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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.

New Mexico state Sen. Mark Moores (R) depicts how radical his opponent, state Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D), is in a political ad released Tuesday.

New Mexico state Sen. Mark Moores told Breitbart News this weekend that his opponent in the upcoming June 1 special election in New Mexico’s First Congressional District is “absolutely radical.”

New Mexico Republican Elisa Martinez is vying for the recently vacated U.S. House seat in her state, telling host Matthew Boyle on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Saturday she intends to fight for the working class and combat the Biden administration’s energy and immigration plans should she be elected.

At least 30,000 mail-in votes were tallied after election day on April 7 in Wisconsin, according to voting records.

Assemblywoman Christy Smith (D-Santa Clarita) conceded defeat to Republican Mike Garcia on Wednesday afternoon in the special election in California’s 25th congressional district, giving Republicans their first pickup in the state in 22 years.

Former President Barack Obama endorsed State Assemblywoman Christy Smith (D-Santa Clarita) on Tuesday, wading into the May 12th special election to replace Katie Hill.

A poll released on Friday shows Democrat Dan McCready leading Republican Dan Bishop by four points with less than two weeks to go before the September 10 special election in North Carolina’s Ninth Congressional District.

Dr. Greg Murphy, the conservative anti-establishment candidate in North Carolina’s third congressional district, crushed the establishment-backed Dr. Joan Perry on his way to winning the GOP nomination for the special election Tuesday night in what amounted to a proxy battle inside the Republican Party.

A new poll released this week shows the Republican candidate for North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District special election with an early lead over his Democrat challenger.

Republican Mark Harris announced on Tuesday he will not run in the special election ordered in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District last week by the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE), citing health concerns.

The disgraced Texas Democrat lawmaker recently convicted in a federal fraud case and sentenced to 12 years in prison filed court documents to appeal his conviction Tuesday. He wants the taxpayers to pay his legal fees.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott called for an emergency special election to replace San Antonio Democrat State Senator Carlos Uresti, who resigned this week following 11 federal convictions for fraud and money laundering.

Despite the embarrassing humiliation delivered in the public repudiation of her leadership by winning Democratic Congressional candidate Conor Lamb in Pennsylvania’s special election on Tuesday, 77-year-old U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi clings tenaciously to her party’s top position in the lower chamber of Congress.

Former Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) raised speculation in a television interview that she may run to replace Sen. Al Franken (D-MN).

OZARK, Alabama – Now that the fat lady is finally warming up to sing the finale in what has been the never-ending saga of Alabama’s U.S. Senate special election cycle, there are a few things spectators can watch for before

The president will host his rally in Pensacola Florida, according to the Washington Post, which is about 20 miles from Alabama. The rally is billed as a Trump event, however, he may address the upcoming special election on December 12.

Ainge for three! Yes!!! We heard that call belted out many times from Marv Albert over the years. The Marvelous One was talking about NBA great Danny Ainge hitting three-pointers from all over the court.

Seven Alabama delegates for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election have endorsed Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) for the Senate seat now held by Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL), including Alabama State Representative Ed Henry, who was the chairman of Trump’s campaign in that state.

Now that Karen Handel has won — and won decisively, stunning the pollsters and pundits once again — the road is wide open for Trump’s legislative agenda.

California State Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez (D-Los Angeles) won a runoff election Tuesday to replace former Rep. Xavier Becerra as the U.S. Representative for the 34th congressional district, defeating an effort by attorney Robert Lee Ahn to become the first Korean-American member of Congress.

It was a photo finish in the “jungle primary” special election in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District on Tuesday to select a replacement for Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), punctuated by unusual technical reporting delays from Fulton County, the largest county in the district.

Ryan Mahoney, spokesperson for the Georgia Republican Party, spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday regarding the Sixth Congressional District special “jungle primary” election in Georgia to replace recently appointed Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price (R).

Georgia Republican Bruce LeVell told Breitbart News Wednesday he is running in Tuesday’s Georgia’s sixth congressional district special election to support President Donald Trump’s agenda, not as a conservative or a moderate, but as a Trumplican.

Jon Ossoff, the 30-year old Democratic front runner in the April 18 “jungle primary” special election to replace Dr. Tom Price, recently confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services, in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District, does not even live in the district.

Republican Ron Estes won Tuesday’s special election in the Fourth Congressional District of Kansas to replace the district’s former representative, Mike Pompeo, who was named earlier this year by President Trump to serve as Director of the CIA, the Associated Press reported late Tuesday.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) “rallied Monday afternoon with about 200 [Ron] Estes supporters in a hangar stop near Eisenhower National Airport, the last major campaign event leading up to Tuesday’s election,” the Wichita Eagle reported in the closely watched battle to replace CIA Director Mike Pompeo in the Fourth Congressional District of Kansas.

On the first business day following House Speaker John Boehner’s resignation, J.D. Winteregg filed his necessary paperwork, becoming the first candidate on the regular ballot to replace Boehner in Ohio’s 8th District.

Word is quickly spreading through the Illinois 18th District that establishment candidate Darin LaHood is flush with lobbyist cash and that the special election to replace disgraced Rep. Aaron Schock is quickly becoming a race between LaHood’s big money K Street donors and grassroots Tea Party favorite Mike Flynn.

California’s powerful unions lost a key special election this week in an all-Democrat race for State Senate in the East Bay that pitted a reformist candidate, Orinda Mayor Steve Glazer, against a reliable Big Labor vote, Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla. The race took place on what was nominally Republican turf, after State Sen. Mark DeSaulnier resigned. Heavy spending by independent groups on both sides–and the state’s new “jungle” primary–helped Glazer win 55%-45%.

It turns out that who isn’t voting may have just as much, or more, to do with who wins an election that who does vote. Certainly that was the case in the recent special election in Orange County to fill the vacated First District Supervisor seat, created when Supervisor Janet Nguyen was elected last November to the California State Senate, vacating her county position.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) announced an expedited schedule on Wednesday evening for the special election to fill the recently vacated seat for Texas House District 124. The election will be on March 31, 2015. The district primarily represents western portions of San Antonio and Bexar County.

Special elections were held on Tuesday for four seats in the Texas Legislature: Senate District 26, where Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer (D-San Antonio) faces Rep. Jose Menendez (D-San Antonio); House District 13, where Carolyn Bilski (R) faces Leighton Schubert (R); House District 17, where John Cyrier (R) faces Brent Golemon (R), and House District 123, where Diego Bernal (D) faces Nunzio Previtera (R).

The new ad from State Representative Trey Martinez Fischer (R-San Antonio) in his quest to succeed State Senator Leticia Van de Putte touts Fischer’s prowess “fighting” with Republicans and ends with a promise that “some fights you can’t back down from — Dan Patrick’s gonna learn that.”