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Recap: Saturday 4 January 2003 - Hawaii Special Election House CD 2

http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G03/HI.phtml#H02

Special Election to fill the vacant seat of deceased Congressman Patsy Mink
who was posthumously re-elected on 5 November 2002 to the 108th Congress.

The election was won by Democratic Congressman Ed Case.  Congressman Case had
previously won the 2002 November 30 special election to replace Congressman Mink in the 107th Congress.

Top vote-getters (from an official source)

http://kumu.icsd.hawaii.gov/elections/reslt02/special/result03special.html

CASE, Ed (D) 33,002 43.2%
MATSUNAGA, Matt (D) 23,050 30.2%
HANABUSA, Colleen (D) 6,046 7.9%
MARUMOTO, Barbara C. (R) 4,497 5.9%
McDERMOTT, Bob (R) 4,298 5.6%
HALFORD, Chris (R) 728 1.0%

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Friday 3 January 2003 - the 108th Congress

Newly elected or re-elected members of the 108th Congress (House and Senate)-
those elected or re-elected on Tuesday 5 November 2002- officially began their
new terms of office at Noon Eastern Standard Time (1700 UTC) today, even though
each house of Congress is not formally convening until next Tuesday
(7 January)... any Congressman and Senator who served in the old 107th Congress
and retired (whether such retirement was voluntary or involuntary [that is, a
rejection by the voters this past 5 November]) is no longer officially serving
in his or her former office as of today.

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Upcoming events

Saturday 3 May 2003 (tentative date) - Texas - Special Election House CD 19
to fill the seat of Republican Congressman Larry Combest who will retire
effective 31 May 2003.
 http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G03/TX.phtml#H19

Tuesday 20 May 2003 - Kentucky - Primary
 http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G03/KY.phtml

Tuesday 5 August 2003 - Mississippi - Primary 
 http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G03/MS.phtml

Tuesday 26 August 2003 - Mississippi - Runoff (if necessary)
 http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G03/MS.phtml