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As the saying goes, a win is a win in an election, but the margin by which former Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) won back his old seat should leave Democrats wondering if they have a major problem headed into November.

Republican Michael Murphy won against Democrat opponent Edith Tucker in the special election for New Hampshire State House Coos County 6 on Tuesday, according to Decision Desk HQ projections.

A pair of Virginia Republicans protected two seats in the state legislature on Tuesday night in blowouts against Democrats.

MA State Rep. Peter Durant scored a victory Tuesday night in a special election for a state Senate seat in the Worcester-Hampshire district.

President Joe Biden’s pro-abortion White House is celebrating the failure of a ballot measure called Issue 1 in the Ohio special election.

In the Ohio special election on Tuesday night, Issue 1 — a measure that would have raised the threshold to pass amendments to the state constitution from 50 percent plus one to 60 percent — failed, with media outlets calling the election less than two hours after polls closed.

The passage of Issue 1 has extra significance, because if Ohioans vote “yes” and Issue 1 passes by a simple majority then a radical abortion amendment will likely have a harder time passing in November.

A pro-parent group called Protect Women Ohio (PWO) released an advertisement on Wednesday slamming the coalition of far-left organizations fighting against Issue 1, a ballot initiative set to be voted on in the August  special election that would raise the threshold to pass amendments to the state constitution from 50 percent to 60 percent.

Gabe Amo, a special assistant to President Joe Biden, resigned from his post at the White House last week to ready a special election run for a Rhode Island congressional seat, sources familiar with the situation told the Washington Post.

Democrat state representatives switching parties and one special election over the last month gave Republicans three new supermajorities in state legislatures, bringing the total to 25 nationwide.

Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) plans to resign from Congress in June to become the president and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation. His plans will inevitably set up an off-year special election to fill the seat.

Democrat Mary Peltola defeated former U.S. vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin (R) in Alaska’s special election to fill its lone vacant congressional seat, despite not receiving more than 50 percent of the initial vote.

Republican Joe Sempolinski has been heralded as the projected winner in the special election for New York’s 23rd congressional district.

Marc Molinaro, the Republican candidate for New York’s 19th Congressional District special election on Tuesday, told Breitbart News Saturday that he is “fighting back against high costs, over-regulation, crime on the rise, and the government that’s too big.”

Conservatives are “doomed” because law-abiding, respectable middle-England now sees Boris Johnson as dishonest, not a japester, Farage said.

The Liberals have flipped one of the strongest Conservative seats in the country, prompting the Tory chairman to tender his resignation.

Texas Democrat Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, who’s running against Republican Rep. Mayra Flores — the first Mexican-born woman elected to Congress — in November, resorted to “sexist” and “xenophobic” attacks against the newly sworn-in incumbent.

Rep. Marwayne Mullen (R-OK) said the Biden administration is deliberately harming the economy to justify expansion of government power.

Republican House candidate Mayra Flores successfully flipped Texas’s 34th Congressional District —  a historic Democrat stronghold and majority Hispanic district — in Tuesday night’s special election. Her win reflects what many consider to be a conservative awakening among Latino voters — a phenomenon both Breitbart News border reporter Ildefonso Ortiz and international news editor Frances Martel predicted in 2020.

Republican House candidate Mayra Flores fliped Texas’s historically Democrat-held Thirty-fourth Congressional District to red in Tuesday night’s special election.

Democrats are growing concerned about their South Texas problem as Hispanic voters have fled to the Republican Party.

Former CEO of Hormel Jeffrey Ettinger, running as a Democrat in a special election in Minnesota’s First Congressional District to replace Republican Rep. Jim Hagedorn after his death, said that critical race theory is “made up” and “not taught in schools.”

Republican Mayra Flores is leading her Democrat opponent Dan Sanchez in the special election for Texas’s 34th congressional district, a new poll finds.

The special election in Texas’s Thirty-fourth Congressional District, slated to happen on June 14 to fill the vacant House seat left by U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela’s (D-TX) retirement, is rated as a “toss-up” by the Cook Political Report, meaning the race could go either to the Democrat or the Republican.

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday called for a special election to happen on June 14, to fill the vacant House seat left open by U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela (D-TX), who announced last week he would resign from office last week after already announcing he would not seek reelection.

Republican Mayra Flores is readying to run in a forthcoming special election in Texas’s battleground 34th Congressional District and spoke about her winnability in the race during an interview on Breitbart News Saturday.

Oklahoma Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe is reportedly expected to announce his retirement in the coming days, likely triggering a special election.

Tories lost a seat that had been blue for the whole of modern UK political history, with pundits blaming Coronavirus scandals and tax rises.

Republicans celebrated Trump-endorsed Representative-elect Mike Carey’s (R-OH) major win in Ohio’s 15th Congressional District on Tuesday night after facing off against state Rep. Allison Russo (D-OH), whom President Joe Biden endorsed in a last-ditch effort to save her from a Republican defeat.

Republican Mike Carey, a former Army officer and energy executive endorsed by former President Donald Trump, won the special election for Ohio’s 15th Congressional District on Tuesday night, according to NBC News, who projected the race at 9:31 p.m.

Democrat Shontel Brown won the special election for Ohio’s 11th Congressional District on Tuesday night, according to Associated Press, which called the race at 7:53 p.m.

Mike Carey, a former Army officer and energy executive, is running in a special election to take on Democrat Congresswoman Alison Russo to change the course of President Joe Biden’s energy policies.

Republicans in Ohio’s 15th Congressional District previewed strong GOP enthusiasm Tuesday, outpacing Democrats in voting in the district’s special election primary.

Pro-Israel activists within Cleveland’s Jewish community were relieved at Shontel Brown’s victory Tuesday over left-wing Nina Turner in the Democratic Party primary race for the special election in the 11th district congressional seat.

In a surprising result, Boris Johnson’s Conservatives has been easily defeated in a special election for a seat that it has held for decades.

House Democrats will keep their seat in New Mexico’s First Congressional District after state Rep. Melanie Stansbury notched a clear victory in Tuesday’s race to fill the vacancy of former Rep. Deb Haaland, who left her post in March to become Interior Department secretary.