Gloria Negrete McLeod

Assemblyman Ben Hueso (D-San Diego) on Tuesday won a special election for the 40th Senate District seat vacated when Juan Vargas moved on to Congress. With all precincts reporting, Hueso garnered 52% of the vote, according to the unofficial tally...

SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday called a special election to fill the 16th District state Senate seat vacated last month by Michael Rubio. The primary will be May 21 and, if no candidate wins a majority, a runoff would be held July 23. Nobody...

Another round of political musical chairs is on tap Tuesday when voters in two Southern California Senate Districts go to the polls to fill vacancies created when Democratic Sens. Gloria Negrete McLeod of Chino and Juan Vargas of San Diego resigned to...

jlender@courant.com Much of the story at Tuesday night's State of the Union speech will be about Connecticut, from the Newtown massacre to Manchester, where bullets killed eight employees at Hartford Distributors in 2010, to Bridgeport, where a 3-year-...

A special election for the vacant 40th state Senate district was set for May while the primary for election is scheduled for March, the governor announced Monday. The special election will be held May 17, according to a press release, and the primary is...

A special election for the vacant 40th state Senate District was set for May while the primary for election is scheduled for March, the governor announced today. The 40th Senate District encompasses San Diego, Riverside and Imperial counties and was...

There's no secret why, for years, politicians of both parties have been afraid to stand up and support tighter controls on guns: Because they're afraid of the NRA. But, after the slaughter of innocents at Sandy Hook Elementary School, that fear is all but...

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Super-PAC "Independence USA" poured an additional $2.35 million into a television advertising campaign to defeat Democratic Rep. Joe Baca of Rialto. Baca is being challenged by fellow Democrat, state S en. Gloria...

Challenger Gloria Negrete Mcleod unseated Rep. Joe Baca in San Bernardino's 35th Congressional District, according to the California Secretary of State....

Raul Ruiz, a Democratic emergency room doctor, ked out a victory over Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-Palm Springs) in the race for the 36th Congressional District seat in the Coachella Valley....

Election night tallies in several Congressional and legislative races left open the possiblity the outcomes could change when provisional and remaining absentee ballots are counted....

California state Senate Democrats woke up Wednesday confident they had won a supermajority of at least 28 seats, but with two of their members having won election to Congress, they acknowledged they will have to win special elections to fill......