The local special election sparking intrigue in Donald Trump’s backyard - POLITICO

Florida Democrats are trying to flip the Palm Beach state House district that includes Mar-a-Lago this month, in a race that could test President Donald Trump's Sunshine State influence and symbolically hit him on his home turf. 

A Democratic win on March 24 in the District 87 special election would embolden Florida's beleaguered Democratic Party ahead of the midterms and add to a string of recent nationwide victories and overperformances. After a slew of losses in recent cycles, Florida Democrats in particular have tried to show they can return the state to swing status and end the Legislature's GOP supermajority in November...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/13/florida-special-election-palm-beach-00826611 

 

Democrats deliver ‘stunning’ flip in New Hampshire special election, latest in series of 28 upsets

"Tuesdays are becoming a headache for state Republicans across the country as they suffer one stunning defeat after another," she said in statement. "These wins aren't a flash in a pan – together, they tell an undeniable story of Democratic momentum as voters reject Republicans and blame them for soaring costs."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/11/democrat-new-hampshire-bobbi-boudman

 

Adelita Grijalva wins Arizona 7th special election to narrow GOP majority - The Washington Post

Adelita Grijalva is the projected winner of the race to fill her father's congressional seat, trimming a Republican House majority that was already historically small...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/23/arizona-special-election-7th-district-adelita-grijalva/

Democrats score MASSIVE surprise win

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r62ysayGY_0

Win for reproductive rights as Ohio voters reject effort to make it harder to amend state constitution

The rejection is a major win for the One Person, One Vote campaign, a broad coalition of good-government, labor and environmental groups that aggressively campaigned across the state urging people to reject the amendment. The contest was expected to be a low-turnout midsummer affair, but turnout actually surged during the election. The result is also a blow to Richard Uihlein, a GOP megadonor, who spent millions trying to get the amendment to pass...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/08/ohio-issue-1-rejected-state-constitution

Takeaways after Ohio's Issue 1 fails in the special election - The Washington Post

Ohio voters on Tuesday rejected a much-watched ballot measure that could have helped Republicans restrict abortion rights. Red-leaning Ohio becomes the latest in a succession of states to deliver a setback to antiabortion forces after Roe v. Wade was overturned last year...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/08/ohio-issue-1-fails-election-takeaways/

Trump May Have Let Slip Details Of His Election Scheme As He Attacked Georgia Governor | HuffPost

…Trump during his rally in Perry, Georgia, on Saturday twice stated that he had asked Kemp to call a "special election" — a request that would mesh with some of his advisers' recommendations to him to declare martial law in a handful of states he narrowly lost and to force them to hold new elections…

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-georgia-investigation_n_6154cee4e4b008640eafab33

Trump takes two punches from GOP | TheHill

…Trump's preferred candidate in a special House election in Texas lost on Tuesday to another Republican who was likely boosted by some protest votes against the former president. And on Wednesday, 17 Senate Republicans voted to advance a bipartisan infrastructure deal that Trump spent weeks railing against…https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/565499-trump-takes-two-punches-from-gop

Democrats Keep Getting Good News Out of a State That Crushed Their Spirits in 2016 - Slate

Trump pulled off the upset in Wisconsin in 2016, but Democrats are turning the tables in 2018. ....
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/democrats-win-wisconsin-special-election-caleb-frostman-beats-andre-jacque-in-first-senate-district.html

Judge Tells Scott Walker He Can't Block Special Elections in Wisconsin - Mother Jones

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker must hold special elections this spring to fill two vacant state legislative seats, a judge ruled Thursday. ....
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/judge-tells-scott-walker-he-cant-block-special-elections-in-wisconsin/

Republicans are reaping the whirlwind - Vox

They've synthesized the worst of Trump and the worst of the GOP establishment. ....
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/14/17118858/pa-18-results-conor-lamb

It’s official: Democrat Conor Lamb wins Pennsylvania special election in major upset - Vox

Trump won this district by 20 points in 2016. For him, this was personal. ....
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/14/17109448/pennsylvania-special-election-conor-lamb-defeats-rick-saccone

Donald Trump wrongly claims Doug Jones wants to ‘raise taxes to the sky’ | PolitiFact

President Donald Trump waded into Alabama’s Senate race to blast Democratic challenger Doug Jones as a tax-happy puppet of the liberal establishment. Rather than fully embrace the controversial Republican nominee Roy Moore, who's embroiled in allegations of sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old girl and several other teenagers, Trump has supported Moore by bashing his opponent ahead of the Dec. 12 special election......
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/nov/28/donald-trump/donald-trump-falsely-claims-doug-jones-wants-raise/

Democrats have won 6 GOP-held seats in 2017. Republicans have won 0 Democratic seats. -- CNN

On Tuesday night, Democrats flipped two Republican-held state legislative seats — one in Oklahoma, one in New Hampshire — that Donald Trump carried in the 2016 election. ....
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/13/politics/special-elections-oklahoma-new-hampshire/index.html