1807_Massachusetts's_12th_congressional_district_special_election Knowpia

A special election was held in Massachusetts's 12th congressional district in 1807 to fill a vacancy left by the resignation of Barnabas Bidwell (DR), who had been appointed Massachusetts Attorney General on July 13 of that year.

Election results edit

Candidate	Party	Votes^[1]	Percent
Ezekiel Bacon	Democratic-Republican	949	88.7%
Daniel Dewey	Federalist	121	11.3%

Bacon took his seat on November 2, 1807.^[2]

^ Vote record from Ourcampaigns.com
^ Membership roster for the 10th Congress from the House of Representatives' website Archived 2013-03-06 at the Wayback Machine