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1821 South Carolina's 9th congressional district special election

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In 1821, Representative-elect John S. Richards (DR), who'd been elected to represent South Carolina's 9th district, declined to serve. A special election was held to fill the resulting, the first of two special elections in the 9th district for the 17th Congress.

Election results

Candidate Party Votes Percent
James Blair Democratic-Republican 1,116 49.1%
Joseph Brevard Democratic-Republican 991 43.6%
James C. Postell 165 7.3%

Blair took his seat at the start of the 17th Congress. Blair himself subsequently resigned May 8, 1822, resulting in a second special election.

See also

References

  1. "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
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