1816 Ohio's 1st congressional district special election explained

In April, 1816, John McLean (DR) of resigned. A special election was called to fill the resulting vacancy.

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes^[1]	Percent
	William Henry Harrison^[2]		Democratic-Republican	3,370	58.6%
	Thomas R. Ross		Democratic-Republican	1,783	31.0%
	William C. Schenck		Federalist	351	6.1%
	William Corry		Federalist	112	1.9%
	Matthias Ross		Democratic-Republican	91	1.6%
	Ethan A. Brown		Democratic-Republican	40	0.7%

Harrison took his seat on December 2, 1816^[3]

See also

List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives

References

http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=oh.uscongress1.vacancy.1816{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Previously served as delegate from the Northwest Territory, later served as President
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 49