first African-American politician elected to the New York State Senate to represent a district outside New York City and the first member of any minority race to represent a majority white New York State Senate district.
John J. Flanagan (born May 7, 1961) represents the 2nd District of the New York State Senate, which includes the entire Town of Smithtown and portions of both the Towns of Brookhaven and Huntington, all located in Suffolk County, New York.
 Flanagan succeeded his father, John J. Flanagan, Sr., who served in the New York State Assembly from 1973 to 1986, when Flanagan, Jr. was first elected at age 25, serving until 2002, when he was elected to the New York State Senate.
 On May 11, 2015, Flanagan was elected as Temporary President of the New York State Senate.
New York State Assembly, District 99 is located in the southern part of the State of New York in the United States.
 District 99 is north of New York City and is composed of parts of Orange and Rockland Counties.
 It is encompassed by New York's 39th State Senate district and New York's 18th congressional district.
Charles J. Fuschillo, Jr. (born July 1, 1960) is a former Republican member of the New York State Senate from Long Island.
 From 1998 to 2013, he represented the 8th State Senate district which spans several South Shore communities in both Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
 The district currently includes the communities of Wantagh, Merrick, Bellmore, Massapequa Park, Freeport, Roosevelt, Seaford, Amityville, and Copiague, as well as parts of Massapequa, Farmingdale, Baldwin, Lindenhurst, West Babylon, Wheatley Heights, and Wyandanch.
 Senator Fuschillo resigned from the New York State Senate on December 31, 2013 to serve as the CEO of the Alzheimer's Foundation of America.
New York's 7th State Senate district is one of 63 districts of the New York State Senate.
 It is currently represented by Jack M. Martins (R).
 Senator Martins was first elected in 2010 and serves as Senate Labor Committee's chairman.
New York's 2nd State Senate district is one of 62 districts of the New York State Senate.
 It is currently represented by John J. Flanagan (R).
 Senator Flanagan is New York State Senate's majority leader and temporary president.
Andrea Stewart-Cousins (Democrat, Independence and Working Families) is a New York State Senator and the first woman in New York State history to lead a conference in Albany.
 The Yonkers resident represents the 35th State Senate district in New York which in its present configuration includes Ardsley, Dobbs Ferry, Elmsford, Greenburgh, Hastings-on-Hudson, Irvington, Tarrytown, Scarsdale and parts of Yonkers, White Plains, and New Rochelle.
 Prior to being elected to the New York State Senate, she was a Westchester County Legislator.
 She was elected to the New York State Senate in 2006.
 In 2012, her colleagues chose her to be the first female legislative leader; she currently serves as Democratic Conference Leader.
Merrick is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, United States.
 As of the 2010 census , the CDP population was 22,097.
 The name "Merrick" is taken from "Meroke", the name (meaning peaceful) of the Algonquian tribe formerly indigenous to the area.
 It is served by the Merrick station on the Long Island Rail Road.
The 2016 New York State Legislature Primary Elections took place on September 13, 2016 and the general election was held on November 8, 2016.
 All 150 members of the New York State Assembly and all 63 seats of the New York State Senate were up for election.
 There are no term limited members as New York does not have term limits for positions at the state level.
 Members of the Assembly and the State Senate serve two year terms.
 The State Senate was heavily contested as the Democrats and Republicans both had 31 seats with the Republicans only controlling the Senate through a coalition deal with Democratic Senator Simcha Felder and the Independent Democratic Conference.
 The 2016 United States presidential election also occurred on the same date as the general election.