Thought I'd be the first to break it. Jackie Spiers needed 50% +1 in today's special election to claim Tom Lantos's old seat in CA-12 without a runoff election. This district is heavily Democratic and encompasses part of San Francisco and San Mateo counties.
She got it.
San Mateo County:
JACKIE SPEIER (DEM) 41,244 79.6%
GREG CONLON (REP) 4,953 9.6%
MIKE MOLONEY (REP) 2,763 5.3%
MICHELLE T. MCMURRY (DEM) 1,958 3.8%
BARRY HERMANSON (GRN) 876 1.7%
San Francisco County:
DEM - JACKIE SPEIER 12,000 71.05%
DEM - MICHELLE T. MCMURRY 1,791 10.60%
REP - GREG CONLON 1,222 7.24%
REP - MIKE MOLONEY 1,059 6.27%
GRN - BARRY HERMANSON 769 4.55%
WRITE-IN 49 0.29%
Total 16,890 100.00%
San Francisco includes absentee & in-precinct ballots. San Mateo includes both precinct and absentee.
Say hello to California's newest US House Representative!!
As NRafter530 pointed out below: The whole San Mateo Peninsula is now represented by women, starting with Nancy Pelosi on down!!