1815 Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district special election

none February 2026 September 2023 On May 16, 1815, Representative-Elect Jonathan Williams (DR) who'd been elected for PA 1 Pennsylvania's 1st district, 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 VotesCox Harold E. 14th Congress 18151817 http://staffweb.wilkes.edu/harold.cox/rep/Congress%201814.pdf Wilkes University Election Statistics Project January 13, 2007 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, 1815http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/14.pdf 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 See also List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives References Pennsylvania 1815 01 Pennsylvania 1815 01 1815 01 Pennsylvania 01 United States House of Representatives 01 United States House of Representatives 1815 01