1815_New_York's_12th_congressional_district_special_election Knowpia

On October 6, 1814, prior to the beginning of the Fourteenth Congress, Representative-elect Benjamin Pond (DR), who'd been elected to New York's 12th district, died. A special election to fill this vacancy was held in April, 1815.

Election results edit

Candidate	Party	Votes^[1]	Percent
Asa Adgate	Democratic-Republican	4,247	50.8%
Elisha I. Winter	Federalist	4,051	48.5%
Others		62	0.7%

Adgate took his seat at the beginning of the 14th Congress.

References edit

^ http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=ny.specialelectioncongress12.1815^{[permanent dead link]}

[1] ttp://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=ny.specialelectioncongress12.1815^{[permanent dead link]}

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