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Labour crashed from 46 to 11% in a key special election, losing a ballot in a left-wing heartland town for the first time in a century.

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Japan is preparing for a special election in October to replace outgoing Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru, who announced his resignation after less than a year in office on Sunday.

Ex-Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg’s first PAC-backed candidate got trounced in a special election in Arizona Tuesday night. 

Karina Lipsman, a Soviet refugee, national security expert, and Republican candidate in the special election for Virginia’s 11th Congressional District, warned of “communism” rising in the United States and advocated for legal immigration on the latest episode of Breitbart News Saturday.

Florida state Sen. Randy Fine (R-FL) is projected to win the special election for Florida’s 6th Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ.

“Victory is in reach” for Republicans in Florida’s 6th Congressional District, Florida state Sen. Randy Fine said in a message on Election Day.

Democrats have outspent Republicans six to one in the special election for Florida’s 1st Congressional District, Trump-endorsed candidate Jimmy Patronis told Breitbart News Daily on the day of the big race.

Polling suggests that Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party could win a by-election triggered by a Labour MP punching a constituent in the face.

The Florida Department of State announced special election dates for Sunshine State residents to replace Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) and former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL).

Ohio State Sen. Michael Rulli (R) won his race over the Democrat opponent Michael Kripchak on Tuesday evening.

California State Rep. Vince Fong (R) won a special election on Tuesday to fill former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R) seat and finish his term, which runs until January.

Former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) slammed the New York GOP congressional delegation in a text after Democrat Tom Suozzi won Santos’s old seat.

As the saying goes, a win is a win in an election, but the margin by which former Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) won back his old seat should leave Democrats wondering if they have a major problem headed into November.

Former Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) has won the special election for New York’s Third Congressional District in a blow to House Republicans’ already thin majority.

Republican Michael Murphy won against Democrat opponent Edith Tucker in the special election for New Hampshire State House Coos County 6 on Tuesday, according to Decision Desk HQ projections.

A pair of Virginia Republicans protected two seats in the state legislature on Tuesday night in blowouts against Democrats.

MA State Rep. Peter Durant scored a victory Tuesday night in a special election for a state Senate seat in the Worcester-Hampshire district.

The failure of Issue 1 in the Ohio special election August 8 was the result of a GOP fumble, combined with millions in funding from left-wing dark money groups, according a leading pro-life organization.

President Joe Biden’s pro-abortion White House is celebrating the failure of a ballot measure called Issue 1 in the Ohio special election.

In the Ohio special election on Tuesday night, Issue 1 — a measure that would have raised the threshold to pass amendments to the state constitution from 50 percent plus one to 60 percent — failed, with media outlets calling the election less than two hours after polls closed.

The passage of Issue 1 has extra significance, because if Ohioans vote “yes” and Issue 1 passes by a simple majority then a radical abortion amendment will likely have a harder time passing in November.

A pro-parent, pro-life group launched a $5.5 million ad buy on Tuesday ahead of the August 8 special election in Ohio that will determine how the state Constitution can be altered moving forward. 

A pro-parent group called Protect Women Ohio (PWO) released an advertisement on Wednesday slamming the coalition of far-left organizations fighting against Issue 1, a ballot initiative set to be voted on in the August  special election that would raise the threshold to pass amendments to the state constitution from 50 percent to 60 percent.

Gabe Amo, a special assistant to President Joe Biden, resigned from his post at the White House last week to ready a special election run for a Rhode Island congressional seat, sources familiar with the situation told the Washington Post.

Democrat state representatives switching parties and one special election over the last month gave Republicans three new supermajorities in state legislatures, bringing the total to 25 nationwide.

Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) plans to resign from Congress in June to become the president and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation. His plans will inevitably set up an off-year special election to fill the seat.

Democrat Mary Peltola defeated former U.S. vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin (R) in Alaska’s special election to fill its lone vacant congressional seat, despite not receiving more than 50 percent of the initial vote.

Republican Joe Sempolinski has been heralded as the projected winner in the special election for New York’s 23rd congressional district.

Marc Molinaro, the Republican candidate for New York’s 19th Congressional District special election on Tuesday, told Breitbart News Saturday that he is “fighting back against high costs, over-regulation, crime on the rise, and the government that’s too big.”

Conservatives are “doomed” because law-abiding, respectable middle-England now sees Boris Johnson as dishonest, not a japester, Farage said.

The Liberals have flipped one of the strongest Conservative seats in the country, prompting the Tory chairman to tender his resignation.

Texas Democrat Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, who’s running against Republican Rep. Mayra Flores — the first Mexican-born woman elected to Congress — in November, resorted to “sexist” and “xenophobic” attacks against the newly sworn-in incumbent.

Rep. Marwayne Mullen (R-OK) said the Biden administration is deliberately harming the economy to justify expansion of government power.

Republican House candidate Mayra Flores successfully flipped Texas’s 34th Congressional District —  a historic Democrat stronghold and majority Hispanic district — in Tuesday night’s special election. Her win reflects what many consider to be a conservative awakening among Latino voters — a phenomenon both Breitbart News border reporter Ildefonso Ortiz and international news editor Frances Martel predicted in 2020.

Republican House candidate Mayra Flores fliped Texas’s historically Democrat-held Thirty-fourth Congressional District to red in Tuesday night’s special election.

Democrats are growing concerned about their South Texas problem as Hispanic voters have fled to the Republican Party.