1816 North Carolina's 8th congressional district special election

On April 16, 1816, Richard Stanford (DR) of North Carolina's 8th district died in office.^[1] A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes[2]	Percent
Samuel Dickens	Democratic-Republican	2,487	52.2%
John Craig	Democratic-Republican	2,273	47.8%

Dickens took his seat December 2, 1816,^[3] at the start of the Second Session of the 14th Congress.

See also

• List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives
• 1816 and 1817 United States House of Representatives elections
• List of United States representatives from North Carolina