1818 Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district special election explained

On April 20, 1818,^[1] Jacob Spangler (DR) resigned from Congress, where he'd represented . A special election was held that year to fill the resulting vacancy.^[2]

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes^[3] ^[4]	Percent
	Jacob Hostetter		Democratic-Republican	771	49.7%
	Samuel Bacon		Democratic-Republican	693	44.7%
John Clark	^[5]	88	5.7%

Hostetter took his seat on November 16^[6] at the start of the Second Session.

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 44
2. The source used states that the election was held on March 17, but this would appear to be an error, as that's over a month before Spangler resigned.
3. Web site: Cox . Harold E. . 15th Congress 18171819 . Wilkes University Election Statistics Project . January 6, 2007.
4. Web site: Pennsylvania 1818 U.S. House of Representatives, District 4, Special . January 24, 2019 . . Tufts Digital Collations and Archives . A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825.
5. Source did not give party affiliation
6. 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 45