David Wu Democratic Suzanne Bonamici Democratic A 2012 special election in Oregon's 1st congressional district was held on January 31, 2012, to fill a seat in the U.S. Congress for Oregon's 1st congressional district, following the resignation of Representative David Wu.

Primary elections were held on November 8, 2011, with the Democrats selecting state senator Suzanne Bonamici and the Republicans selecting businessman Rob Cornilles.

[1][2] Bonamici was declared the winner almost as soon as the ballot deadline expired at 8 pm PST.

The following candidates have filed to run in the primary: Oregon's cross nomination system, a form of fusion voting, allows a candidate for partisan public office to be nominated by up to three political parties.

Suzanne Bonamici won the primary and was able list herself as the nominee of the Independent Party on the general election ballot.