1821 Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district special election

none February 2026 September 2023 On July 20, 1821, William Cox Ellis (F) from PA 10 Pennsylvania's 10th district resigned. A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy on October 9, 1821. Election results Candidate Party VotesCox Harold E. 17th Congress 18211823 http://staffweb.wilkes.edu/harold.cox/rep/Congress%201820.pdf Wilkes University Election Statistics Project January 14, 2007 Percent Thomas Murray, Jr. Democratic-Republican 6,038 50.3% William Cox Ellis Federalist 5,961 49.7% Murray took his seat on December 12, 1821.http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/17.pdf Seventeenth Congress March 4, 1821, to March 3, 1823 December 14, 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20121213144812/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/17.pdf December 13, 2012 Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives footnote 49 See also List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives References Pennsylvania 1821 10 Pennsylvania 1821 10 1821 10 Pennsylvania 10 United States House of Representatives 10 United States House of Representatives 1821 10