Former Gov. Mark Sanford has cleared another hurdle in his bid for a political comeback, easily defeating a former Charleston County Council member, Curtis Bostic, on Tuesday to win the Republican nomination for a vacant Congressional seat. The candidates were vying in a runoff in the First Congressional District, which covers the south coast. Mr. Sanford will face the Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch and the Green Party candidate Eugene Platt in a May special election. Mr. Sanford's political career was derailed four years ago by his admission of an extramarital affair.
A version of this brief appeared in print on April 3, 2013, on page A14 of the New York edition with the headline: South Carolina: Ex-governor Advances .source : http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/03/us/politics/south-carolina-ex-governor-advances.html