2017 Special Election Thread: CT House 68

[heatcharger]

I thought there should be one of these as there will be a fair amount of them in the next few months.

Here are the ones that have happened so far:

VA Senate 9: McClellan (D) 91.3% defeats Fauconier (L) 8.1%
VA Senate 22: Peake (R) 53.1% defeats Washington (D) 39.6%
VA House 85: Holcomb (R) 52.8% defeats Turpin (D) 47.1%

IA House 89: Kurth (D) 72% defeats Gonzales (R) 27%

VA House 71: Bourne (D) 89.9% defeats Barclay (L) 6.6%

MN House 32B: Neu (R) 53.2% defeats Warner (D) 46.7%

DE House 10: Hansen (D) 58.1% defeats Marino (R) 40.8%

CT Senate 2: McCrory (D) 74.1% defeats McDonald (R) 25.3%
CT Senate 32: Berthel (R) 53.9% defeats Cava (D) 44.2%
CT House 115: Borer (D) 60.9% defeats Granfield (R) 35.6%

PA House 197: Vasquez (D) 80.4% defeats Honkala (G) 11.5%

GA State 32 (4/18): Jungle primary

CT House 68: Polleta (R) 78% defeats Esposito (D) 22%

OK House 28 (5/9): Barnes (D) v. Taylor (R)

[heatcharger]

The special election this Saturday in Delaware will determine the majority in the State Senate, with Dems having the edge 11-10 currently.

[windjammer]

It won't even be close. Democrats will at least win by 10 points.

[publicunofficial]

Apparently Biden is campaigning in the district for D's.

[KingSweden]

Are any of those CT races for R-held districts?

[The Other Castro]

Are any of those CT races for R-held districts?

Senate 32 was vacated by a Republican, but was won with 63-68% of the vote over the last three elections. The other two races are Safe Dem. All three are going to stay with their current parties.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Delaware Results will show up here: http://elections.delaware.gov/results/html/election.shtml

Polls close at 8 EST.

[The Other Castro]

Taniel ‏@Taniel
In DE special, the GOPer lodges a complaint that voters under 18 are voting, tho officials say state law allows it: http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/25/senate-district-10-race-draws-crowd-complaints/98375166/

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Polls have closed.

[Classic Conservative]

STATE SENATOR DISTRICT 10
1 of 16 Districts Reported
    Machine Votes   Absentee Votes   Total Votes   Percent Votes
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
STEPHANIE L HANSEN   215   12   227   48 . 81 %
REPUBLICAN PARTY
JOHN MARINO   230   4   234   50 . 32 %
LIBERTARIAN PARTY
JOSEPH D LANZENDORFER   4   0   4   0 . 87 %

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Hansen up 52-47 with 2/16 in.

[Classic Conservative]

Hansen up 52/46 with 7/16 in.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

FWIW, Marino is actually winning the Absentee vote, but is being overtaken by Hansen in the ED vote.

[Classic Conservative]

Now it's 50% in with Hansen having 51% and Marino having 48%

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Finally an absentee vote for the libertarian candidate comes in.

[Heisenberg]

Hansen widens her lead, 53.5-45.5 with 10/16 in.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

With 63% of the vote now in, I am ready to call the race for Hansen, who leads 53-45!

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

LOL, looks like this district is a duplicate of Virginia in how it counts votes. Now Hansen is up 56-43 with 75% in.

[Ronnie]

Wow, this race looks like a blowout!  I hope the result bodes well for Dem prospects in other special elections.

[Beet]

So the Democrats wins other than today are in the 70s, 80s, and 90s whereas the Republican wins are all in their 50s? A total metaphor for 2016. Even with a majority of the vote you can't win!

[heatcharger]

Waiting for that last precinct to come in, but I threw together a quick spreadsheet to see where Hansen outperformed Clinton (and vice versa):



Randomly yuuuge turnout in District 03-27 for some reason.

[Holmes]

Thanks heatcharger. Depending on how many votes come out of the last precinct, this special election might match or beat turnout for the district in 2010 (where the Democrat, Bethany Hall-Long, beat Marino by 3%).

Any info on precinct 03 27?

[heatcharger]

Thanks heatcharger. Depending on how many votes come out of the last precinct, this special election might match or beat turnout for the district in 2010 (where the Democrat, Bethany Hall-Long, beat Marino by 3%).

Any info on precinct 03 27?

No problem, and I'm not really sure what happened in 03-27.

Here's the updated precinct results:

[heatcharger]

On a side note, Hansen could be a good candidate to replace Carper in 2018.

[Gass3268]

Democrats have over performed Clinton in every special election since the election, but one