Republican state Rep. Gregory F. Murphy, a Greenville urologist, on Sept. 10 won the special election to succeed the late Walter Jones as representative of 17 eastern North Carolina counties in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Murphy garnered 70,142 votes to 42,570 for Allen Thomas, former Democratic mayor of Greenville, unofficial results showed.

Also running for the Third Congressional District seat were Greg Holt, Constitution Party, who got 502 votes, and Libertarian Tim Harris, who came in fourth with 393 votes.

There were no incumbents in this race.

In Tyrrell County Murphy captured 312 votes to 232 for Thomas. Holt and Harris both registered zeros in the final unofficial tally.

Voter turnout in Tyrrell was 24.49% (544 out of 2,221). An elections official said 198 Tyrrell residents voted early.

Murphy may hold a record for number of political contests won in a short time span. His election to Congress was his fourth win at the ballot box in 10 months. He won re-election to the N.C. House last November, led the 17 aspirants in the Republican primary for Congress in April, captured the GOP nomination in the runoff primary in July, and won the four-party Third District general election on Sept. 10.

Murphy’s seat, like the other 434 in the U.S. House of Representatives, will be up for election next year. Candidate filing for the 2020 elections opens in January.