Illinois elected its new member sometime in 1818, after gaining statehood.
District | Incumbent | This race | |||
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Member | Party | First elected | Results | Candidates | |
Illinois at-large | None (District created) | Illinois was admitted December 3, 1818. New member elected in 1818. Democratic-Republican gain. New member seated December 4, 1818 to finish the term ending March 3, 1819.[1] The next year, the new member lost re-election. |
√ John McLean (Democratic-Republican) 50.2% Daniel P. Cook (Democratic-Republican) 49.8% |
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edit- ^ "Fifteenth Congress March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1819". Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Retrieved November 2, 2018 – via History.house.gov.[permanent dead link ]