1826 Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district special election

On May 1, 1826, Alexander Thomson (J) of Pennsylvania's 13th district 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 edit

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]

^ (PDF). Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 9, 2013. Retrieved March 13, 2022. footnote 49
^ Cox, Harold E. (January 14, 2007). "19th Congress 1825–1827" (PDF). Wilkes University Election Statistics Project.
^ Source did not give party affiliation
^ (PDF). Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 9, 2013. Retrieved March 21, 2013. footnote 50

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