Election Name: | 1896 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming |
Country: | Wyoming |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | No |
Previous Election: | 1894 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming |
Previous Year: | 1894 |
Next Election: | 1898 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming |
Next Year: | 1898 |
Nominee1: | John Eugene Osborne |
Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Popular Vote1: | 10,310 |
Percentage1: | 49.14% |
Nominee2: | Frank Wheeler Mondell |
Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
Popular Vote2: | 10,044 |
Percentage2: | 47.87% |
Map Size: | 250px |
U.S. Representative | |
Before Election: | Frank Wheeler Mondell |
Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
After Election: | John Eugene Osborne |
After Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
The Wyoming United States House election for 1896 was held on November 3, 1896. Democratic John Eugene Osborne defeated Republican incumbent Frank Wheeler Mondell with 49.14% of the vote making Mondell the third incumbent Representative from Wyoming to lose reelection and was the third time in a row that the incumbent had lost. It was the first time that the House election was won with only a plurality of the votes.