1821 South Carolina's 9th congressional district special election

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^[1]	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,^[2] resulting in a second special election.

References

^ http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=sc.uscongress.kershaw.specialelection.1821^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "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