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There were two United States House of Representatives special elections inHawaii's 2nd congressional district within 35 days of each other to select the successor to DemocratPatsy Mink who had died frompneumonia. The elections, held November 30, 2002, and January 4, 2003, were officially nonpartisan and each held as general elections without primaries to pick a successor for the remainder of her term in the107th Congress and for the next term in the108th Congress, to which Mink was posthumously re-elected. Both elections were won by DemocratEd Case.
On August 30, 2002, Mink was hospitalized in Honolulu's Straub Clinic and Hospital with complications fromchickenpox. Her condition steadily worsened, and on September 28, 2002, Mink died in Honolulu of viralpneumonia. The week prior to her untimely death, she had won renomination. By this point, it was too late to remove her name from the general election ballot. On November 5, 2002, Mink was posthumously re-elected overstate RepresentativeBob McDermott (R). As a result, this triggered two separate special elections: the first to fill the vacancy during the end of the107th Congress and the second for the new term beginning on January 3, 2003. In accordance with Hawaiian law the elections were single nonpartisan races without primaries.
The two most notable candidates to compete in the first election were then-state representative and former state House Majority LeaderEd Case and John Mink, the former husband of the late Congresswoman. Despite the latter's connections to the district's prior representative, Case would win the election with fifty-one percent of the vote.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Ed Case | 23,576 | 51.44% | |
| Democratic | John Mink | 16,624 | 36.27% | |
| Republican | John S. Carroll | 1,933 | 4.22% | |
| Republican | Whitney Anderson | 942 | 2.06% | |
| Nonpartisan | Mark McNett | 449 | 0.98% | |
| Democratic | Kekoa David Kaapu | 269 | 0.59% | |
| Republican | Richard Haake | 229 | 0.50% | |
| Republican | Doug Fairhurst | 173 | 0.38% | |
| Republican | Kimo Kaloi | 149 | 0.33% | |
| Green | Nick Nikhilananda | 136 | 0.30% | |
| Democratic | Solomon Nalua'i | 116 | 0.25% | |
| Republican | Walter R. Barnes | 94 | 0.21% | |
| Republican | Carolyn Golojuch | 94 | 0.21% | |
| Republican | Clifford Rhodes | 86 | 0.19% | |
| Republican | Timmy Yuen | 85 | 0.19% | |
| Republican | Joe Conner | 83 | 0.18% | |
| Republican | Joseph Payne | 69 | 0.15% | |
| Democratic | Brian G. Cole | 67 | 0.15% | |
| Democratic | John L. Baker | 66 | 0.14% | |
| Democratic | Michael Gagne | 62 | 0.14% | |
| Republican | Bob Schieve | 55 | 0.12% | |
| Nonpartisan | Ron Jacobs | 54 | 0.12% | |
| Nonpartisan | Lillian Hong | 51 | 0.11% | |
| Democratic | Art Reyes | 51 | 0.11% | |
| Nonpartisan | John Mayer | 47 | 0.10% | |
| Libertarian | Jeff Mallan | 33 | 0.07% | |
| Libertarian | Lawrence Duquesne | 32 | 0.07% | |
| Democratic | Steve Tataii | 28 | 0.06% | |
| Nonpartisan | Bill Russell | 27 | 0.06% | |
| Nonpartisan | John Parker | 27 | 0.06% | |
| Green | Gregory Goodwin | 27 | 0.06% | |
| Democratic | Charles Collins | 18 | 0.04% | |
| Nonpartisan | Jack Randall | 16 | 0.03% | |
| Democratic | Paul Britos | 15 | 0.03% | |
| Nonpartisan | Dan A. Cole | 15 | 0.03% | |
| Nonpartisan | Mike Rethman | 11 | 0.02% | |
| Nonpartisan | S.J. Harlan | 10 | 0.02% | |
| Nonpartisan | Robert Martin Jr. | 10 | 0.02% | |
| Total votes | 46,216 | 100% | ||
The now-freshman incumbent Case immediately ran for reelection in the early January 2003 race for the second district seat in the108th Congress, going up against more than three dozen other candidates. Other Democrats included state SenatorsMatt Matsunaga andColleen Hanabusa. Republicans included state RepresentativesBarbara Marumoto andBob McDermott, and former Honolulu MayorFrank Fasi. Case won this election with 43 percent of the vote.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Ed Case | 33,002 | 43.67% | |
| Democratic | Matt Matsunaga | 23,050 | 30.5% | |
| Democratic | Colleen Hanabusa | 6,046 | 8.00% | |
| Republican | Barbara Marumoto | 4,497 | 5.95% | |
| Republican | Bob McDermott | 4,298 | 5.69% | |
| Republican | Chris Halford | 728 | 0.96% | |
| Republican | Kimo Kaloi | 642 | 0.85% | |
| Republican | John S. Carroll | 521 | 0.69% | |
| Republican | Frank Fasi | 483 | 0.64% | |
| Nonpartisan | Mark McNett | 449 | 0.59% | |
| Republican | Jim Rath | 414 | 0.55% | |
| Republican | Richard Haake | 212 | 0.28% | |
| Republican | Nelson Secretario | 208 | 0.28% | |
| Republican | Whitney Anderson | 201 | 0.27% | |
| Nonpartisan | Ron Jacobs | 91 | 0.12% | |
| Green | Nick Nikhilananda | 75 | 0.10% | |
| Democratic | Brian G. Cole | 69 | 0.09% | |
| Democratic | Kekoa David Kaapu | 68 | 0.09% | |
| Libertarian | Jeff Mallan | 58 | 0.08% | |
| Nonpartisan | Sophie Mataafa | 52 | 0.07% | |
| Republican | Doug Fairhurst | 38 | 0.05% | |
| Democratic | Michael Gagne | 35 | 0.05% | |
| Republican | Carolyn Martinez Golojuch | 29 | 0.04% | |
| Green | Gregory Goodwin | 27 | 0.04% | |
| Republican | Rich Payne | 25 | 0.03% | |
| Republican | Clarence Weatherwax | 25 | 0.03% | |
| Nonpartisan | Kabba Anand | 24 | 0.03% | |
| Nonpartisan | Dan Vierra | 22 | 0.03% | |
| Republican | John Sabey | 20 | 0.03% | |
| Democratic | Pat Rocco | 19 | 0.03% | |
| Nonpartisan | Bill Russell | 18 | 0.02% | |
| Nonpartisan | Steve Sparks | 17 | 0.02% | |
| Nonpartisan | Solomon Wong | 16 | 0.02% | |
| Democratic | Art Reyes | 15 | 0.02% | |
| Democratic | Paul Britos | 13 | 0.02% | |
| Nonpartisan | S.J. Harlan | 11 | 0.01% | |
| Democratic | Charles Collins | 10 | 0.01% | |
| Nonpartisan | Jack Randall | 9 | 0.01% | |
| Democratic | Steve Tataii | 9 | 0.01% | |
| Nonpartisan | Marshall Turner | 8 | 0.01% | |
| Republican | Mike Rethman | 8 | 0.01% | |
| Democratic | Herbert Jensen | 6 | 0.01% | |
| Nonpartisan | Alan Gano | 3 | 0.01% | |
| Nonpartisan | Bartle Rowland | 3 | 0.01% | |
| Total votes | 76,328 | 100% | ||