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« on: May 12, 2017, 03:02:03 AM »
« edited: September 01, 2018, 08:45:38 AM by Fmr. Pres. Griff »

2017 SPECIAL ELECTIONS:
(see next post for 2018 specials)

Average congressional swing, 2017: D+15.9
Average state legislative swing, 2017: D+9.1

Congressional:
 
TypeStateDistDateRunoff'16 Mar'16 P MarSpecial MarSwing (Avg)
HouseCA344/4/176/6/17(D vs D)D+73D+901D+17
HouseKS44/11/17R+31R+27R+7D+22
HouseMTA-L5/25/17R+16R+20R+6D+12
HouseGA64/18/176/20/17R+23R+2R+4D+9
HouseSC56/20/17R+21R+19R+3D+17
HouseUT311/7/17R+47R+24R+32D+4
SenateALA-L12/12/17R+28R+28D+2D+30

 
State Legislative
 
TypeStateDistDateRunoff'16 Mar'16 P MarSpecial MarSwing (Avg)
HouseAL7911/29/16N/AR+9No OppoN/A
SenateGA5412/13/161/10/17N/AR+58R+31D+27
SenateIA4512/27/17D+644D+16D+48D+8
SenateVA91/10/17N/AD+48D+83D+35
SenateVA221/10/17N/AR+15R+14D+1
HouseVA851/10/17N/AR+1R+6R+5
HouseIA891/31/17N/AD+11D+45D+34
HouseVA712/7/17D+78D+75D+80D+3
HouseMN32B2/14/17R+123R+29R+7D+14
SenateDE102/14/17R+24D+13D+17D+11
SenateCT22/28/17D+67D+69D+49R+19
SenateCT322/28/17R+36R+18R+10D+17
HouseCT1152/28/17D+38D+22D+28R+2
HousePA1973/21/17N/AD+92D+77R+15
HouseLA83/25/174/29/17N/AR+447(R vs R)N/A
HouseLA423/25/174/29/17N/AR+517(R vs R)N/A
HouseLA923/25/174/29/17N/AD+27R+745R+76
SenateGA324/18/175/16/17N/AR+13R+14R+1
HouseAL674/18/17N/AD+34D+906D+56
HouseCT74/25/17N/AD+83(D vs D)N/A
HouseCT684/25/17N/AR+33R+56R+23
SenateLA24/29/175/27/17(D vs D)D+237(D vs D)N/A
HouseOK285/9/17R+34R+50R+2D+40
SenateNY305/23/17D+91D+90D+89R+2
HouseNY95/23/17R+23R+37D+16D+46
HouseAL585/23/17N/ANo OppoN/A
HouseNHCRL 65/23/17R+14R+7D+4D+15
HouseNHHLB 445/23/17R+16R+9R+10D+3
SenateSC35/30/17N/AR+48No Oppo*N/A
HouseSC845/30/17N/AR+34R+21D+13
HouseTN956/15/17N/AR+39R+27D+12
HouseSC486/20/17N/AR+24R+22D+2
HouseSC706/20/17N/AD+43D+56D+13
SenateOK447/11/17R+104R+19D+9D+24
HouseOK757/11/17R+19R+22D+5D+26
HouseNHMCK 187/18/17D+12D+21D+56D+39
SenateNH167/25/17D+2D+0D+10D+9
SenateMAMDL 47/25/17N/AD+29D+768D+47
HouseMS1087/25/17R+544R+75R+609D+5
SenateWA458/1/1711/7/17R+54D+37D+92R+72
HouseIA828/8/17N/AR+21D+10D+31
SenateMO288/8/17N/AR+52R+40D+12
HouseMO508/8/17N/AR+21R+4D+17
SenateRI138/22/17D+104D+36D+20R+3
HouseOK469/12/17R+20R+10D+21D+36
SenateFL409/26/17R+10D+18D+40
HouseFL1169/26/17R+24D+4R+32R+22
HouseNHRCK 49/26/17R+40R+23D+2D+33
HouseSC319/26/17D+54D+48D+82D+31
HouseFL4410/10/17N/AD+6R+11R+17
HouseLA5810/14/17D+100D+43D+100D+27
HouseLA7710/14/17N/AR+58R+100R+21
SenateMABR/NF10/17/17N/AD+11D+4R+7
HouseNHSTR 1310/24/17N/AD+41D+64D+23
HouseGA411/7/17N/AR+30R+72R+42
HouseGA2611/7/17N/AR+59R+58R+1
HouseGA4211/7/17D+46D+42N/AN/A
HouseGA6011/7/17D+83D+83(D vs D)N/A
HouseGA8911/7/17N/AD+54(D vs D)N/A
HouseGA11711/7/17N/AR+3D+6D+9
HouseGA11911/7/17N/AR+7D+14D+21
SenateGA611/7/17R+4D+16(D vs D)N/A
SenateGA3911/7/17N/AD+73(D vs D)N/A
HouseME5611/7/17R+16R+22R+15D+4
HouseMABER 111/7/17N/AD+36D+52D+16
HouseMAESS 311/7/17N/AD+15D+7R+8
HouseMI111/7/17D+34D+52D+47D+4
HouseMI10911/7/17D+28R+4D+15D+3
SenateMO811/7/17N/AR+21R+8D+13
HouseMO2311/7/17N/AD+81D+79R+2
HouseMO15111/7/17N/AR+69R+43D+26
SenateMS1011/7/17N/AN/AN/A
HouseMS3811/7/17N/AN/AN/A
HouseMS5411/7/17N/AN/AN/A
SenateNY2611/7/17N/AD+73D+47R+26
HouseNY2711/7/17N/AD+34No OppoN/A
HouseNY7111/7/17D+85D+87No OppoN/A
HouseNHHLB 1511/7/17D+8R+10D+1D+2
HouseNHSUL 111/7/17D+18D+22D+32D+12
HouseSC11311/7/17N/AD+39D+62D+23
SenateWA711/7/17N/AR+34R+36R+2
SenateWA3111/7/17R+60R+9R+15D+20
SenateWA3711/7/17D+80D+81No OppoN/A
SenateWA4511/7/17R+6D+37D+10R+6
SenateWA4811/7/17D+30D+43D+386D+1
HouseWA711/7/17N/AR+34R+35R+1
HouseWA3111/7/17R+22R+9R+15D+1
HouseWA4811/7/17D+40D+43D+48D+6
SenateOK3711/14/17R+15R+40D+1D+27
SenateOK4511/14/17N/AR+40R+14D+26
HouseOK7611/14/17R+36R+35R+360
HouseCA5112/5/17D+73D+74N/AN/A
SenateMAWOR/MDL12/5/17N/AD+8R+4R+12
HousePA13312/5/17D+17D+10D+38D+25
SenateIA312/12/17N/AR+41R+9D+32
HouseFL5812/19/17R+17D+10R+21R+17
SenateMS4912/19/17N/AN/AN/A
SenateTN1712/19/17N/AR+48R+3D+45

1 Jungle primary margin between all combined Dem and all combined GOP candidates; runoff is Dem vs. Dem
2 Indicates runoff has not yet occurred; final result undetermined
3 Special was called because 2016 GOP candidate was ruled at the last-minute to be ineligible; using 2014 results for comparison
4 No regular election in 2016; using 2014 results for comparison
5 Democratic candidate on ballot but dropped out of race
6 Election was Dem versus independent
7 ED vote only; state does not record EV by precinct
8 Election was Dem versus Green
9 Election was GOP versus independent


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« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2017, 11:36:18 AM »
« Edited: September 19, 2018, 02:34:41 AM by Fmr. Pres. Griff »

2018 SPECIAL ELECTIONS:

Average congressional swing, 2018: D+17.5
Average state legislative swing, 2018: D+11.0

Congressional:
 
TypeStateDistDateRunoff'16 Mar'16 P MarSpecial MarSwing (Avg)
HousePA183/13/18N/AR+20D+0D+20
HouseAZ84/24/18R+37R+21R+5D+24
HouseTX276/30/18R+23R+24R+21D+3
HouseOH128/7/18R+37R+11R+1D+23

State Legislative
 
TypeStateDistDateRunoff'16 Mar'16 P MarSpecial MarSwing (Avg)
HouseSC561/2/18N/AR+32No OppoN/A
HouseCT151/9/18N/AD+65D vs DN/A
SenateGA171/9/18R+19R+15R+32R+15
HouseGA1111/9/18R+3D+3R+14R+14
HouseIA61/16/18R+31R+30R+11D+20
HouseSC281/16/18N/AR+30No OppoN/A
HouseSC991/16/18N/AR+23R+13D+10
SenateWI101/16/18R+26R+17D+10D+32
HouseWI581/16/18N/AR+38R+13D+25
HouseWI661/16/18D+62D+42No OppoN/A
HousePA351/23/18D+25D+17D+46D+25
HouseMO392/6/18N/AR+46R+29D+17
HouseMO972/6/18N/AR+28D+3D+31
HouseMO1292/6/18R+779R+64R+38D+33
HouseMO1442/6/18N/AR+59R+5D+54
SenateMN542/12/18D+6R+1D+4D+2
HouseMN23B2/12/18R+34R+27R+19D+12
HouseFL722/13/18R+16R+5D+7D+17
HouseGA1752/13/18N/AR+25R+53R+28
SenateOK272/13/18N/AR+73R+36D+37
HouseLA862/17/183/24/18N/AR+50(R vs R)N/A
HouseKY492/20/18R+1R+49D+37D+62
HouseMS602/20/183/13/18N/AN/AN/A
HouseCT1202/27/18D+25D+2D+2R+12
HouseKY892/27/18N/AR+62R+34D+28
HouseNHBEL 32/27/18R+8R+12D+7D+17
SenateMAESS 33/6/18N/AD+25N/AN/A
HouseOK513/6/18R+56R+65R+44D+17
SenateTN143/13/18R+49R+44R+43D+4
HouseLA933/24/18N/AD+75(D vs D)N/A
HouseAL213/27/18R+35R+22R+6D+23
HouseMABR 24/3/18N/AD+9D+4R+5
SenateRI84/3/18(D vs D)D+31D+45D+14
SenateFL314/10/18(D vs D)D+25D+50D+25
SenateIA254/10/18N/AR+26R+12D+14
SenateNY324/24/18D+94D+87D+86R+5
SenateNY374/24/18D+11D+22D+15R+2
HouseNY54/24/18R+29R+24R+26D+1
HouseNY104/24/18R+18D+8D+18D+23
HouseNY174/24/18R+25R+19R+27R+5
HouseNY394/24/18N/AD+67No OppoN/A
HouseNY744/24/18D+67D+74D+86D+17
HouseNY804/24/18D+74D+66D+63R+7
HouseNY1024/24/18N/AR+23R+1D+22
HouseNY1074/24/18N/AR+4R+2D+2
HouseNY1424/24/18N/AR+6R+5D+1
HouseFL395/1/18R+24R+19R+20D+2
HouseFL1145/1/18D+2D+14D+4R+4
SenateMASUF 15/1/18N/AD+65D+726D+7
HouseSC695/1/18N/AR+31No OppoN/A
HouseTX135/5/18R+57R+57R+60R+3
SenateAL265/15/18N/A
HouseAL45/15/18N/A
HousePA485/15/18N/AR+15R+11D+4
HousePA1785/15/18R+22R+3D+1D+14
SenateAR165/22/18N/A
SenateAR295/22/18N/A
HouseAR835/22/18N/A
HouseCT46/4/18D+74D+79D+88D+12
HouseCA396/5/18D vs DD+55D+42R+13
HouseCA456/5/18D+33D+40D+32R+5
HouseCA546/5/18D+63D+75D+77D+8
SenateMO176/5/18R+23R+4D+20D+34
SenateWI16/12/18R+234R+18D+3D+24
HouseWI426/12/18R+17R+14R+8D+8
HouseMS777/10/18N/AN/AN/A
SenateTX197/31/189/19/18D+15D+12
SenateCA328/7/18D+54D+39D+5R+17
SenateAR88/14/18N/AR vs LN/A
SenateTX199/18/18D+15D+12R+6R+20

1 Jungle primary margin between all combined Dem and all combined GOP candidates; runoff is Dem vs. Dem
2 Indicates runoff has not yet occurred; final result undetermined
3 Special was called because 2016 GOP candidate was ruled at the last-minute to be ineligible; using 2014 results for comparison
4 No regular election in 2016; using 2014 results for comparison
5 Democratic candidate on ballot but dropped out of race
6 Election was Dem versus independent
7 ED vote only; state does not record EV by precinct
8 Election was Dem versus Green
9 Election with Rep versus independent
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« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2017, 12:11:04 PM »

why is everybody in Oklahoma resigning?
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« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2017, 12:54:23 PM »

why is everybody in Oklahoma resigning?

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I'm honestly more intrigued by why these all have such varying dates for their respective special elections.
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« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2017, 04:37:11 PM »

State Legislative Special Elections:

November 29, 2016: Alabama House of Representatives District 79
-Republican  Joe Lovvorn won unopposed.

January 10, 2017: Virginia State Senate Districts 9 and 22, House of Delegates District 85
-Senate 9:
Democrat Jennifer McClellan - 91.3%
Libertarian   Corey Maurice Fauconier - 8.1%

-Senate 22:
Republican Mark Peake - 53.1%
Democrat Ryant Washington - 39.6%
Independent Joe Hines - 7.3%

-House 85:
Republican Rocky Holcomb - 52.8%
Democrat Cheryl Turpin - 47%

January 31, 2017: Iowa House of Representatives District 89
Democrat Monica Hosch Kurth - 72%
Republican Mike Gonzales - 27%

February 7, 2017: Virginia House of Delegates District 71
Democrat Jeff Bourne - 89.91%
Libertarian John Barclay - 6.62%
Independent Regie Ford - 3.27%

February 14, 2017: Minnesota House of Representatives District 32B
Republican Anne Neu - 53.2%
Democrat Laurie Warner - 46.7%

February 25, 2017: Delaware State Senate District 10
Democrat Stephanie Hansen - 58.1%
Republican John Marino - 40.8%
Libertarian Joseph Lanzendorfer - 1.1%

February 28, 2017: Connecticut State Senate Districts 2 and 32, State House District 115
-Senate 2:
Democrat Douglas McCrory - 74.1%
Republican Michael McDonald - 25.3%

-Senate 32:
Republican Eric C. Berthel - 53.9%
Democrat Greg Cava - 44.2%
Unaffiliated Dan Lynch - 1.9%

-House 115:
Democrat Dorinda Keenan Borer - 61%
Republican Edward Granfield - 39%

March 21, 2017: Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 197
Democrat Emilio Vazquez (Write-in) - 80.4%
Green Cheri Honkala (Write-in) - 11.5%
Republican Lucinda Little - 8.1%

March 25/April 29, 2017: Louisiana House of Representatives District 8, 42, 92
-House 8: Republican Raymond Crews defeated another Republican Robbie Gatti Jr.
-House 42: Republican John Stefanski defeated another Republican Jay Suire
-House 92:
Republican Joe Stagni - 73.7%
Republican Gisela Chevalier - 13.3%
Democrat Chuck Toney - 13%

https://ballotpedia.org/State_legislative_special_elections,_2017
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« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2017, 06:58:46 PM »

Griff, if you want to keep that fancy table updated, I'll sticky this for awhile.
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« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2017, 09:29:40 PM »

The rest of the legislative special elections:

April 18, 2017: Alabama House District 67
Democrat Prince Chestnut - 94.9%
Independent Toby Gorden - 5.1%

April 25, 2017: Connecticut House of Representatives Districts 7 and 68
-House 7:
Working Families Joshua Malik Hall - 41.1% (Caucuses as a Democrat)
Democrat Rickey Pinckney Sr. - 33.7%
Independent Kenneth P. Green - 24.1%

-House 68:
Republican Joe Polletta - 78.1%
Democrat Louis Esposito - 21.9%

April 29/May 27, 2017: Louisiana State Senate District 2 (Runoff yet to occur)
Democrat Warren Harang III (advanced to runoff) - 26.5%
Democrat Edward "Ed" Price (advanced to runoff) - 22.1%
Other Democrats Combined - 38.5%
Republican   Wayne Brigalia - 7%

May 23, 2017:
-Alabama House of Representatives District 58   
-New Hampshire House of Representatives Districts Carroll 6 and Hillsborough 44
-New York State Senate District 30 and State Assembly District 9

May 30, 2017: South Carolina State Senate District 3 and House District 84

June 15, 2017: Tennessee House of Representatives District 95

June 20, 2017: South Carolina House of Representatives Districts 48 and 70

July 18, 2017: New Hampshire House of Representatives District Merrimack 18

July 25, 2017:
-New Hampshire State Senate District 16
-Massachusetts State Senate Fourth Middlesex District

August 8, 2017: Missouri State Senate District 28 and House District 50

August 22, 2017: Rhode Island State Senate District 13

September 12, 2017: Oklahoma State Senate District 44

September 26, 2017: Florida State Senate District 40

November 7, 2017:
-Michigan House of Representatives District 1
-Washington State Senate Districts 31, 37, 45, 48 and House Districts 7, 31, 48
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« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2017, 04:25:05 AM »


Wow, thanks! That certainly makes the process easier, though I imagine I'll be working for awhile on some of these. Looks like a lot of these special elections are non-events, though.

Griff, if you want to keep that fancy table updated, I'll sticky this for awhile.

OK, great!
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« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2017, 09:38:59 AM »

With the exception of a few outstanding races, I've managed to get all of the data added for all specials that have occurred so far. I do still need to add many of the upcoming state legislative specials to the list when I get time. I'm worried that I'm going to hit the 11000-character limit pretty soon with all of this coding, though.

I'll also need to go back and correct a discrepancy between D vs D/R vs R races in CA/LA where there are runoffs; I opted to use the jungle primary in the case of CA but forgot to do so this morning when looking through Castro's info provided for LA.
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« Reply #9 on: May 13, 2017, 12:54:25 PM »

OK, I've got all of those announced elections added finally...and I've already had to trim my code once to be under the character limit.

*sigh*

I may have to convert this to an image before long, especially as I add more 2016 results/color-code them. I wish I had thought to make an extra reply at the beginning.
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« Reply #10 on: May 13, 2017, 01:32:07 PM »

OK, I've got all of those announced elections added finally...and I've already had to trim my code once to be under the character limit.

*sigh*

I may have to convert this to an image before long, especially as I add more 2016 results/color-code them. I wish I had thought to make an extra reply at the beginning.

If McGovernForPrez and MT Treasurer are ok with it, I (or they) could delete their 2 posts following your main post, and you could convert your 2nd post in this thread into a "2nd page" for your table?
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« Reply #11 on: May 13, 2017, 01:48:46 PM »

OK, I've got all of those announced elections added finally...and I've already had to trim my code once to be under the character limit.

*sigh*

I may have to convert this to an image before long, especially as I add more 2016 results/color-code them. I wish I had thought to make an extra reply at the beginning.

If McGovernForPrez and MT Treasurer are ok with it, I (or they) could delete their 2 posts following your main post, and you could convert your 2nd post in this thread into a "2nd page" for your table?

That may be needed soon - I'm at 10700 characters right now so once I add colors for a few more results it'll be over the limit once again.
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« Reply #12 on: May 13, 2017, 02:00:21 PM »

Aaugh, I know I've seen someone—possibly a Daily Kos affiliate—who is keeping a public spreadsheet of all special election results and the swing from Trump/Clinton. I have not been able to find it.
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« Reply #13 on: May 14, 2017, 08:34:29 PM »

Griffin - could we do a running average of the swing for both congressional / federal elections and the state elections? Enten has called them a good predictor of the possible swing in 2018.
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« Reply #14 on: May 16, 2017, 10:02:14 AM »

Griffin - could we do a running average of the swing for both congressional / federal elections and the state elections? Enten has called them a good predictor of the possible swing in 2018.

Which elections specifically did you have in mind? I've been lucky thus far to find presidential margins for most of these districts already compiled, but it's a lot of work to crunch precinct-by-precinct for each district across multiple districts.

I had seen somewhere on 538 where they mentioned that an average of the past two presidential elections was the best determination of how a district would vote in a special.
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« Reply #15 on: May 16, 2017, 01:27:20 PM »

Aaugh, I know I've seen someone—possibly a Daily Kos affiliate—who is keeping a public spreadsheet of all special election results and the swing from Trump/Clinton. I have not been able to find it.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1C2MVeM2K7WgqmJw5RCQbWyTo2u73CX1pI8zw_G-7BJo/edit#gid=0
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« Reply #16 on: May 16, 2017, 09:13:02 PM »

GA SD32 final results added.
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« Reply #17 on: May 16, 2017, 09:18:50 PM »

Democrats keeping their margins in suburban Sun Belt is good. Now they need to expand them.
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« Reply #18 on: May 16, 2017, 10:16:30 PM »

Awesome job Griffin! By the way, it looks like "Congressional:" and "State Legislative" are making the "Type" column much bigger than it needs to be while forcing other columns into spaces that are clearly too small ("Runoff" for the state legislative races, for example). If you removed them from the charts themselves it might ease up on the space.

Alternatively, I have seen several threads that were much wider than most. Even though I'm pretty sure it's an error, it could be helpful for making a better chart.

(Also, the first two comments are both yours. You don't have to worry about the character limit for a while.)
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« Reply #19 on: May 16, 2017, 10:21:22 PM »

Awesome job Griffin! By the way, it looks like "Congressional:" and "State Legislative" are making the "Type" column much bigger than it needs to be while forcing other columns into spaces that are clearly too small ("Runoff" for the state legislative races, for example). If you removed them from the charts themselves it might ease up on the space.

Alternatively, I have seen several threads that were much wider than most. Even though I'm pretty sure it's an error, it could be helpful for making a better chart.

(Also, the first two comments are both yours. You don't have to worry about the character limit for a while.)

Thanks for the tip on that! Fixed.

As far as maximum width, the only way (to my knowledge) to stretch it beyond the normal parameters is to either a) use a large image (which squeezes a bit more room out of it) or b) pasting a very long link, which will stretch the page as long as the link is on one line.
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« Reply #20 on: May 23, 2017, 11:00:49 PM »

Can't wait to update the thread with tonight's results! I'll have it sorted through in just a couple of hours when I'm done with my RL work.
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« Reply #21 on: May 23, 2017, 11:05:13 PM »

I red on Reddit that Dems were able to win one of the ones in NH for the first time in a long time. Also, one of the NY ones.

Also, just noticing now, why did the Democrat drop out of the race in LA-92?
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« Reply #22 on: May 23, 2017, 11:07:07 PM »

I red on Reddit that Dems were able to win one of the ones in NH for the first time in a long time. Also, one of the NY ones.

Also, just noticing now, why did the Democrat drop out of the race in LA-92?

It sounds like at least part of that NY district might never had had a Democrat before. I know that Long Island was pretty Republican from about 1917-2001. The reason why it swung Republican in 1917 was Irish mad at Wilson for entering WW1 on the side of the UK.
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« Reply #23 on: May 23, 2017, 11:34:42 PM »
« Edited: May 24, 2017, 12:11:00 AM by Sorenroy »

State Legislative

TypeStateDistDateRunoff'16 Mar'16 P MarSpecial MarSwing (Avg)
SenateNY305/23/17D+91D+90D+89
HouseNY95/23/17R+23R+37D+16
HouseAL585/23/17No Oppo
HouseNHCRL 65/23/17R+7D+4
HouseNHHLB 445/23/17R+10

NY:
http://nyenr.elections.state.ny.us/home.aspx
https://ballotpedia.org/New_York_State_Senate_District_30
https://ballotpedia.org/New_York_State_Assembly_District_9
By the way, I used the combined numbers for each candidate. Apparently Christine Pellegrino appeared as a "DEM" and "WOR", while Thomas A. Gargiulo appeared as a "REP", "CON", and "IND". I don't know enough about NY voting to know how that worked out on the ballots.

AL:
https://ballotpedia.org/Alabama_House_of_Representatives_District_58
Apparently, because no other candidates ran, the winner of the Democratic primary, Rolanda Hollis, has already won the seat.

NH:
https://ballotpedia.org/New_Hampshire_House_of_Representatives_District_Carroll_6
https://ballotpedia.org/New_Hampshire_House_of_Representatives_District_Hillsborough_44
http://sos.nh.gov/201718SpecElect.aspx
It does not look like the NH SOS has their results up yet.
http://www.wmur.com/article/in-nh-house-special-elections-democrat-pulls-off-upset-in-wolfeboro-republican-wins-hillsborough-county-seat/9918480

Couldn't wait, hope this helps! I'll do more if I can. Not sure how you are doing swings. When I went up to see, I noticed that your swing for DE-11 is off. Also, I'm working off the assumption that "'16 P Mar" means 2016 Presidential Margin.
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« Reply #24 on: May 24, 2017, 04:45:10 AM »

^^^ Thanks for the help! I went ahead and filled in the rest save for AL-58's presidential margin; I also fixed the DE Senate average.

BTW, what I do is simply round up for the average and then count the swing from there. So R+2 & D+13 = D+11; divided by 2 D+5.5 -> D+6.
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