California's 5th congressional district special election, 2005

On March 8, 2005, a special election was held in the California's 5th congressional district to choose a U.S. Representative to replace Bob Matsui, who had died of pneumonia shortly after being re-elected in the 2004 elections. Matsui's wife, Doris, was quickly able to win support from the Democratic Party officials, and ended up winning over two-thirds of the vote in the special primary election, meaning a run-off would not be needed.

Results

Election box winning candidate with party link no change
party = Democratic Party (United States)
candidate = Doris Matsui
votes = 56,175
percentage = 67.65Election box candidate with party link no change
party = Democratic Party (United States)
candidate = Julie Padilla
votes = 7,158
percentage = 8.62Election box candidate with party link no change
party = Republican Party (United States)
candidate = John Flynn
votes = 6,559
percentage = 7.90Election box candidate with party link no change
party = Republican Party (United States)
candidate = Serge Chernay
votes = 3,742
percentage = 4.51Election box candidate with party link no change
party = Republican Party (United States)
candidate = Michael O'Brien
votes = 2,591
percentage = 3.12Election box candidate with party link no change
party = Republican Party (United States)
candidate = Shane Singh
votes = 1,753
percentage = 2.11Election box candidate with party link no change
party = Republican Party (United States)
candidate = Bruce Stevens
votes = 1,124
percentage = 1.35Election box candidate with party link no change
party = Green Party (United States)
candidate = Pat Driscoll
votes = 976
percentage = 1.18Election box candidate with party link no change
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Leonard Padilla
votes = 916
percentage = 1.10Election box candidate with party link no change
party = Democratic Party (United States)
candidate = Charles Pineda
votes = 659
percentage = 0.79Election box candidate with party link no change
party = Libertarian Party (United States)
candidate = Gale Morgan
votes = 451
percentage = 0.54Election box candidate with party link no change
party = Peace and Freedom Party
candidate = John Reiger
votes = 286
percentage = 0.34Election box candidate with party link no change
party = Democratic Party (United States)
candidate = Lara Shapiro (write-in)
votes = 6
percentage = 0.01Election box invalid no change
votes = 637
percentage = 0.77Election box total no change
votes = 83,033
percentage = 100.0Election box turnout no change
percentage = 27.72Election box hold with party link without swing
winner = Democratic Party (United States)

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