1822 New York's 9th congressional district special election explained

On January 14, 1822, Solomon Van Rensselaer (DR) of resigned to accept a position as Postmaster of Albany. A special election was held February 25–27, 1822.

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes^[1]	Percent
	Stephen Van Rensselaer		Federalist	2,266	80.7%
	Solomon Southwick		Democratic-Republican ("Bucktail" faction)	499	17.8%
Others		43	1.5%

Rensselaer took his seat on March 12, 1822.^[2]

See also

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

References

1. http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=ny.specialelectioncongress9.1822{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
2. Web site: Archived copy . 2012-12-14 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121213144812/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/17.pdf . 2012-12-13 . footnote 38