1818 Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district special election

none February 2026 September 2023 On April 20, 1818,https://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 44 Jacob Spangler (DR) resigned from Congress, where he had represented PA 4 Pennsylvania's 4th district. A special election was held that year to fill the resulting vacancy.The source used states that the election was held on March 17, but this would appear to be an error, as that is over a month before Spangler resigned. Election results Candidate Party VotesCox Harold E. 15th Congress 18171819 http://staffweb.wilkes.edu/harold.cox/rep/Congress%201816.pdf Wilkes University Election Statistics Project January 6, 2007Pennsylvania 1818 U.S. House of Representatives, District 4, Special https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/pr76f464c January 24, 2019 Tufts University Tufts Digital Collations and Archives A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 Percent Jacob Hostetter Democratic-Republican 771 49.7% Samuel Bacon Democratic-Republican 693 44.7% John Clark Source did not give party affiliation 88 5.7% Hostetter took his seat on November 16https://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 45 at the start of the Second Session. See also List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives References Pennsylvania 1818 04 Pennsylvania 1818 04 1818 04 Pennsylvania 04 United States House of Representatives 04 United States House of Representatives 1818 04 Category:April 1818