Tag: IA-HD90

11:06PM: It’s over – Hanson wins! Congratulations! Final tally: 3,932 to 3,825. Burgmeier actually carried Wapello by four votes, but it wasn’t enough. Anyhow, this is great news… for John McCain!

10:55PM: Pass the dutchie ‘pon the lef’ han’ side… looks like our friends at the Wapello County Board of Elections are taking a bit of a ganja break.

10:38PM: The first two precincts in Wapello have come in, and they are looking good for Hanson – he leads there 339-178. Burgmeier would need to carry those last six precincts by an 18-point margin to eke out a win.

10:34PM: All of the outstanding precincts are in Wapello Co., which Obama won with 55% of the vote last fall.

10:33PM: Much closer now – 20 of 28 precincts, and Hanson’s lead is just 3,335 to 3,224.

10:22PM: Polls are closed in Iowa, and with a quarter of precincts reporting (all from Jefferson Co.), Dem Carl Hanson has a lead of 2,050 to 1,441.

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James provided some background on both of tonight’s special elections in this earlier post. Polls close in Iowa at 10pm Eastern time, and in California at 11pm. UPDATE: Via folks in comments, Gov. Schwarzenegger has ordered that results be held until 10pm Pacific (1am Eastern) so that firefighters from the district who are fighting fires in Southern California can have extra time to vote.

Results: IA SoS | CA SoS

If you have other results links, please post `em in comments. Also, as always, you can use this thread to make predictions.

Just a quick reminder to all of our readers that two competitive special elections will be held tonight. In California’s 10th CD, multiple candidates from all parties will face off for the right to succeed Ellen Tauscher in the House. While Tauscher’s seat has a D+11 PVI, the NRCC has signaled some interest in the race, lifting attorney David Harmer to “On The Radar” status in its recently-relaunched “Young Guns” program — so it’ll be interesting to see how big of a share the GOP vote is tomorrow. Recent polling suggests that Lt. Gov. John Garamendi (D) and Harmer are the favorites to advance to the next round of voting, so other Democrats, like state Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, will have to hope for a lopsided turnout effort in order to grab an upset.

Further down the ballot and a couple time zones away, there will also be an open state House seat up for grabs. It’s another Dem-held seat, with the vacancy created when Tom Vilsack tapped farmer and sitting Rep. John Whitaker to head the Farm Service Agency in Iowa. Democrats hold a plurality of the district’s voters in terms of registration, but the GOP is hoping to entice enough conservative Democrats over to their side — aided in part by a massive effort by the National Organization for Marriage to paint the election as a referendum on same-sex marriage. The Iowa Independent and Governing.com’s Ballot Box both have comprehensive summaries of the race, and the indefatigable desmoinesdem of Bleeding Heartland fame has all the latest dope on the race here and here.

As usual, we’ll have results links for you to follow as polls close, and will post occasional updates on the latest score as the votes are counted.