1821 Kentucky's 8th congressional district special election

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On October 13, 1821, before the first meeting of the 17th Congress, Wingfield Bullock (DR) of Kentucky's 8th district died. A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy.

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Election result

CandidatePartyVotes [1] Percent
James D. Breckinridge Democratic-Republican1,68556.3%
George B. Knight [2] 1,17339.2%
Norborne B. Beall [2] 1334.4%

Breckinridge took his seat on January 2, 1822, [3] a month into the 1st Session of the 17th Congress.

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References

  1. ↑ View Election
  2. 1 2 Source did not provide party affiliation
  3. ↑ "Seventeenth Congress March 4, 1821, to March 3, 1823" (PDF). Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 13, 2012. Retrieved December 14, 2012. footnote 15
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