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1795 South Carolina's 2nd congressional district special election
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A special election was held in SC 2 January 19–20, 1795 to fill a vacancy left by Representative-elect John Barnwell (F) declining to serve the term for which he had been elected.
Election results
Candidate Party VotesA New Nation Votes https://archive.today/20130106120951/http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=sc.uscongress.specialelection.1795 2013-01-06 Percent Wade Hampton Democratic-Republican 198 29.3% William Thompson Party affiliation not given in source 176 26.0% John Rutledge, Jr. Federalist 160 23.7% William Elliot 140 20.7% Andrew Hartley 2 0.3%
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