By-election
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A by-election is an election used to fill an office that has become vacant between general elections.
A 1768 political cartoon about a by-election during the Middlesex election affair.
Democrat Morris Edelstein (left), Republican Louis Lefkowitz (center) and Communist Earl Browder, candidates in a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Democrat William I. Sirovich, sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at a "Democracy in Action" joint campaign meeting, January 30, 1940
The United States House of Representatives is a chamber of the bicameral United States Congress; it is the lower house, with the U.S. Senate being the upper house. Together, the House and Senate have
Thomas Brackett Reed, Republican House Speaker from 1895 to 1899.
U.S. congressional districts for the 115th Congress, 2017–2019