| Election Name: | 2003 United States House of Representatives elections |
| Country: | United States |
| Type: | legislative |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2002 United States House of Representatives elections |
| Previous Year: | 2002 |
| Next Election: | 2004 United States House of Representatives elections |
| Next Year: | 2004 |
| Seats For Election: | 2 of the 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives |
| Majority Seats: | 218 |
| Election Date: | January 4, 2003 and June 3, 2003 |
| Flag Year: | 1960 |
| Image1: | SpeakerHastert.jpg |
| Leader1: | Dennis Hastert |
| Leader Since1: | January 3, 1999 |
| Party1: | Republican Party (US) |
| Last Election1: | 229 seats |
| Seats1: | 1 |
| Leader2: | Dick Gephardt |
| Leader Since2: | January 3, 1995 |
| Party2: | Democratic Party (US) |
| Last Election2: | 205 seats |
| Seats2: | 1 |
| Party4: | Independent (US) |
| Last Election4: | 1 seats |
| Seats4: | 0 |
| Speaker | |
| Before Election: | Dennis Hastert |
| Before Party: | Republican Party (US) |
| After Election: | Dennis Hastert |
| After Party: | Republican Party (US) |
There were two special elections to the United States House of Representatives in 2003 during the 108th United States Congress.
Elections are listed by date and district.
| District | Incumbent | This race | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Representative | Party | First elected | Results | Candidates | |||||
| Ed Case | Democratic | 2002 | Member-elect Patsy Mink (D) died September 28, 2002, but was posthumously elected to the 108th Congress. Ed Case had won a special election for the seat in the 107th Congress November 30, 2002, but not for the 108th Congress. Incumbent re-elected January 4, 2003. | nowrap | |||||
| Larry Combest | Republican | 1984 | Incumbent resigned May 31, 2003 for personal reasons. New member elected June 3, 2003, in a run-off vote. Republican hold. | nowrap | |||||
Incumbent Democrat Patsy Mink died on September 28, 2002 due to viral pneumonia as a result of complications from chickenpox. By the time of her death, it had been too late to remove her from the general election ballot. Thus, on November 5, Mink was post-humously re-elected.
A special election was held on November 30, 2002 to fill out the remainder of her term, with Democrat Ed Case winning the election.
Another election, this time to for the 108th Congress was held on January 4, 2003 with incumbent Ed Case running for re-election, along with 3 dozen other candidates including Democrat state Senators Matt Matsunaga and Colleen Hanabusa, Republican state Representatives Barbara Marumoto and Bob McDermott, John Carroll, and former Mayor of Honolulu Frank Fasi.
Incumbent Ed Case won re-election with 44% of the vote.
See main article: 2003 Texas's 19th congressional district special election. Incumbent Republican Larry Combest announced his resignation on November 12, 2002 following the deaths of his father and one of his daughters, and officially resigned on May 31, 2003.
A nonpartisan special primary was held on May 3, 2003.As no candidates received over 50% of the vote, the two candidates with the most votes, Randy Neugebauer and Mike Conaway moved to a run-off held on June 3.Neugebauer narrowly won the election, with 50.52% of the vote.