Special elections to the 114th United States Congress (2015-2016)
Special elections to United States Congress are required in the event of vacancies. This page is a compilation of all special elections to the 114th Congress in 2015-2016.
Special elections to Congress occur when a legislator resigns or is removed from office. Depending on the specific state laws governing vacancies, a state can either hold an election within the same calendar year, or wait until the next regularly scheduled election. For the purposes of our coverage of Congressional special elections, we combined all special elections pertaining to the 114th Congress to one page. Some of these special elections occurred in 2015; others in 2016.
Seven special elections were required in the 114th Congress.
Breakdown of 114th United States Congress special elections
Among the reasons for special elections include:
The partisan breakdown for special elections that occurred during the 114th Congress is as follows:
- Five Republican seats
- Two Democratic seats
Announced special elections
The table below detailed a running list of the special elections to the 114th United States Congress as they were announced.
| District | Prior Incumbent | General Election Candidates | Election Date | Winner | Partisan Switch? |
| New York's 11th | Michael Grimm |  Daniel Donovan Vincent Gentile James Lane |
May 5, 2015 | Daniel Donovan |
No |
| Mississippi's 1st | Alan Nunnelee | Walter Zinn Boyce Adams Nancy Collins Trent Kelly Quentin Whitwell Chip Mills Greg Pirkle Daniel Sparks Mike Tagert Sam Adcock Ed Holliday Starner Jones Henry Ross |
May 12, 2015 | Trent Kelly |
No |
| Illinois' 18th | Aaron Schock | Robert Mellon Darin LaHood |
September 10, 2015 | Darin LaHood |
No |
| Ohio's 8th | John Boehner | Corey Foister Warren Davidson James Condit, Jr. |
June 7, 2016 | Warren Davidson |
No |
| Pennsylvania's 2nd | Chaka Fattah | Dwight Evans James Jones |
November 8, 2016 | Dwight Evans |
No |
| Hawaii's 1st | Mark Takai | Colleen Hanabusa Peter Cross Angela Aulani Kaaihue Howard Kim Javier Ocasio Shirlene Ostrov Alan Yim Calvin Griffin Yvonne Perry Peter Plotzeneder |
November 8, 2016 | Colleen Hanabusa |
No |
| Kentucky's 1st | Ed Whitfield | James Comer Sam Gaskins |
November 8, 2016 | James Comer |
No |
See also
- United States Congress
- United States Senate
- United States House of Representatives
- Filling vacancies in the U.S. Senate
Footnotes
- ↑ National Journal, "Mississippi Rep. Alan Nunnelee Dies at 56," February 6, 2015
- ↑ FoxNews, "Rep. Michael Grimm to resign after admitting to tax evasion," December 30, 2014
- ↑ Politico, "Rep. Aaron Schock resigns," March 17, 2015
- ↑ Philly.com, "Special election for Fattah's former U.S. House seat will be Nov. 8," July 1, 2016
- ↑ Roll Call, "Special Election Date Set for Boehner Replacement," November 2, 2015
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