GOP's Djou wins Hawaii special election for Congress

Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou has won
the special election in urban Honolulu’s 1st
Congressional District, the first Republican sent
to Washington, D.C., to represent the Islands in
two decades.

According to final count from the state Office of
Elections, Djou had 39.4 percent of the vote,
followed by 30.8 percent for state Senate
President Colleen Hanabusa and 27.6 percent for
former congressman Ed Case. The remaining 11
other candidates attracted the rest of the vote.

The results are for ballots mailed in or dropped
off through Friday and ballots received today,
accounting for all of the votes cast in the
winner-take-all special election.

Djou would serve out the remaining months of
former congressman Neil Abercrombie’s term in
Congress, which ends in January 2011.
Abercrombie resigned in February to concentrate
on his campaign in the Democratic primary for
governor.

The September primary and November general
election will determine who replaces
Abercrombie in Congress.

Djou would be the first Republican from Hawaii
sent to Congress in 20 years and only the third
since statehood.

Case and Hanabusa split the Democratic vote, as
public and private polls had predicted.

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