Special elections
Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey and new Liberal Democrat MP for Chesham and Amersham Sarah Green during a victory rally at Chesham Youth Centre in Chesham, England, Friday June 18, 2021, after Sarah Green won the Chesham and Amersham by-election. In a surprising result, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party was easily defeated in a special election for a seat it has held onto for decades. (Steve Parsons/PA via AP)
UK's Conservatives suffer defeat in 'blue wall' seat

By Pan Pylas Jun. 18, 2021 11:19 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Iowa

By The Associated Press Jun. 14, 2021 10:00 AM EDT
Des Moines Register. June 11, 2021. Editorial: Stop messing around with congressional bipartisanship and move on infrastructure ...

Tennessee sets election to fill seat after lawmaker's death

Jun. 04, 2021 07:16 AM EDT
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Officials have set a special election to replace an eastern Tennessee state lawmaker who died after a fight with pancreatic cancer. ...

Democratic candidate Melanie Stansbury, left, hugs her mother, Sunny Birklund, at the Hotel Albuquerque as results come in for the New Mexico 1st Congressional District special election to fill former U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland's seat, Tuesday, June 1, 2021, in Albuquerque, N.M. Haaland resigned her seat to become United States Secretary of the Interior. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)
Democrats seek momentum in lopsided US House victory

By Morgan Lee And Susan Montoya Bryan Jun. 02, 2021 03:25 PM EDT

Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh, right, meets with Doug Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, at the Bread and Butter Kitchen, in Annapolis, Md., on Tuesday, May 18, 2021. (Paul W. Gillespie/The Baltimore Sun via AP)
Doug Emhoff campaigns with Democrat in New Mexico contest

By Alexandra Jaffe And Susan Montoya Bryan May. 27, 2021 08:33 PM EDT

Texas runoff election for US House seat set for July 27

May. 12, 2021 05:52 PM EDT
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — A July 27 special election runoff was set Wednesday between two Republicans for a North Texas district's vacant U.S. House seat. ...

People arrive to vote at a polling station in Glasgow, Scotland, Thursday May 6, 2021. Scots are heading to the polls to elect the next Scottish Government - though the coronavirus pandemic means it could be more than 48 hours before all the results are counted. (Jane Barlow/PA via AP)
Super Thursday: Britons vote in a bumper crop of elections

By Pan Pylas May. 06, 2021 06:59 AM EDT

Sign supporting various candidates sit outside an early voting location Tuesday, April 27, 2021, in Mansfield, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
House runoff in Texas set between GOP's Wright, Ellzey

May. 02, 2021 04:03 PM EDT

Volunteer Al Green looks at his phone as he takes a break from holding a sign supporting his candidate in a local election outside an early voting location Tuesday, April 27, 2021, in Mansfield, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Republican Susan Wright makes US House runoff in Texas

By Paul J. Weber May. 01, 2021 10:58 PM EDT

Texas congressional candidate Michael Wood, left, smiles as he listens to potential voter Yvette Williams outside an early voting location Tuesday, April 27, 2021, in Mansfield, Texas. Wood is considered the anti-Trump Republican Texas congressional candidate that Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger has endorsed in the May 1st special election for the 6th Congressional District. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Texas voters head back to polls after congressman's death

By Paul J. Weber Apr. 30, 2021 10:55 PM EDT

Ohio legislative leaders may advance map-making date changes

By Julie Carr Smyth Apr. 27, 2021 05:14 PM EDT
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's legislative leaders are negotiating a potentially fast-moving constitutional amendment that would allow September deadlines for...

Trump backs GOP's Susan Wright in Texas special election

Apr. 26, 2021 04:55 PM EDT
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Monday gave his endorsement in a Texas special congressional election to Republican Susan Wright, the...

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga takes off his face mask before speaking to reporters at his office in Tokyo Monday, April 26, 2021. His ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Sunday lost all three parliamentary by-elections, a blow to Suga’s grip on power ahead of national elections later this year. Suga said Monday he seriously takes the results seen to reflect voter discontent with his government's coronavirus handling as well as scandals involving his party. (Yuta Omori/Kyodo News via AP)
Japan's ruling party loses 3 key elections in blow to Suga

By Mari Yamaguchi Apr. 26, 2021 12:56 AM EDT

Republican state Sen. Mark Moores debates legislation in the final hours of a 60-day legislative session on Saturday, March 20, 2021 in Santa Fe, N.M.. The Democrat-led Legislature has charted an economic exit from the COVID-19 pandemic and checked off progressive priorities on policing reforms, abortion rights, medical aid in dying and child poverty. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
Pandemic fuels business and politics for GOP nominee

By Morgan Lee Apr. 16, 2021 05:08 PM EDT

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, participates in a mock swearing-in ceremony for Rep. Julia Letlow, R-La., center, and her two children Jeremiah, 3, and Jacqueline, 1, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Letlow easily won a special election for the northeast Louisiana-based U.S. House seat that her husband, Luke, couldn't fill because of his death from complications related to COVID-19. Luke's father, Johnny Letlow, holds Luke's bible. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Louisiana congresswoman takes office, replacing late husband

By Alan Fram Apr. 14, 2021 02:31 PM EDT

House speaker wants to revisit court ruling on remote access

Apr. 14, 2021 02:14 PM EDT
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire's House Speaker wants to revisit a decision by an appeals court to vacate a judge's ruling that upheld his refusal to...

This undated photo provided by Melanie for New Mexico shows Melanie Stansbury. Stansbury's campaign points out that she co-sponsored a 2020 bill to roll back state taxes on Social Security benefits. The bill was sidelined without a House or Senate floor vote in the Democrat-led Legislature. (Melanie for New Mexico via AP)
Energy, voting rights loom in congressional special election

By Morgan Lee Apr. 13, 2021 08:00 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Florida

By The Associated Press Apr. 07, 2021 05:57 PM EDT
Recent editorials from Florida newspapers: ___ Aril 7 The South Florida Sun Sentinel on honoring...

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2019 file photo, Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., speaks during a House Rules Committee hearing on the impeachment against President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington. Hastings, the longtime Congressman from Florida has died after a two-year fight with pancreatic cancer. The Palm Beach County Democrat died Tuesday, April 6, 2021, according to his chief of staff, Lale M. Morrison. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
US Rep. Alcee Hastings dies at 84; was impeached as judge

By Matt Sedensky And Terry Spencer Apr. 06, 2021 10:30 AM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2021, file photo, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, front left, greets resident Israel Ortiz after Newsom visited a mobile vaccination site at Ramona Gardens Recreation Center in Los Angeles. As Newsom faces a likely recall, Latino advocates say engaging their communities and providing a more robust response to the pandemic could be keys to his survival. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
In likely California recall, energizing Latino voters is key

By Kathleen Ronayne Mar. 26, 2021 03:02 PM EDT