1815 Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district special election explained

On March 12, 1815, a few days after the legal start of the 14th Congress, but long before the first meeting of that Congress, David Bard (DR), who'd been re-elected to the, died. A special election was held on October 10 to fill the vacancy left by his death.

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes[1]	Percent
	Thomas Burnside		Democratic-Republican	2,757	76.1%
	John Bratton		Federalist	865	24.9%

The 9th district did not change parties with this election. On December 11, Burnside took his seat in the 14th Congress. He would subsequently resign, in April, 1816,^[2] to accept a judicial position, resulting in a second special election. He thus served for only a few months as Representative.

See also

• List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cox . Harold E. . 14th Congress 18151817 . Wilkes University Election Statistics Project . January 13, 2007.
2. Web site: Fourteenth Congress March 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817 . February 19, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141206143055/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/14.pdf . Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives . December 6, 2014 . footnote 51