1813 Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district special election explained

On August 2, 1813, Representative John Gloninger (F) of Pennsylvania's resigned his seat. A special election to fill this vacancy was held on October 12, 1813. This was the first of two special elections held in the 3rd district in the 13th Congress (the 3rd district was a plural district with two seats).

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes^[1]	Percent
	Edward Crouch		Democratic-Republican	4,550	62.0%
	William Wallace		Federalist	2,790	38.0%

Crouch took his seat on December 6, 1813.^[2] With Gloninger's resignation, Pennsylvania had no Federalist representatives in Congress until the special elections in 1814 in the 2nd and 3rd districts both replaced Democratic-Republicans by Federalists.

See also

• List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cox . Harold E. . 13th Congress 18131815 . Wilkes University Election Statistics Project . January 13, 2007.
2. Web site: Thirteenth Congress March 4, 1813, to March 3, 1815 . December 18, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121213140702/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/13.pdf . December 13, 2012 . footnote 54