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Democrat Don Cazayoux won a special congressional election Saturday, bolstering his party's majority status on Capitol Hill and taking a seat held by Republicans since 1974.

"It's of enormous national significance," said Dane Strother, a Washington-based Democratic consultant. President Bush won 59 percent of the district's vote in 2004, he noted.

"If we take yet another Republican seat, a seat that has been considered safe for years, then every 59 percent district is at play," he said.