1822 Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district special election

none February 2026 September 2023 On May 20, 1822, Samuel Moore (DR) of PA 6 Pennsylvania's 6th district resigned.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 52 A special election was held on October 1, 1822, to fill the resulting vacancy. Election result 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 Samuel D. Ingham Democratic-Republican 6,131 60.5% Samuel Sitgreaves Federalist 4,002 39.5% Ingham took his seat on December 2, 1822.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 footenote 53 See also List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives References Pennsylvania 1822 06 Pennsylvania 1822 06 1822 06 Pennsylvania 06 United States House of Representatives 06 United States House of Representatives 1822 06