The campaign season in New York is getting an early start this year, jockeying that's underway now more than a year before primary voters even pick their nominees. 

Take Republican Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro, the party's 2018 gubernatorial candidate, who has released a campaign-style video this week. Or Rep. Lee Zeldin, who has already declared his campaign for governor. Or Rep. Elise Stefanik, who is also considering a bid for governor. 

The political world is in a state of flux as members of Congress await to learn their new district boundaries. Every 10 years, the lines are redrawn based on the U.S. Census.

Granted, much of the early push is, in part, due to the controversies facing Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the need to raise money early and often for a statewide campaign. 

But for voters, that means potentially getting a new representative in Washington or Albany. For elected officials, it could mean even losing their seats.

"It's going to be a lot of pressure nationally for New York to use what I'd call an opportunity politically to try to eliminate some of the seats held by Republicans," said Utica College political science professor Luke Perry. 

New York could lose as many as two seats in the House of Representatives because the state's population did not grow as fast as parts of the rest of the country. In the last round of boundary changes, New York lost two seats, one upstate and another in New York City. 

"It's also quite uncertain if that's going to happen, or if there would be some type of parity between upstate and downstate," Perry said. 

A decade ago, members of Congress hired lobbyists to influence the process that played out behind closed doors in Albany. The process this time around is meant to have less overt influence by the Legislature, controlled by Democrats. 

But how do voters navigate all these coming changes? Many New Yorkers could have a stranger representing them in Congress after the next election.  

"Voters would be wise to try to stay as informed as possible," Perry said. "This is a very fluid situation, and as the boundaries begin to materialize, try to understand where you're at and how you can make the biggest impact on the political process."