North Carolina's 4th congressional district special election, 1795

A special election was held in North Carolina's 4th congressional district on August 4, 1795 to fill a vacancy left by the death of Alexander Mebane (DR) on July 5, 1795, before the start of the 1st session of the 4th Congress.

Election results

Complete results are not available, the below results are based on incomplete returns

Candidate Party Votes[1] Percent
Absalom Tatom Democratic-Republican 66 27.7%
Ambrose Ramsey Federalist 65 27.3%
Richard Stanford Democratic-Republican 60 25.2%
George Roberts Unknown 29 12.2%
William Shepard Federalist 18 7.6%

Tatom took his seat at the start of the 4th Congress, on December 7, 1795. Tatom subsequently resigned at the end of the 1st session, on June 1, 1796[2] necessitating a second special election in the same district.

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