1821_North_Carolina's_4th_congressional_district_special_election Knowpia

On December 20, 1820, Jesse Slocumb (DR) of North Carolina's 4th district died.^[1] A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy

Election results edit

Candidate	Party	Votes^[2]	Percent
William S. Blackledge	Democratic-Republican	880	57.7%
Barnabus MacKinnie	^[3]	644	42.3%

Blackledge took office on February 7, 1821,^[4] near the end of the 16th Congress. He was also elected to the 17th Congress.

^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 9, 2013. Retrieved February 8, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) footnote 45
^ http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=nc.uscongress4.special.1821^{[permanent dead link]}
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^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 9, 2013. Retrieved February 8, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) footnote 46