June Vote Set for Ga. Congressional Seat

There will be a June 19 special election held to fill the vacant House seat of GOP Rep. Charles Norwood, a seven-term congressman, who died last week. The number of terms he served in the legislative branch reminded me of the graph in the Polsby article that looked at the mean percentage of first-term members and how it decreased over time from around 50% in the 1780s to less than 20% by the 1960s.

Because the special election is in June, the candidates who will be running for the seat (3 Republicans and 1 Democrat so far) will have only about 4 months to campaign.