1815 Virginia's 15th congressional district special election explained

On May 27, 1815, Representative Matthew Clay (DR) of died in office before the start of the 1st session of the 14th Congress. A special election was held in October of that year to fill the resulting vacancy.

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes^[1]	Percent
	John Kerr		Democratic-Republican	560	44.0%
	William Rice		Federalist	339	26.6%
	Thomas Wooding		Democratic-Republican	250	19.6%
	Isaac Medley		Democratic-Republican	94	7.4%
	White^[2]		Federalist	31	2.4%

Kerr had been defeated for re-election in the regular 1815 elections and took his seat December 5, 1815,^[3] at the start of the 1st session.

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=va.uscongress.15.special.1815{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
2. Source did not give full name
3. http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/14.pdf footnote 69