1822 Maine's 2nd congressional district special election explained

The 1822 special election for Maine's 2nd congressional district was to select the successor for Representative Ezekiel Whitman (F), who resigned from his position on June 1, 1822. Mark Harris won the election, and took his seat on December 2, 1822.^[1]

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes^[2]	Percent
	Mark Harris		Democratic-Republican	1,385	55.5%
	George Bradbury		Federalist	1,042	41.8%
	Woodbury Storer		Democratic-Republican	67	2.7%

See also

• List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives
• 1822 and 1823 United States House of Representatives elections
• List of United States representatives from Maine

Notes and References

1. Web site: Seventeenth Congress . December 14, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121213144812/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/17.pdf . December 13, 2012 . footnote 19
2. Web site: Maine 1822 U.S. House of Representatives, District 2, Special . December 20, 2012 . dead . https://archive.today/20130106114936/http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=me.uscongress2.1822 . January 6, 2013 .