1822 South Carolina's 9th congressional district special election

On May 8, 1822, James Blair (DR) of South Carolina's 9th district resigned.^[1] A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy. Blair himself had been elected in a special election earlier in the same Congress.

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes^[2]	Percent
John Carter	Democratic-Republican	1,132	36.4%
James G. Spann		1,114	35.8%
John Waties		864	27.8%

Carter took his seat December 11, 1822.^[3]

References

^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 13, 2012. Retrieved December 14, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) footnote 56
^ "View Election". Archived from the original on February 17, 2013.
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 13, 2012. Retrieved December 14, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) footnote 57