1822 New York's 9th congressional district special election
Elections in New York State |
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On January 14, 1822, Solomon Van Rensselaer (DR) of New York's 9th district resigned to accept a position as Postmaster of Albany. A special election was held February 25–27, 1822.
Election results[]
Candidate | Party | Votes[1] | Percent |
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Stephen Van Rensselaer | Federalist | 2,266 | 80.7% |
Solomon Southwick | Democratic-Republican ("Bucktail" faction) | 499 | 17.8% |
Others | 43 | 1.5% |
Rensselaer took his seat on March 12, 1822.[2]
See also[]
- List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives
References[]
- ^ http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=ny.specialelectioncongress9.1822[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-12-13. Retrieved 2012-12-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) footnote 38
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