1818 Connecticut's at-large congressional district special election

In 1818, Uriel Holmes (F) of Connecticut's at-large district resigned from the House. A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy.

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes[1]	Percent
Sylvester Gilbert	Democratic-Republican	4,561	48.6%
Lyman Law	Federalist	2,232	23.8%
Asa Bacon, Jr.	Federalist	1,429	15.2%
Epaphroditus Champion	Federalist	661	7.0%
Lewis B. Sturges	Federalist	172	1.8%
Charles Dennison	Federalist	141	1.5%
Nathan Smith	Federalist	103	1.1%

Gilbert took his seat November 16, 1818^[2] at the start of the Second Session.

See also

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

References

1. "Connecticut 1818 U.S. House of Representatives, Special". Tufts Digital Collations and Archives. A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825. Tufts University. Retrieved January 23, 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 6