1816_Ohio's_1st_congressional_district_special_election Knowpia

In April, 1816, John McLean (DR) of Ohio's 1st district resigned. A special election was called to fill the resulting vacancy.

Election results edit

Candidate	Party	Votes^[1]	Percent
William Henry Harrison^[2]	Democratic-Republican	3,370	58.6%
Thomas R. Ross	Democratic-Republican	1,783	31.0%
William C. Schenck	Federalist	351	6.1%
William Corry	Federalist	112	1.9%
Matthias Ross	Democratic-Republican	91	1.6%
Ethan A. Brown	Democratic-Republican	40	0.7%

Harrison took his seat on December 2, 1816^[3]

^ http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=oh.uscongress1.vacancy.1816^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Previously served as delegate from the Northwest Territory, later served as President
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 6, 2014. Retrieved February 19, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) footnote 49