1816 Virginia's 18th congressional district special election

On July 4, 1816, Representative Thomas Gholson, Jr. (DR) of Virginia's 18th district died in office. A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy on October 10, 21-23, and 28, 1816 (each of the three districts within the 18th district held their election on a different day[1]).

Election results
Candidate Party Votes[2] Percent
Thomas M. Nelson Democratic-Republican 625 55.0%
James J. Harrison Federalist 512 45.0%

Nelson took his seat on December 4, 1816,[3] at the start of the 2nd session of the 14th Congress.

gollark: pls roll 1
gollark: ?
gollark: And how come it only rolls d6es.
gollark: So the limit is 12? How weird.
gollark: pls roll 13

See also

References
  1. http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=va.special.uscongress.18.1816#note_1%5B%5D
  2. http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=va.special.uscongress.18.1816%5B%5D
  3. http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/14.pdf Archived 2014-12-06 at the Wayback Machine footnote 74
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