1815 New York's 12th congressional district special election explained

On October 6, 1814, prior to the beginning of the Fourteenth Congress, Representative-elect Benjamin Pond (DR), who'd been elected to, died. A special election to fill this vacancy was held in April, 1815.

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes^[1]	Percent
	Asa Adgate		Democratic-Republican	4,247	50.8%
	Elisha I. Winter		Federalist	4,051	48.5%
Others		62	0.7%

Adgate took his seat at the beginning of the 14th Congress.

See also

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

References

1. http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=ny.specialelectioncongress12.1815{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}