1826 Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district special election explained

On May 1, 1826, Alexander Thomson (J) of resigned.^[1] A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy on October 10, 1826, the same day as the general elections to the 20th Congress.

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes[2]	Percent
	Chauncey Forward		Jacksonian	2,597	65.3%
William Piper	[3]	1,378	34.7%

Forward took his seat on December 4, 1826, at the start of the Second Session of Congress.^[4]

See also

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nineteenth Congress March 4, 1825, to March 3, 1827 . March 13, 2022 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130309015521/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/19.pdf . March 9, 2013 . Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives . footnote 49
2. Web site: Cox . Harold E. . 19th Congress 18251827 . Wilkes University Election Statistics Project . January 14, 2007.
3. Source did not give party affiliation
4. Web site: Nineteenth Congress March 4, 1825, to March 3, 1827 . March 21, 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130309015521/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/19.pdf . March 9, 2013 . Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives . footnote 50