[[File:House-seats.jpg|thumb|275px|Democratic gains by region in 2006 and 2008]]
[[File:House-seats.jpg|thumb|275px|Democratic gains by region in 2006 and 2008]]
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A special election for U.S. House of Representatives District 1 in [[Hawaii]] will take place sixty days after February 23, 2010. Democrat Representative Neil Abercrombie has announced he will retire his seat to make an election run for the Governor of Hawaii. The [[Republican]] candidate running in this election is [[Charles Djou]], a state official of Honolulu and JAG Officer in the U.S. Army Reserves.