1823 New York's 28th congressional district special election

On April 21, 1823, William B. Rochester (DR) of New York's 28th district was appointed judge of the Eighth Circuit Court and resigned his seat in the House. A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy.

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes[1]	Percent
William Woods	Democratic-Republican	834	51.4%
Daniel Cruger	Democratic-Republican	789	48.6%

Woods took his seat on December 1, 1823,^[2] at the start of the 1st Session of the 18th Congress.

See also

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

References

1. http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=ny.congress.1823^{[permanent dead link]}
2. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 25, 2012. footnote 24