1799 New Hampshire's at-large congressional district special election explained

A special election was held in on November 18, 1799, to replace a vacancy caused by Peleg Sprague (F) declining to serve in the 6th Congress.

Election result

Candidate	Party	Votes^[1]	Percent
James Sheafe	Federalist	3,605	69.3%
Woodbury Langdon	Democratic-Republican	723	13.9%
Jeremiah Mason	Federalist	131	2.5%
John Prentice	Federalist	105	2.0%
Others		641	12.3%

Sheafe took his seat with the rest of the 6th Congress when the 1st session began on December 2, 1799

See also

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

References

1. http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=713667 New Hampshire At-large Special Election Race from Ourcampaigns.com