Republican David Jolly defeated Democrat Alex Sink in a hotly contested special election Tuesday for the U.S. House with a campaign in which he championed repeal of President Obama's health care law and said Sink would be a vote to advance the president's agenda.
Jolly is a lobbyist and former aide to the late Rep. C.W. "Bill" Young, whose death last October sparked the special election. Jolly was backed by Young's family and while he was outspent two-to-one by Sink's campaign, a flood of nearly $5 million in outside money evened the playing field in a race in which nearly $12 million was spent, including $9 million of outside special interest money.
He narrowly defeated Sink by 3400 votes, 48.4%-46.5%, in a district contained entirely within Pinellas County. While Sink displayed an early advantage with early and mail-in vote tallies, Jolly rebounded with a strong Election Day turnout among GOP voters.
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