Republican wins in New York Democratic stronghold

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Republicans won an upset  victory in a Democratic stronghold in New York yesterday in a  special U.S. House of Representatives election for the seat  vacated by former Representative Anthony Weiner, who resigned  after a Twitter sex scandal.
Republican Bob Turner, a retired media executive who had  called the election a repudiation of President Barack Obama,  defeated Democrat David Weprin, a state assemblyman, by six  points, 53 percent to 47 percent, a New York cable television  station said.
“We’ve been asked by the people of this district to send a  message to Washington and I hope they hear it laud and clear,”  Turner told supporters. “We’re ready to say, ‘Mr. President, we  are on the wrong track.'”
The district, which includes parts of Brooklyn and Queens,  had gone Democrat in every election since the 1920s, and  Democrats outnumber Republicans three to one.
Turner’s triumph, and a Republican victory in another  special House election — in Nevada — boosted the Republican  majority over Democrats in the House to 242-192.