Janice Hahn wins CA36 "open seat" special election!

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LA City Council Member Janice Hahn (D) won yesterday's contentious CA36 special election for Congress by 54.6-45.4%. She defeated Graig Huey (R) and replaces Jane Harman, who resigned in January to become President of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Women have won both "open seat" Special Elections so far in 2011 -- picking up an additional seat for women, and bringing the current total back to the 11/2008 figure of 73 voting women members (16.8%) of Congress.

On September 13th, there will be another special election to replace Dean Heller in NV02; by all accounts 3 women are in the mix. On that same day, there will be an election in NY09 to replace Anthony Weiner. Local party leaders chose the candidates, and there will be no women on the ballot.

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