1816 North Carolina's 8th congressional district special election explained

On April 16, 1816, Richard Stanford (DR) of died in office.^[1] A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes^[2]	Percent
	Samuel Dickens		Democratic-Republican	2,487	52.2%
	John Craig		Democratic-Republican	2,273	47.8%

Dickens took his seat December 2, 1816,^[3] at the start of the Second Session of the 14th Congress.

See also

• List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives
• 1816 and 1817 United States House of Representatives elections
• List of United States representatives from North Carolina

Notes and References

1. Web site: Archived copy . February 19, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141206143055/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/14.pdf . December 6, 2014 . footnote 46
2. http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=nc.uscongress8.specialelection.1816{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
3. Web site: Archived copy . February 19, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141206143055/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/14.pdf . December 6, 2014 . footnote 47