1813 Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district special election

On April 8, 1813, Representative Robert Whitehill (DR) of Pennsylvania's 5th district died in office. A special election was held on May 11, 1813^[1] to fill the vacancy left by his death.

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes[1]	Percent
John Rea	Democratic-Republican	2,534	55.7%
Edward Crawford	Federalist	2,011	44.3%

Rea took his seat on May 28, 1813.^[2]

See also

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

References

1. Cox, Harold E. (January 13, 2007). "13th Congress 1813–1815" (PDF). Wilkes University Election Statistics Project.
2. "Thirteenth Congress March 4, 1813, to March 3, 1815" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 13, 2012. Retrieved December 18, 2012. footnote 63