1823 New York's 28th congressional district special election

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On April 21, 1823, William B. Rochester (DR) of New York's 28th district was appointed judge of the Eighth Circuit Court and resigned his seat in the House. A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy.

Election results[]

Candidate Party Votes[1] Percent
William Woods Democratic-Republican 834 51.4%
Daniel Cruger Democratic-Republican 789 48.6%

Woods took his seat on December 1, 1823,[2] at the start of the 1st Session of the 18th Congress.

See also[]

  • List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives

References[]

  1. ^ http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=ny.congress.1823[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-12-25.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) footnote 24
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