1816 New York's 20th congressional district special election

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On June 4, 1816, [1] after being defeated for re-election, Enos T. Throop (DR) of New York's 20th district resigned his seat. A special election was held in September of that year to fill the vacancy left for the remainder of the 14th Congress

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Election results

CandidatePartyVotes [2] Percent
Daniel Avery Democratic-Republican1,91552.8%
Charles Kellogg Democratic-Republican1,64145.2%
Others732.0%

Avery assumed his seat December 3 [3]

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  1. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-12-06. Retrieved 2015-02-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) footnote 29
  2. "View Election". Archived from the original on 6 January 2013.
  3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-12-06. Retrieved 2015-02-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) footnote 30