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| As of mid-September, eight House members had been denied renomination by their party's primary voters. That is the highest number of primary election casualties since a post-World War II record 19 House incumbents were beaten in 1992. Also, one senator has been defeated, Bob Smith of New Hampshire, who lost the Republican primary Sept. 10 to Rep. John E. Sununu, 53.5%-to-44.7%. Smith was the first elected senator in a decade to lose a primary.
The results below are based on nearly complete but unofficial returns, except for California and the first-round primary in Alabama, where the votes are official. The districts are those in which defeated House members were seeking a seat in the 108th Congress. An asterisk (*) indicates primaries where incumbents of the same party were paired against each other. |
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Primary %
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Primary Outcome | Factors in Defeat | |
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| Gary Condit, D-Calif. 18 (lost March 5) |
6 | 38.7% |
(Lost to Dennis A. Cardoza by 15%)
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Embroiled in sensational case of missing intern
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| Brian Kerns, R-Ind. 4 (lost May 7) |
1 | 30.6% | (Lost to Rep. Steve Buyer by 25%)* | Paired against a veteran GOP incumbent in revamped district |
| Tom Sawyer, D-Ohio 17 (lost May 7) |
8 | 27.5% | (Lost to Timothy Ryan by 14%) | Demand for trade protectionism in redrawn district results in loss to young state senator |
| Frank Mascara, D-Pa. 12 (lost May 21) |
4 | 36.8% |
(Lost to Rep. John P. Murtha by 26%)*
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Paired against Pennsylvania's version of Robert Byrd
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| Earl Hilliard, D-Ala. 7 (lost June 25) |
5 | 45.7% | (Lost runoff to Artur Davis by 12%) | Primary rematch in race where Mideast politics became an issue |
| Lynn Rivers, D-Mich. 15 (lost Aug. 6) |
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41.2%
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(Lost to Rep. John Dingell by 18%)* | Paired against House's most veteran incumbent |
| Bob Barr, R-Ga. 7 (lost Aug. 20) |
4 | 35.5% | (Lost to Rep. John Linder by 29%)* | Outspoken ex-Clinton impeachment manager loses to softer-spoken ex-NRCC chairman |
| Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga. 4 (lost Aug. 20) |
5 | 41.7% | (Lost to Denise Majette by 17%) | Second Southern black Democrat loses primary in which Mideast policy an issue |
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