Hahn, a Los Angeles City Councilwoman and member of a political dynasty, earned about 55% of the vote to Huey's 45% when all ballots were counted late Tuesday.
She succeeds Democrat Jane Harman, who resigned to run a Washington think tank, in California's 36th District.
For a special election whose outcome would have little impact on the partisan balance in the U.S. House, the run-off race between Hahn and Huey at times turned nasty.
A conservative super PAC ran an ad depicting Hahn as a stripper that also used racist imagery and language. Hahn called Huey, a businessman who publishes Christian voter guides, "extreme" for his views on issues such as abortion. Huey tried to portray Hahn as a career politician, and tapped Tea Party support in the campaign.
After the vote, Hahn vowed to press for more jobs and aid for veterans. "When they come home, we have to do a better job making sure they get their health benefits. They deserve that and we owe it to them," she's quoted as saying in The Daily Breeze.
And in Wisconsin's recall primary, Democrats beat back six Republican primary challengers in order to secure Democratic opponents for the six GOP state senators facing a recall challenge.
Party-backed candidates won in each of six state Senate districts in Tuesday's vote, essentially a Democratic primary but with an odd twist that took place ahead of a formal August recall vote.
The candidates had to beat back unusual primary challenges from six Republicans who ran as Democrats in order to give the targeted Republican incumbents more time to campaign, raise money and maintain their party's hold on the state Senate.
Unofficial results posted on websites run by election officials in the counties where the six races were run showed the Democratic Party-backed candidates won all six races, and Democrats declared victory.
Running tallies late on Tuesday showed double-digit Democratic leads in all but one race, where the Democratic candidate led by a smaller but still substantial margin.
Things all went the Dems' way last night, so of course it "doesn't mean anything" as far as 2012 is concerned, according the right.
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