Former Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee was long considered the front-runner in the race. But Loren Taylor, a former city council ...

Former Oakland City Council member Loren Taylor shared his plans to bring change to the "struggling" Bay Area city in an ...

The decision to wait until November means a narrowly divided Congress will be down a Democratic representative for most of ...

Tuesday is Election Day in Oakland, when voters will choose a mayor to serve out the rest of recalled Mayor Sheng Thao’s term, a new City Council member and decide whether to raise sales taxes to help ...

President Donald Trump and other leading conservatives are celebrating a special election sweep in Florida, calling it a ...

Loren Taylor maintained his slim lead Wednesday over former congresswoman Barbara Lee in the special election to select Oakland's next mayor, according to the Alameda County Registrar of Voters' ...

Officials, community advocates, and voters have cited low turnout and high costs among the reasons for skipping the special election. The post Boston city councilors call to bypass special election to ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Tuesday set the date for a Nov. 4 special election to fill the late Rep. Sylvester Turner’s ...

Strong results in special elections do not necessarily lead to future electoral success. Democrats followed up a string of strong special election results early in Trump’s first term with ...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott said there would be a special election to fill the vacant seat after Rep. Sylvester Turner's death ...

Oakland voters went to the polls Tuesday to select a new mayor, new councilmember and weigh in on a measure that would increase the local sales tax. Polls in the special election was open from 7 a.m.

Democrats had accused Abbott of delaying calling a special election for the seat after Rep. Sylvester Turner, D-Texas, died ...