1821 South Carolina's 9th congressional district special election explained

In 1821, Representative-elect John S. Richards (DR), who'd been elected to represent, declined to serve. A special election was held to fill the resulting, the first of two special elections in the 9th district for the 17th Congress.

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes^[1]	Percent
	James Blair		Democratic-Republican	1,116	49.1%
	Joseph Brevard		Democratic-Republican	991	43.6%
James C. Postell		165	7.3%

Blair took his seat at the start of the 17th Congress. Blair himself subsequently resigned May 8, 1822,^[2] resulting in a second special election.

See also

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

Notes and References

1. http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=sc.uscongress.kershaw.specialelection.1821{{dead link|date=May 2018 |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 56