1816 North Carolina's 6th congressional district special election

none February 2026 September 2023 On December 15, 1815, having been elected to the Senate, Nathaniel Macon (DR) of NC 6 North Carolina's 6th district resigned. To fill the vacancy left in North Carolina's representation for the 14th Congress, a special election was held on January 22, 1816.http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=nc.uscongress6.specialelection.1816%23note_2 View Election elections.lib.tufts.edu 26 January 2022 https://archive.today/20130106112751/http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=nc.uscongress6.specialelection.1816%23note_2 6 January 2013 dead Election results Candidate Party Voteshttp://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=nc.uscongress6.specialelection.1816 View Election https://archive.today/20130106122443/http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=nc.uscongress6.specialelection.1816 6 January 2013 dead Percent Weldon N. Edwards Democratic-Republican 1,436 60.7% William P. Little Source does not give party affiliation 931 39.3% Edwards took his seat on February 7, 1816,http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/14.pdf Fourteenth Congress March 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817 Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives February 19, 2015 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20141206143055/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/14.pdf December 6, 2014 footnote 45 during the First Session of the 14th Congress. See also List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives 1816 and 1817 United States House of Representatives elections List of United States representatives from North Carolina References 1816 06 North Carolina 1816 06 North Carolina 06 North Carolina 06 United States House of Representatives 06 United States House of Representatives 1816 06