1821 South Carolina's 9th congressional district special election

none February 2026 September 2023 In 1821, Representative-elect John S. Richards (DR), who'd been elected to represent SC 9 South Carolina's 9th district, declined to serve. A special election was held to fill the resulting, the first of two special elections in the 9th district for the 17th Congress. Election results Candidate Party Voteshttps://archive.today/20130217102047/http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=sc.uscongress.kershaw.specialelection.1821 Percent James Blair Democratic-Republican 1,116 49.1% Joseph Brevard Democratic-Republican 991 43.6% James C. Postell 165 7.3% Blair took his seat at the start of the 17th Congress. Blair himself subsequently resigned May 8, 1822,http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/17.pdf Seventeenth Congress March 4, 1821, to March 3, 1823 Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives 2012-12-14 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20121213144812/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/17.pdf 2012-12-13 footnote 56 resulting in a second special election. See also List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives References South Carolina 1821 09 South Carolina 1821 09 1821 09 South Carolina 09 United States House of Representatives 09 United States House of Representatives 1821 09