Washington (AP) – The special elections on Tuesday to replace the Republican Republican in Florida will take place in two of the state’s GOP strongholds, but the Democrats hope that robust donations in both districts are an indicator that the races were more than the last elections five months ago.
Control over the US house is not at stake, but the result of the special elections could give the Republicans of the Congress a breath of breath in the closely divided chamber. The Republicans have 218 seats that is required for a majority in a fully seated house. Democrats hold 213 seats with two more free sites, most recently by democratic legislators.
In the 1st congress district, Republicans Jimmy Patronis and the Democrat Gay Valimont are considered a replacement for Gaetz. Patronis is the Chief Financial Officer of the state. He received the confirmation of President Donald Trump in the overcrowded 10-person elementary school. Valimont is a weapon control activist. In November, she asked Gaetz for the seat and received 34% of the votes.
In the senior 6th congress district of Waltz, the candidates of the Republican Senator Randy Fine and the Democrat Josh Weil, a pedagogical educator in the Oscola district. Fine represents a Senate district of the country based in Brevard County, which is located outside the borders of the US home seat in Palm Coast, from which he hopes to fill. He won three-way area code with Trump’s advocacy on January 28th.
The 1st congress district borders Alabama on the golf coast in the westernmost part of the Florida Panhandle. It houses both the pensacola and the Eglin Air Force Base. The district is one of the most reliable republican areas of the state. Trump received around 68% of the district votes in 2024 and exceeded the 66% Gaetz, which was preserved in its re -election offer.
The four counties, from which the 1st district is out of the past, have voted almost constantly for Republican presidential candidates in the past 60 years. Only Walton County has once decided a democrat since 1960, although all four voted for the candidate George Wallace, who had been from the Democrat, voted in 1968. Today is the part of the Walton County, which falls into the 1st district, the most reliable republican of the four counties. Escambia is the least Republican in comparison, although Trump and Gaetz still received 59% or 57% of the district’s votes.
On the other side of the state is the 6th congress district on the Atlantic coast and includes Daytona Beach. Republican presidential candidates have worn all six counties in the district in the last four presidential elections. The Republican winning streak in some of the counties extends decades ago. Lake County, for example, has not supported a democrat for the president for the president since Franklin Roosevelt in 1944.
Trump wore District in 2024 with 65% of the votes. Waltz received around 67% of the vote in its final re -election offer. Trump and Waltz played best in Putnam County, where both received about 74% of the votes. Her worst district in comparison was Volusia, where Trump received 58% and Waltz about 60%. Waltz easily exceeded Trump in every county in the district.
Gaetz resigned from the congress after Trump nominated him as a attorney in general, but he later withdrew from the exam after the continued examination of the sex trade and an investigation by the House Ethics Committee.
Waltz resigned in January to become a Weiße House national security advisor. This week Washington was deleted from the news that Waltz added a journalist to a chat in the Signal app group about military plans. According to the Atlantic, Waltz seemed to have incorrectly added the journalist to a chat in which 18 high -ranking civil servants of the Trump administration discussed the planning for a strike in Yemen, but many Republicans who went to the polls wiped up the story.
The Associated Press does not make projections and only explains a winner if it is found that there is no scenario that enables the follow -up candidates to close the gap. If a breed has not been called, the AP will continue to cover all the latest developments such as candidate concessions or victory clearations. The AP will make it clear that he has not yet explained a winner and explains why.
Machine counts in Florida are automatic if the voting span is 0.5% of the total hour or less. If the machine count leads to a voting span of 0.25% of the total votes or less, a manual re -counting of adjoining and underpin sets is required. The AP can explain a winner in a race that is suitable for a recording if it can find that the leadership is too vast to receive a recording or a legal challenge in order to change the result.
Here is a look at what you can expect on Tuesday:
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The special elections in Floridas 1. And 6th congress district take place on Tuesday. The surveys close at 7 p.m. local time, which is located in the 6th district at 7 p.m. and in the 1st district at 8:00 p.m. and in the 1st district.
What is on the ballot?
The Associated Press will provide voting results and declare the winners in the special elections of the 1st and 6th congress districts. In some parts of Florida, special primaries will also be on the ballot papers in some parts of Florida, but the AP will not be tabular in some parts of Florida.
Who can vote?
All voters registered in the 1st and 6th congress district can vote in the special elections in their districts.
What are the turnout and pre -selection?
As of March 3, Floridas 1. Congress district had almost 566,000 busy, registered voters, around 55% Republicans and 21% Democrats. The 6th district had around 559,000 busy registered voters, around 49% Republicans and 26% Democrats.
The turnout in the primary election of the special congress on January 28 was about 17% of registered Republicans in the 1st district and about 15% in the 6th district. The Democrats had no competitive primary primary in these districts.
The participation of the voters is usually much higher in the general elections in the president than in the elections held at other times. In the 2024 parliamentary elections, the turnout was about 76% of registered voters in the 1st district and about 80% in the 6th district.
About 73% of voters from counties, from which the 1st and 6th districts make up, made their ballot papers before the election day in the 2024 parliamentary elections. In the 2022 parliamentary elections, about 56% of the voters from the counties voted in the 1st district before the election day, compared to about 60% for voters from counties in the 6th district.
From Thursday morning, around 53,000 ballot papers were handed in in the 1st district, about 52% of Republicans and about 35% by Democrats. In the 6th district, almost 71,000 were occupied, about 45% of Republicans and 40% by Democrats.
How long does the vote recording normally take?
In the 2024 parliamentary elections, the AP reported results in the 6th congress district at 7 p.m. ET for the first time, just as the surveys were completed. The last voting update of the night was at 11:48 p.m. ET, with about 99% of the votes counted. In the 1st congress district, the first voice observation at 8:01 p.m. ET or a minute after completion of the surveys was reported. The election table of the election night in the 1st district ended at 1:33 a.m. ET with about 99% of the total votes.
In the special foresets on January 28, the first results of the 6th district at 7:02 p.m. The last update of the night was available at 8:38 p.m. ET with more than 99% of the vote reporting. In the 1st district, the first votes of the AP were published at 8 p.m. ET, with more than 99% of the votes that were reported to time votes for the night at 10:16 p.m.
