1826_Pennsylvania's_13th_congressional_district_special_election Knowpia

On May 1, 1826, Alexander Thomson (J) of Pennsylvania's 13th district resigned.^[1] A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy on October 10, 1826, the same day as the general elections to the 20th Congress.

Election results edit

Candidate	Party	Votes^[2]	Percent
Chauncey Forward	Jacksonian	2,597	65.3%
William Piper	^[3]	1,378	34.7%

Forward took his seat on December 4, 1826, at the start of the Second Session of Congress.^[4]

^ "Nineteenth Congress March 4, 1825, to March 3, 1827" (PDF). Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 9, 2013. Retrieved March 13, 2022. footnote 49
^ Cox, Harold E. (January 14, 2007). "19th Congress 1825–1827" (PDF). Wilkes University Election Statistics Project.
^ Source did not give party affiliation
^ "Nineteenth Congress March 4, 1825, to March 3, 1827" (PDF). Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 9, 2013. Retrieved March 21, 2013. footnote 50