What Happened in NC's 12th House District in 2014?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

There have been instances where people who won the general election, lost the special or vice versa.

When Tom Delay was forced to resign. The Republican replacement Shelley Sekula-Gibbs won the special election to serve out his term (ending January 3, 2007) and Democrat Nick Lampson won the general election for the term commencing January 3, 2007 and ending in January 2009. Both elections were held on the same day.

By comparison, in NY-29 in 2010, after the Democrat resigned. The Democratic Governor set the date to be the same as the general election (something like 8 months later), which led some to cry foul since it was most certainly to flip to the Republicans. The special election was held the same day as the General and Republican Tom Reed won both.