Democrat Tom Suozzi defeated Republican Mazi Pilip to flip New York’s Third Congressional District in the special election.
The Republicans will have a 219-213 majority when Suozzi officially joins the House.
It only happened because the House expelled George Santos less than a year into his term.
Suozzi held the district for six years before deciding to run for governor. He did not win.
The election between Suozzi and Pilip was close. With 93% of the votes in, Suozzi has 53.9% of the votes to Pilip’s 46.1%. From Fox News:
The district, which includes a sliver of the outer portion of the New York City borough of Queens, is anchored in neighboring Nassau County. And it’s the kind of suburban district where Democrats need to dominate in the 2024 elections as they aim to reclaim the House majority they lost in the 2022 midterms.But while Democrats have performed well in suburban districts in recent cycles, Republicans have a history of coming out on top on New York’s Long Island. While Biden carried the current confines of the district by eight points in his 2020 presidential election victory, Santos won the 2022 election for the open House seat by the same margin.
Then again, everything might change due to redrawing the district map:
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