California's 5th congressional district special election, 2005

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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.

[edit] Results

California's 5th congressional district special election, 2005^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage
	Democratic	Doris Matsui	56,175	67.65%
	Democratic	Julie Padilla	7,158	8.62%
	Republican	John Thomas Flynn	6,559	7.90%
	Republican	Serge Chernay	3,742	4.51%
	Republican	Michael O'Brien	2,591	3.12%
	Republican	Shane Singh	1,753	2.11%
	Republican	Bruce Robert Stevens	1,124	1.35%
	Green	Pat Driscoll	976	1.18%
	Independent	Leonard Padilla	916	1.10%
	Democratic	Charles Pineda	659	0.79%
	Libertarian	Gale Morgan	451	0.54%
	Peace and Freedom	John Reiger	286	0.34%
	Democratic	Lara Shapiro (write-in)	6	0.01%
Invalid ballots			637	0.77%
Totals			83,033	100.00%
Voter turnout			27.72%