1815 Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district special election

none February 2026 September 2023 On March 12, 1815, a few days after the legal start of the 14th Congress, but long before the first meeting of that Congress, David Bard (DR), who'd been re-elected to the PA 9 9th district, died. A special election was held on October 10 to fill the vacancy left by his death. Election results Candidate Party VotesCox Harold E. 14th Congress 18151817 https://staffweb.wilkes.edu/harold.cox/rep/Congress%201814.pdf Wilkes University Election Statistics Project January 13, 2007 Percent Thomas Burnside Democratic-Republican 2,757 76.1% John Bratton Federalist 865 24.9% The 9th district did not change parties with this election. On December 11, Burnside took his seat in the 14th Congress. He would subsequently resign, in April, 1816,http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/14.pdf Fourteenth Congress March 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817 February 19, 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 51 to accept a judicial position, resulting in a second special election. He thus served for only a few months as Representative. See also List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives References Pennsylvania 1815 09 Pennsylvania 1815 09 1815 09 Pennsylvania 09 United States House of Representatives 09 United States House of Representatives 1815 09