Final 2014 House Race Settled After Recount
Posted on AllSides December 17th, 2014
From The Center
Forty-three days after Election Day, the 2014 midterms are finally over.
Republican Martha McSally on Wednesday won the last unresolved House race of the cycle in Arizona’s second district following a lengthy recount. Her victory means that Republicans will have 247 seats in the House next year—the largest majority either party has held since the 71st Congress adjourned in 1931.
Ms. McSally, a former Air Force pilot, defeated Democrat Ron Barber by just 167 votes, after losing to him just two years earlier by 2,500 votes. Ballots counted just after...
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