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1818 Connecticut's at-large congressional district special election
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In 1818, Uriel Holmes (F) of CT AL Connecticut's at-large district resigned from the House. A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy.
Election results
Candidate Party VotesConnecticut 1818 U.S. House of Representatives, Special https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/4x51hj76w January 23, 2019 Tufts University Tufts Digital Collations and Archives A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 Percent Sylvester Gilbert Democratic-Republican 4,561 48.6% Lyman Law Federalist 2,232 23.8% Asa Bacon, Jr. Federalist 1,429 15.2% Epaphroditus Champion Federalist 661 7.0% Lewis B. Sturges Federalist 172 1.8% Charles Dennison Federalist 141 1.5% Nathan Smith Federalist 103 1.1%
Gilbert took his seat November 16, 1818https://historycms2.house.gov/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=40205 https://web.archive.org/web/20181105202744/https://historycms2.house.gov/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=40205 dead November 5, 2018 Fifteenth Congress March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1819 November 2, 2018 Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives History.house.gov , footnote 6 at the start of the Second Session.
See also
List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives
References
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