1815 Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district special election explained

On May 16, 1815, Representative-Elect Jonathan Williams (DR) who'd been elected for, died before the start of the 14th Congress. A special election was held on October 10 of that year to fill the vacancy left by his death.

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes^[1]	Percent
	John Sergeant		Federalist	6,364	60.2%
	John Conard		Democratic-Republican	4,204	39.8%

Williams had been the sole Democratic-Republican elected to Pennsylvania's 1st district (a plural district with 4 seats), and so with Sergeant's win, all four of the 1st district's seats were held by Federalists. Sergeant took his seat in the Congress on December 6, 1815^[2]

See also

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cox . Harold E. . 14th Congress 18151817 . Wilkes University Election Statistics Project . January 13, 2007.
2. Web site: Fourteenth Congress March 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817 . February 2, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141206143055/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/14.pdf . Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives . December 6, 2014 . footnote 56