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1826 Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district special election
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On January 12, 1826, Patrick Farrelly (J) of PA 18 Pennsylvania's 18th district died in office.http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/19.pdf Nineteenth Congress March 4, 1825, to March 3, 1827 March 13, 2022 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20130309015521/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/19.pdf March 9, 2013 Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives footnote 45 A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy
Election results
Candidate Party VotesCox Harold E. 19th Congress 18251827 http://staffweb.wilkes.edu/harold.cox/rep/Congress%201824.pdf Wilkes University Election Statistics Project January 14, 2007 Percent Thomas H. Sill Anti-Jacksonian 1,812 39.8% Stephen Barlow Jacksonian 1,045 22.9% Samuel Hayes Party affiliation not given in source 937 20.6% Jacob Herrington 760 16.7%
Sill took his seat April 3, 1826, during the First Session.http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/19.pdf Nineteenth Congress March 4, 1825, to March 3, 1827 March 21, 2013 Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives dead https://web.archive.org/web/20130309015521/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/19.pdf March 9, 2013 footnote 46
See also
List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives
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