1821 South Carolina's 9th congressional district special election

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In 1821, Representative-elect John S. Richards (DR), who'd been elected to represent South Carolina's 9th district , declined to serve. A special election was held to fill the resulting, the first of two special elections in the 9th district for the 17th Congress.

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Election results

CandidatePartyVotes [1] Percent
James Blair Democratic-Republican1,11649.1%
Joseph Brevard Democratic-Republican99143.6%
James C. Postell1657.3%

Blair took his seat at the start of the 17th Congress. Blair himself subsequently resigned May 8, 1822, [2] resulting in a second special election.

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References

  1. http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=sc.uscongress.kershaw.specialelection.1821%5B%5D
  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 56