1797 Vermont's 2nd congressional district special election

1797 Vermont's 2nd congressional district special election

May 23, 1797

Candidate Lewis R. Morris Stephen Jacob Party Federalist Federalist Popular vote 1,033 246 Percentage 56.9% 13.6%   Candidate Nathaniel Niles Amasa Paine Party Democratic-Republican Federalist Popular vote 203 119 Percentage 11.2% 6.6%

Representative before election Daniel Buck Federalist Elected Representative Lewis R. Morris Federalist

A special election was held in Vermont's 2nd congressional district on May 23, 1797, to fill a vacancy left by Daniel Buck (F) declining to serve the term to which he'd been re-elected in the previous election.

Election results

1797 Vermont's 2nd congressional district special election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Federalist	Lewis R. Morris	1,033	56.91%
	Federalist	Stephen Jacob	246	13.55%
	Democratic-Republican	Nathaniel Niles	203	11.18%
	Federalist	Amasa Paine	119	6.56%
		Scattering	214	11.79%
Total votes			1,815	100.00%
	Federalist hold

See also

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