1823_New_York's_28th_congressional_district_special_election Knowpia

On April 21, 1823, William B. Rochester (DR) of New York's 28th district was appointed judge of the Eighth Circuit Court and resigned his seat in the House. A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy.

Election results edit

Candidate	Party	Votes^[1]	Percent
William Woods	Democratic-Republican	834	51.4%
Daniel Cruger	Democratic-Republican	789	48.6%

Woods took his seat on December 1, 1823,^[2] at the start of the 1st Session of the 18th Congress.

^ http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=ny.congress.1823^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 25, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) footnote 24