1818 Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district special election
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On April 20, 1818,{{cite web | url=https://historycms2.house.gov/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=40205 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105202744/https://historycms2.house.gov/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=40205 | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 5, 2018 | title=Fifteenth Congress March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1819 | access-date=November 2, 2018 | publisher=Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives | via=History.house.gov }}, footnote 44 Jacob Spangler (DR) resigned from Congress, where he had represented {{ushr|PA|4|Pennsylvania's 4th district}}. A special election was held that year to fill the resulting vacancy.The source used states that the election was held on March 17, but this would appear to be an error, as that is over a month before Spangler resigned.
Election results
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! Candidate ! Party ! Votes{{cite web |last1=Cox |first1=Harold E. |title=15th Congress 1817{{endash}}1819 |url=http://staffweb.wilkes.edu/harold.cox/rep/Congress%201816.pdf |website=Wilkes University Election Statistics Project |date=January 6, 2007}}{{cite web | title=Pennsylvania 1818 U.S. House of Representatives, District 4, Special | url=https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/pr76f464c | access-date=January 24, 2019 | publisher= Tufts University | work= Tufts Digital Collations and Archives | series= A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825}} ! Percent |
| {{Party shading/Democratic-Republican}} | Jacob Hostetter
| {{Party shading/Democratic-Republican}} | Democratic-Republican | 771 | 49.7% |
| {{Party shading/Democratic-Republican}} | Samuel Bacon
| {{Party shading/Democratic-Republican}} | Democratic-Republican | 693 | 44.7% |
| John Clark
| Source did not give party affiliation | 88 | 5.7% |
Hostetter took his seat on November 16{{cite web | url=https://historycms2.house.gov/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=40205 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105202744/https://historycms2.house.gov/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=40205 | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 5, 2018 | title=Fifteenth Congress March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1819 | access-date=November 2, 2018 | publisher=Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives | via=History.house.gov }}, footnote 45 at the start of the Second Session.
See also
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