NY Sen. Patty Ritchie is the Senator in the New York Legislature who represents the 48th district and received 79.6% of the vote in her last election. She is a member of the Women's Issues, Elections, NY Joint, Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs, Health, and Finance committees.

She works most frequently on Health (591 bills), Crime and Law Enforcement (429 bills), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) (426 bills), Economics and Public Finance (410 bills), and Education (390 bills). She has sponsored 915 bills in her last nine year(s) in office, voting with her party 98.2% of the time, getting 39.56% of her bills out of committee, and 8.85% of her sponsored bills enacted.

Sen. Ritchie most frequently works on legislation with Patrick Gallivan (R-NY-59) (733 bills), Michael Ranzenhofer (R-NY-61) (690 bills), and James Seward (R-NY-51) (623 bills). She most frequently votes with Joseph Robach (R-NY-56) (95.64%), James Tedisco (R-NY-49) (95.62%), and Philip Boyle (R-NY-4) (94.7%).

She received her undergraduate degree from the State University of New York, Potsdam.