1815 Virginia's 15th congressional district special election

On May 27, 1815, Representative Matthew Clay (DR) of Virginia's 15th district died in office before the start of the 1st session of the 14th Congress. A special election was held in October of that year to fill the resulting vacancy.

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes[1]	Percent
John Kerr	Democratic-Republican	560	44.0%
William Rice	Federalist	339	26.6%
Thomas Wooding	Democratic-Republican	250	19.6%
Isaac Medley	Democratic-Republican	94	7.4%
White[2]	Federalist	31	2.4%

Kerr had been defeated for re-election in the regular 1815 elections and took his seat December 5, 1815,^[3] at the start of the 1st session.

See also

• List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives