09:59 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nA Democrat has won an upset victory in a traditionally Republican House constituency in the state of New York.<\/p>\n
Kathy Hochul defeated Jane Corwin in a special election seen by analysts as a referendum on a Republican proposal to overhaul the Medicare health programme.<\/p>\n
The district in western New York had been held by Republicans for decades.<\/p>\n
Democrats hope the result illustrates wider voter distaste for Republican plans to cut entitlement programmes as a way to reduce the federal deficit.<\/p>\n
Republicans had presented their plan to revamp the Medicare programme as a necessary budget-cutting effort.<\/p>\n
Ms Hochul, the Erie County Clerk, won with 47% of the vote to 43% for Ms Corwin, a Republican state legislator. A third candidate, wealthy conservative Jack Davis, took 9%.<\/p>\n
The seat became empty in February when Republican Christopher Lee resigned after it emerged he had sent photographs of himself shirtless to a woman he had met on the internet.<\/p>\n
Since winning control of the US House of Representatives in November, largely by promising to reign in government spending, the Republican Party has united behind a proposal to dramatically reform the Medicare healthcare programme for older Americans by requiring programme participants to pay more for care.<\/p>\n
The party said the changes were necessary to control spiralling cost increases.<\/p>\n
Ms Corwin backed the plan, and Ms Hochul made criticism of that support a centrepiece of her campaign.<\/p>\n
Ms Hochul’s tactic appeared to work, with large numbers of Republican voters crossing party lines to back her.<\/p>\n
Republicans still maintain a significant majority in the House of Representatives, but analysts say party leaders may have to reassess how they use their Medicare proposal in the 2012 campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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