Catherine A. Rombeau is an American politician of the Democratic Party, who is a State Representative for Hillsborough County's 7th district in the

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. Her 37-vote victory in a special election marked the first flip for Democrats in the

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, and made her only the second Democrat to be elected to the state house from the town of

Bedford Bedford is a market town in Bedfordshire, England. At the 2011 Census, the population was 106,940. Bedford is the county town of Bedfordshire and seat of the Borough of Bedford local government district. Bedford was founded at a ford (crossin ...

, a historically Republican town. Before being elected to the state legislature, Rombeau was a member of the

City Council.

Electoral history

References

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