The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], The election.

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The election.

--An election took place in this city yesterday for a member of the House of Delegates and for Commonwealth's Attorney of the Circuit Court, to fill vacancies occasioned by the death of Littleton Tazewell, Esq. The contest passed off very quietly, no disturbance having occurred in either ward; and Colonel Thomas J. Evans was elected to the House of Delegates and Major N. A. Sturdivant to the position of Commonwealth's Attorney by the following vote:

Candidates.	Jefferson Ward.	Madison Ward.	Monroe Ward.	Total.
Commonwealth's Attorney N. A. Sturdivant.	247	258	199	764
R. D. Ward.	16	15	24	55
Majority for Sturdivant				549
House of Delegates.	Thomas J. Evans	122	194	180	496
Thomas H. Wynne	136	84	52	272
Majority for Evans				224

Taking the vote for member of the House of Delegates as a guide, the total vote cast in the city was seven hundred and sixty-eight.

The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1865. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. December 22, 1865. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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