Claim: Republican Deborah Pryce defeated Democrat Mark P. Brown with a very narrow lead of 0.18% in Ohio's 15th Congressional district election in 2002.
Evidence: Deborah Pryce Republican 2002 Mark P. Brown: 54,286 Deborah D. Pryce: 108,193 Deborah Denine Pryce (born July 29, 1951) is an American politician from Ohio who was the member of the United States House of Representatives for Ohio's 15th congressional district, which includes the western half of Columbus and the surrounding suburbs, from 1993 to 2009. She is a Republican. Mark P. Brown (born c. 1956, Columbus, Ohio) is a veteran of the Ohio National Guard, a former construction/civil engineering technician and former political candidate of the Democratic party. Pryce won both elections gaining 108,193 votes to Brown's 54,286 in 2002, and 189,024 votes to Brown's 117,324 in 2004.