1818 North Carolina's 7th congressional district special election explained

On January 1, 1818,^[1] a special election was held in to fill a vacancy left by the death of Representative-elect Alexander McMillan (F) before the 15th Congress had assembled.^[2]

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes	Percent
	James Stewart		Federalist	1,719	40.6%
	John Culpepper		Federalist	1,562	36.9%
	Atlas Jones		Federalist	767	18.1%
James Gaines	^[3]	137	3.2%
	Joseph Winslow		Federalist	53	1.3%

Stewart took his seat on January 26^[4]

See also

• List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives
• 1818 and 1819 United States House of Representatives elections
• List of United States representatives from North Carolina

Notes and References

1. Web site: North Carolina 1818 U.S. House of Representatives, District 7, Special . January 24, 2019 . . Tufts Digital Collations and Archives . A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825.
2. 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 33
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 34