1816 Georgia's at-large congressional district special election explained

In December 1816, a special election was held in Georgia's to fill a vacancy left by the resignation of Alfred Cuthbert (DR) on November 9. Cuthbert himself had been elected in a special election in 1813.

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes^[1]	Percent
	Zadock Cook		Democratic-Republican	1,167	39.5%
Thomas U.P. Charlton	^[2]	1,130	38.3%
Moore^[3]		372	12.6%
Walker		285	9.6%

Cook took his seat in Congress on January 23, 1817.^[4]

See also

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: View Election . 2012-12-20 . https://archive.today/20130106113713/http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=ga.specialuscongress.1816 . 2013-01-06 . dead .
2. Party affiliation not given in source, presumably Democratic-Republican given the near-non-existence of the Federalist Party in Georgia in this time period
3. Full name not given in source
4. Web site: Archived copy . 2015-02-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141206143055/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/14.pdf . 2014-12-06 . footnote 7