2017 South Carolina's 5th congressional district special election

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2017 South Carolina's 5th congressional district special election
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South Carolina's 5th congressional district
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Nominee Ralph Norman Archie Parnell
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote45,07642,341
Percentage51.0%47.9%
2017 South Carolina's 5th congressional district special election results map by county.svg
County results
Norman:     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%
Parnell:     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%
U.S. Representative before election

Mick Mulvaney
Republican

Elected U.S. Representative

Ralph Norman
Republican

A special election was held on June 20, 2017, to determine the member of the United States House of Representatives for South Carolina's 5th congressional district. Representative Mick Mulvaney was nominated by President Donald Trump as director of the Office of Management and Budget and confirmed by the United States Senate on February 16, 2017, necessitating his resignation from the House of Representatives. [1] [2]

Contents

State Representative Ralph Norman narrowly defeated Archie Parnell, a senior advisor for Goldman Sachs, 51.0% to 47.9%, in a low-turnout election.

Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

Declined

  • Penry Gustafson, former businesswoman and community advocate of Camden, SC [9]
  • Gary Simrill, state representative [10]

Endorsements

Tommy Pope
Ralph Norman
Chad Connelly
Tom Mullikin

Polling

First round

Poll
source		Date(s)
administered		Sample
size		Margin of
error		Chad
Connelly		Sheri
Few		Tom
Mullikin		Ralph
Norman		Tommy
Pope		Kris
Wampler		OtherUndecided
Atlantic Research and Media of North Carolina*February 25, 2017239± 6.2%1%9%8%11%19%0%—51%
Remington Research Group January 7–8, 2017778± 3.4%9%——9%25%—6% [20] 52%

*Internal survey for the Sheri Few campaign

Runoff

Poll
source		Date(s)
administered		Sample
size		Margin of
error		Ralph
Norman		Tommy
Pope		Undecided
Trafalgar Group May 8–10, 20171000+± 3.1%46%45%9%

Results

South Carolina's 5th congressional district special election Republican primary, 2017 [21] [22]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Tommy Pope 11,943 30.4%
Republican Ralph Norman 11,808 30.1%
Republican Tom Mullikin7,75919.8%
Republican Chad Connelly5,54614.1%
Republican Sheri Few1,9304.9%
Republican Kris Wampler1970.5%
Republican Ray Craig870.2%
Total votes39,270 100.00%
Runoff election
Republican Ralph Norman 17,823 50.31%
Republican Tommy Pope17,60249.69%
Total votes35,425 100.00%

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

Declined

Results

South Carolina's 5th congressional district special election Democratic primary, 2017
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Archie Parnell 13,333 71.3%
Democratic Alexis Frank4,03021.5%
Democratic Les Murphy1,3467.2%
Total votes18,709 100.00%

Libertarian Party

Candidates

Nominated

Eliminated at convention

The Libertarian Party nominating convention was held April 1, 2017. [29]

  • Bill Bledsoe
  • Nathaniel Cooper

Green Party

Candidates

Nominated

General election

Candidates

Endorsements

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered		Sample
size		Margin of
error		Ralph
Norman (R)		Archie
Parnell (D)		OtherUndecided
Change Research [31] June 14–18, 2017872± 3%53%44%3%–
Gravis Marketing [32] May 19–22, 2017746± 3.6%47%34%3%16%
Victory Enterprises/Rampart PAC (R) [33] May 17–18, 2017629± 3.9%53%36%–11%

Results

South Carolina's 5th congressional district special election, 2017 [34]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Republican Ralph Norman 45,076 51.04% -8.03%
Democratic Archie Parnell 42,34147.94%+9.17%
American Josh Thornton3190.36%-1.74%
Libertarian Victor Kocher2730.31%N/A
Green David Kulma2420.27%N/A
Write-In Write-in650.07%+0.31%
Total votes88,316 100.0%
Republican hold

County results

Vote breakdown by county
Ralph Norman
Republican 		Archie Parnell
Democrat 		Total
CountyVotes %Votes %Votes
Cherokee 3,36761.86%2,03137.31%5,443
Chester 1,94045.20%2,30153.61%4,292
Fairfield 1,12532.33%2,31466.49%3,480
Kershaw 3,72052.53%3,29946.59%7,081
Lancaster 6,23755.07%4,98544.02%11,325
Lee 63225.54%1,82573.74%2,475
Newberry 1,62751.07%1,51947.68%3,186
Spartanburg 76370.98%30228.09%1,075
Sumter 3,75739.64%5,67159.84%9,477
Union 1,43650.35%1,39748.98%2,852
York 20,47254.44%16,69744.33%37,630

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