South Carolina's 5th congressional district special election, 2017
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A special election was held in 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.
The primary election was held on May 2, with a primary runoff for the Republican nomination being held on May 16 since no Republican candidate got 50% of the vote or greater in the primary. The special election will be held on June 20. The candidate filing period lasted from March 3 until March 13 at noon.
Aiming to reclaim the district, which has been been represented by a Republican only since incumbent John M. Spratt, Jr. was defeated by Mick Mulvaney in 2011, Democratic Primary candidates include: Alexis Frank, a U.S. Army veteran from Hartsville, South Carolina who served in the XVIII Airborne Corps JAG and who is married to an active duty Marine, Les Murphy, a disabled U.S. Marine Corps Veteran and the founder of a local faith-based non-profit organization called the Carolina Veterans Commission. Also competing in the democratic primary is Archie Parnell, the son of an adopted prominent York County, South Carolina WWII veteran who has served previously as a tax attorney, a senior Goldman Sachs advisor, as well as a staff member on the House Committee on Ways & Means. State Representative John King, State Senator Vincent Sheheen, and Fran Person, (the previous Democratic nominee for the seat) have all declined to run for the seat at this time. Archie Parnell went on to become the Democratic Nominee. [1]
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