Voters in Texas’s 6th Congressional District are again heading to the polls today to vote in a runoff for the special election back in early May. Texas 6th covers all of Ellis and Navarro Counties, as well as southeastern Tarrant County. The seat is open after Rep. Ron Wright passed away after a battle with […]
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The Special Election Runoff in Texas’s Sixth Congressional District
The special election runoff for Texas’s Sixth Congressional district is a sleepier affair than most other special elections. Total turnout for the May blanket (all party) primary was 53K less than turnout for the special election in New Mexico’s First District despite TX-06 having over 100K more (ACS projected) residents than NM-01. Democratic voters and […]
Senator Lisa Murkowski’s Electoral Dilemma
Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski’s last binary Democrat versus Republican election was in 2004. The 2010 and 2016 Senate elections were multiparty affairs. Murkowski became the second ever senator to win a write-in reelection campaign after losing the GOP primary in 2010. She then defeated the same conservative challenger who ran as a Libertarian in the […]
Special Election Results from Georgia, Alabama, and Wisconsin
There are state legislative special elections in three states today. Two in Georgia, two in Alabama, and one in Wisconsin. We will have the election results for you here as polls close in each state. Georgia First, in Georgia, there are two runoffs taking place for State House of Representatives seats that are open following […]
The Increasingly Uncompetitive California Gubernatorial Recall Election
In April California’s Secretary of State Shirley Weber announced that the campaign against Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom had enough signatures to trigger a recall election. Weber’s office finalized and officially confirmed the recall petition’s success on June 23rd. On July 1st Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis announced a recall date of September 14th, leaving just ten […]