1822 New York's 9th congressional district special election

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On January 14, 1822, Solomon Van Rensselaer (DR) of New York's 9th district resigned to accept a position as Postmaster of Albany. A special election was held February 25–27, 1822.

Election results

Candidate Party Votes[1] Percent
Stephen Van Rensselaer Federalist 2,266 80.7%
Solomon Southwick Democratic-Republican ("Bucktail" faction) 499 17.8%
Others 43 1.5%

Rensselaer took his seat on March 12, 1822.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=ny.specialelectioncongress9.1822[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "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 38