1818 North Carolina's 7th congressional district special election

On January 1, 1818,^[1] a special election was held in North Carolina's 7th district to fill a vacancy left by the death of Representative-elect Alexander McMillan (F) before the 15th Congress had assembled.^[2]

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes[1]	Percent
James Stewart	Federalist	1,719	40.6%
John Culpepper	Federalist	1,562	36.9%
Atlas Jones	Federalist	767	18.1%
James Gaines	[3]	137	3.2%
Joseph Winslow	Federalist	53	1.3%

Stewart took his seat on January 26^[4]

See also

• List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives
• 1818 and 1819 United States House of Representatives elections
• List of United States representatives from North Carolina

References

1. "North Carolina 1818 U.S. House of Representatives, District 7, Special". Tufts Digital Collations and Archives. A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825. Tufts University. Retrieved January 24, 2019.
2. "Fifteenth Congress March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1819". Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Retrieved November 2, 2018 – via History.house.gov.^{[permanent dead link‍]}, footnote 33
3. Party affiliation not given in source
4. "Fifteenth Congress March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1819". Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Retrieved November 2, 2018 – via History.house.gov.^{[permanent dead link‍]}, footnote 34