1818 Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district special election

On April 20, 1818,^[1] Jacob Spangler (DR) resigned from Congress, where he'd represented Pennsylvania's 4th district. A special election was held that year to fill the resulting vacancy.^[2]

Election results[]

Candidate	Party	Votes^[3]^[4]	Percent
Jacob Hostetter	Democratic-Republican	771	49.7%
Samuel Bacon	Democratic-Republican	693	44.7%
John Clark	^[5]	88	5.7%

Hostetter took his seat on November 16^[6] at the start of the Second Session.

References[]

^ "Fifteenth Congress March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1819". Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Retrieved November 2, 2018 – via History.house.gov., footnote 44
^ The source used states that the election was held on March 17, but this would appear to be an error, as that's over a month before Spangler resigned.
^ Cox, Harold E. (January 6, 2007). "15th Congress 1817–1819" (PDF). Wilkes University Election Statistics Project.
^ "Pennsylvania 1818 U.S. House of Representatives, District 4, Special". Tufts Digital Collations and Archives. A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825. Tufts University. Retrieved January 24, 2019.
^ Source did not give party affiliation
^ "Fifteenth Congress March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1819". Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Retrieved November 2, 2018 – via History.house.gov., footnote 45

[1] "Fifteenth Congress March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1819". Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Retrieved November 2, 2018 – via History.house.gov., footnote 44

[2] The source used states that the election was held on March 17, but this would appear to be an error, as that's over a month before Spangler resigned.

[3] Cox, Harold E. (January 6, 2007). "15th Congress 1817–1819" (PDF). Wilkes University Election Statistics Project.

[4] "Pennsylvania 1818 U.S. House of Representatives, District 4, Special". Tufts Digital Collations and Archives. A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825. Tufts University. Retrieved January 24, 2019.

[5] Source did not give party affiliation

[6] "Fifteenth Congress March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1819". Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Retrieved November 2, 2018 – via History.house.gov., footnote 45

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1818 Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district special election

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