1816 Virginia's 18th congressional district special election explained

On July 4, 1816, Representative Thomas Gholson, Jr. (DR) of died in office. A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy on October 10, 21–23, and 28, 1816 (each of the three districts within the 18th district held their election on a different day^[1]).

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes^[2]	Percent
	Thomas M. Nelson		Democratic-Republican	625	55.0%
	James J. Harrison		Federalist	512	45.0%

Nelson took his seat on December 4, 1816,^[3] at the start of the 2nd session 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=va.special.uscongress.18.1816#note_1{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
2. http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=va.special.uscongress.18.1816{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
3. http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/14.pdf footnote 74