1821_Pennsylvania's_10th_congressional_district_special_election Knowpia

On July 20, 1821, William Cox Ellis (F) from Pennsylvania's 10th district resigned. A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy on October 9, 1821.

Election results edit

Candidate	Party	Votes^[1]	Percent
Thomas Murray, Jr.	Democratic-Republican	6,038	50.3%
William Cox Ellis	Federalist	5,961	49.7%

Murray took his seat on December 12, 1821.^[2]

^ Cox, Harold E. (January 14, 2007). "17th Congress 1821–1823" (PDF). Wilkes University Election Statistics Project.
^ "Seventeenth Congress March 4, 1821, to March 3, 1823" (PDF). Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 13, 2012. Retrieved December 14, 2012. footnote 49