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Dems Win In GOP-Heavy District in N.Y., GOP Captures N.J., Va. Gov. Seats
One year following an historic election, the pendulum of change continues its swing.
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NEW YORK (November 04, 2009)-Democrats claimed a New York House seat that traditionally had gone to GOP candidates; New York state now has only two Republican congressmen in its 29-seat delegation.
Democrat and retired Air Force Capt. Bill Owens, running in an historically Republican stronghold, capitalized on a split that emerged between Republican moderates and conservatives.
Owens defeated businessman Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate, 49 percent to 45 percent, after a boost from unified labor efforts and the withdrawal of the Republican candidate over the weekend.
Republicans hadn't lost in the region in more than a century.
Owens will be up for election for a full term next year.
In New Jersey, on the other hand, voters ousted incumbent Gov. Jon Corzine in favor of the republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie.
The state has been battered by the economic recession and plagued by political corruption.
Christie unseated the deep-pocketed but unpopular governor after a bruising contest that focused on New Jersey's ailing economy and its highest-in-the-nation property taxes.
The 47-year-old Christie is the first member of his party in a dozen years to win a statewide contest in heavily Democratic New Jersey.
Republicans also reclaimed the Governor’s seat in a closely watched Virginia race.
Republican Bob McDonnell wooed Virginia's independent voters Tuesday to win a landslide election for governor.
The win comes just a year after the state bucked tradition and voted for Barack Obama.
McDonnell, a conservative former state attorney general, had about 60 percent of the vote with most precincts reporting.
He takes back the governor's office after eight years of Democrat control.
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AP Reports contributed to this story
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