Republican David Jolly has defeated Democrat Alex Sink by a 49-percent to 47-percent margin in the special election in Florida’s 13th congressional district, according to current returns.

This is a district that was represented by Republican Bill Young, who was first elected in 1970, until his death last year. His predecessor, William Cramer, was the first Republican elected in Florida in modern times, in 1954, when the district included all of Pinellas County (St. Petersburg, Clearwater) and Hillsborough County (Tampa).