1818 Louisiana's at-large congressional district special election explained

On April 20, 1818, Thomas B. Robertson (DR) of resigned.^[1] A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy.

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes^[2]	Percent
	Thomas Butler		Democratic-Republican	1,866	45.1%
	Edward Livingston		Democratic-Republican	1,384	33.4%
Joseph Johnston	^[3]	810	19.6%
Fulwar Skipwith		62	1.5%

In addition, Robertson himself received 16 votes, presumably unsolicited. Butler took office on November 16^[4]

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 . November 2, 2018 . Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives . History.house.gov . footnote 18
2. Web site: Louisiana 1818 U.S. House of Representatives, Special . January 23, 2019 . . Tufts Digital Collations and Archives . A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825.
3. Party affiliation not given in source
4. Web site: Fifteenth Congress March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1819 . November 2, 2018 . Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives . History.house.gov . footnote 19