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In 1818, Uriel Holmes (F) of Connecticut's at-large district resigned from the House. A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy.

Election results edit

Candidate	Party	Votes^[1]	Percent
Sylvester Gilbert	Democratic-Republican	4,561	48.6%
Lyman Law	Federalist	2,232	23.8%
Asa Bacon, Jr.	Federalist	1,429	15.2%
Epaphroditus Champion	Federalist	661	7.0%
Lewis B. Sturges	Federalist	172	1.8%
Charles Dennison	Federalist	141	1.5%
Nathan Smith	Federalist	103	1.1%

Gilbert took his seat November 16, 1818^[2] at the start of the Second Session.

^ "Connecticut 1818 U.S. House of Representatives, Special". Tufts Digital Collations and Archives. A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825. Tufts University. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
^ "Fifteenth Congress March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1819". Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Retrieved November 2, 2018 – via History.house.gov., footnote 6