1817 Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district special election explained

In the 1816 elections in Pennsylvania, David Scott (DR) won one of the two seats in the, but resigned before the 15th Congress began, having been appointed judge of the court of common pleas.^[1] A special election was held on October 14, 1817, to fill the resulting vacancy.

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes^[2]	Percent
	John Murray		Democratic-Republican	8,333	71.0%
	Abram Light		Federalist	3,411	29.0%

Murray took his seat on December 1, 1817, at the start of the 1st session of the 15th Congress^[3]

See also

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fifteenth Congress March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1819 . December 24, 2012 . dead . Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives . https://web.archive.org/web/20121213140713/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/15.pdf . December 13, 2012 . footnote 42
2. Web site: Cox . Harold E. . 15th Congress 18171819 . Wilkes University Election Statistics Project . January 6, 2007.
3. Web site: Fifteenth Congress March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1819 . December 24, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121213140713/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/15.pdf . Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives . December 13, 2012 . footnote 43