1825_North_Carolina's_2nd_congressional_district_special_election Knowpia

On March 23, 1824, Hutchins G. Burton (DR), who had represented North Carolina's 2nd district, resigned upon being elected Governor. A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy on January 6, 1825

Election results edit

Candidate	Party	Votes^[1]	Percent
George Outlaw	Democratic-Republican	1,132	55.7%
Willis Alston	Democratic-Republican	899	44.2%

There were, in addition, 3 scattering votes.

^ http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=nc.uscongress2.specialelection.1825^{[permanent dead link]}