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1809 Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district special election

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A special election was held in **** on October 10, 1809, to fill a vacancy left by the resignation of Representative Benjamin Say (DR) in June of that year.

Say, who had been elected in a special election the previous year, spent a little under a year in Congress, serving in the second session of the 10th Congress and the first session of the 11th Congress.

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes	Percent
	Adam Seybert		Democratic-Republican	5,936	59.5%
	Richard R. Smith		American-Republican	4,043	40.5%

Seybert took his seat November 27, 1809, at the start of the second session of the 11th Congress

References

[http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/10.pdf 10th Congress membership roster] {{webarchive. link. (2013-03-06)
[http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/11.pdf 11th Congress membership roster] {{webarchive. link. (2012-12-13)
[http://staffweb.wilkes.edu/harold.cox/rep/Congress%201808.pdf 11th Congress election results in Pennsylvania]

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