In 2012, Republican Hunter Hill defeated incumbent Democrat Doug Stoner by a relatively narrow margin following Republican gerrymandering in 2011. In 2017 Hill resigned his seat to run for the Republican nomination for governor. In the initial special election in 2017, Republican candidates won 50.7 percent of the total vote, but the top two finishers were both Democrats (Jen Jordan and Jaha Howard). Hillary Clinton won this district by 15 percentage points.
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