1822 Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district special election explained

On May 20, 1822, Samuel Moore (DR) of resigned.^[1] A special election was held on October 1, 1822, to fill the resulting vacancy.

Election result

Candidate	Party	Votes^[2]	Percent
	Samuel D. Ingham		Democratic-Republican	6,131	60.5%
	Samuel Sitgreaves		Federalist	4,002	39.5%

Ingham took his seat on December 2, 1822.^[3]

See also

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Seventeenth Congress March 4, 1821, to March 3, 1823 . December 14, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121213144812/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/17.pdf . December 13, 2012 . Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives . footnote 52
2. Web site: Cox . Harold E. . 17th Congress 18211823 . Wilkes University Election Statistics Project . January 14, 2007.
3. Web site: Seventeenth Congress March 4, 1821, to March 3, 1823 . December 14, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121213144812/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/17.pdf . December 13, 2012 . Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives . footenote 53