On June 26, California held a special election to fill the vacancy in the 37th U.S. House district. Since no one got as much as 50%, a run-off will be held on August 21 between Democrat Laura Richardson, Republican John Kanaley, Green Daniel Brezenoff, and Libertarian Herb Peters. For the June 26 election results, see here.
Talk about a situation where instant runoff voting makes so much sense! Not only did the Democrat not win by a majority among Democrats, but now has to wait two months to take office for a lopsided general election against that will have even lower turnout than this week….