![]() ![]() (AP) - Democrat Troy Carter won Saturday’s special election for Louisiana’s vacant U.S. Should the two parties each hold all their risked seats, the House will return to a 222D-213R party division.BATON ROUGE, La. Alcee Hastings (D-Delray Beach), has not yet been scheduled. ![]() The final vacancy, that of the late Florida Rep. Mike DeWine (R) will also schedule the Stivers’ district on a concurrent schedule once that seat officially opens. The Ohio vacancy to replace Housing & Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge (D-Cleveland-Akron) is scheduled for an August 3rd primary and November 2nd general election. Mark Moores (R-Albuquerque) in a seat that now decidedly favors the Democrats. Melanie Stansbury (D-Albuquerque) and state Sen. The two parties have already nominated state Rep. Greg Abbott (R) will call the special election between the top two finishers that will likely occur in late June.Īfter the North Texas vote, the June 1st New Mexico special election to replace Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, who resigned the Albuquerque anchored seat to join the Biden cabinet, will be held. Under Texas election law, the runoff cannot be scheduled until the official vote canvass declares that no one reached the 50% plateau. The tight Data for Progress survey result, a range that several other public and private pollsters confirm, clearly suggests that we will see a secondary runoff election because no one will come close to receiving majority support. Jake Ellzey (R-Waxahachie), who has been the subject of independent expenditure attacks from conservative groups, follows with 13%. In second place is 2018 Democratic congressional nominee Jana Lynne Sanchez who posted 16% support. Wright leading the huge pack of candidates (11 Republicans 10 Democrats 1 Libertarian 1 Independent) with 22% preference. A total of 23 candidates are in the field including the Congressman’s widow, Susan Wright (R).Ī new Data for Progress poll (4/5-12 344 TX-6 likely special election voters text and web panel response) finds Ms. Next Saturday, the jungle primary in TX-6 will begin the replacement process to succeed the late Texas US Rep. The remaining five vacancies will be settled throughout the rest of the year. The GOP number will drop to 211 on May 16th when Rep. When Rep-Elect Carter is sworn into the House, the Democratic conference will grow to 219 members as compared to 212 Republicans. Carter prevailing there with only 53% in the area where both candidates call home.Įach contender spent upward of $1 million for their campaigns, with outside organizations also weighing in with equivalent expenditures. The parish yielded a close vote with Sen. ![]() The district’s largest locality, Orleans Parish that encompasses the city of New Orleans, produced just over half of Saturday’s turnout. Peterson’s greater strength came in the Baton Rouge area, and the pattern repeated itself on Saturday. As was the case in the primary election, Sen. The Representative-Elect performed better only in St. He recorded a big win in Jefferson Parish (67-33%), the district’s second largest local entity. Carter captured six of the ten parishes that comprise the 2nd District. The figures translated into a vote drop-off percentage rate of 7.2. The unofficial final turnout figure was 87,806, a little less than 6,800 voters under the original March 20th primary participation factor of 94,567. In the end, the competitive and at times nasty campaign between the two state legislators culminated in a 55-45% win for Sen. Cedric Richmond (D-New Orleans) resigned from Congress to accept a position in the Biden White House, featured a double-Democratic runoff meaning the party was guaranteed to hold the seat, but which would be the winning liberal faction appeared open to question. In a race pitting the Louisiana Democratic establishment opposite the national progressive left Justice Democrats’ movement, state Senator Troy Carter (D-New Orleans), the establishment candidate, defeated state Senator Karen Carter Peterson (D-New Orleans) who the Justice Democrats supported, to win the 2nd Congressional District special election on Saturday night. ![]()
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