Jump to content

1822 South Carolina's 9th congressional district special election

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

On May 8, 1822, James Blair (DR) of South Carolina's 9th district resigned.[1] A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy. Blair himself had been elected in a special election earlier in the same Congress.

Election results

[edit]
Candidate Party Votes[2] Percent
John Carter Democratic-Republican 1,132 36.4%
James G. Spann 1,114 35.8%
John Waties 864 27.8%

Carter took his seat December 11, 1822.[3]

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 13, 2012. Retrieved December 14, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) footnote 56
  2. ^ "View Election". Archived from the original on February 17, 2013.
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 13, 2012. Retrieved December 14, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) footnote 57