1821 Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district special election explained

On July 20, 1821, William Cox Ellis (F) from resigned. A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy on October 9, 1821.

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes[1]	Percent
	Thomas Murray, Jr.		Democratic-Republican	6,038	50.3%
	William Cox Ellis		Federalist	5,961	49.7%

Murray took his seat on December 12, 1821.^[2]

See also

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

References

1. Web site: Cox . Harold E. . 17th Congress 18211823 . Wilkes University Election Statistics Project . January 14, 2007.
2. Web site: Seventeenth Congress March 4, 1821, to March 3, 1823 . December 14, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121213144812/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/17.pdf . December 13, 2012 . Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives . footnote 49