In New Hampshire, Democrat Bobbi Boudman “flipped a Republican-held seat in the state House in a special election on Tuesday night,” notes a politics website:
Boudman, a financial analyst, defeated Republican Dale Fincher, a Christian nonprofit speaker and investment firm founder, by a 52-48 margin to win Carroll County’s 7th District.
The seat became vacant last year when state Rep. Glenn Cordelli gave it up after reportedly moving out of state. Cordelli had previously beaten Boudman twice in a row, first by a 56-44 margin in 2022, then by a wider 57-43 spread two years later.
Donald Trump also carried the district, which includes the towns of Ossipee, Tuftonboro, and Wolfeboro, by a 54-45 margin. Ordinarily, that might have been enough to keep the seat red, but [not this year].
Republicans currently control New Hampshire’s House of Representatives by a 214-to-178 margin. But this special election result suggests they may lose control of the House after the next general election.
This was the tenth straight special election flip from Republican to Democrat in state legislatures. However, there was a rare Republican gain in Tuesday’s special election for a seat on the Prince William County Board of Supervisors, where Republican Jeannie LaCroix picked up a previously Democratic-held seat in that county, one of Virginia’s most populous counties. LaCroix won the special election primarily because her Democratic opponent lost black and Jewish votes to a competing Democratic write-in candidate, after his racially-charged and bigoted tweets from a decade ago were publicized. Her Democratic opponent attempted to argue that as a Muslim American, he has empathy for fellow members of minority groups, but this apparently did not assuage anger over his tweets from a decade ago, when he used the N word, and said misogynist and anti-semitic things.
