The 2004 United States House of Representatives special election in

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was held on July 20, 2004 to select the successor to

Frank Ballance Frank Winston Ballance Jr. (February 15, 1942 – February 22, 2019) was an American politician and attorney who was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 2003 to 2004, representing North Carolina's 1st congres ...

(D) who resigned due to health concerns and ongoing investigations which would ultimately culminate in criminal convictions on charges of committing

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and

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. The election was won by a wide margin by former

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Associate Justice

G. K. Butterfield George Kenneth Butterfield Jr. (born April 27, 1947) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 1st congressional district from 2004 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elec ...

. Republicans did not seriously contest this election given the strong Democratic tilt of the district, which has not elected a Republican to the

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since Reconstruction nor been represented by a moderate to conservative Representative since 1992 when

Walter B. Jones, Sr. Walter Beaman Jones Sr. (August 19, 1913 – September 15, 1992), was an American Democratic politician from the state of North Carolina who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1966 until his death from natural causes in ...

(D), the father of former 3rd District Representative Walter B. Jones, Jr. (R) died.

Party primaries

Each party held a nominating convention to choose their nominee for the special election. Democrats nominated

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Judge and former

Associate Justice

, while Republicans chose security consultant Greg Dority. Butterfield overwhelmingly won the election to fill out the rest of Ballance's unexpired term. On the same day, he and Dority both won their respective parties' primaries and would face each other again in the November general election, which Butterfield would win.William L. Holmes, "Butterfield Wins Special Election; Will Face Dority in November," 21 July 2004, Associated Press, Retrieved March 2, 2010

Election results

References

External links

* tp://www.app.sboe.state.nc.us/enrs/pricontest07xx20xx2004.txt {{DEFAULTSORT:North Carolina's 1st Congressional District Special Election, 2004 North Carolina 1

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