Election Name: | United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 1896 |
Country: | Florida |
Type: | legislative |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 1894 |
Previous Year: | 1894 |
Next Election: | United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 1898 |
Next Year: | 1898 |
Seats For Election: | Both of Florida's seats to the United States House of Representatives |
Election Date: | November 3, 1896 |
Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Last Election1: | 2 |
Seats1: | 2 |
Popular Vote1: | 30,355[1] |
Percentage1: | 71.7% |
Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
Last Election2: | 0 |
Seats2: | 0 |
Popular Vote2: | 9,431 |
Percentage2: | 22.3% |
Party3: | Populist Party (United States) |
Last Election3: | 0 |
Seats3: | 0 |
Popular Vote3: | 2,163 |
Percentage3: | 5.1% |
Flag Year: | 1868 |
Elections to the United States House of Representatives in Florida were held November 3, 1896 for two seats in the 55th Congress. These elections were held at the same time as the 1896 Presidential election and the election for Governor.
There were a total of five different parties running, including a short-lived breakaway faction of the Democratic Party known as the National Democratic Party.
The previous two elections had involved only the Democratic and People's Parties. The Republicans returned to Floridian congressional elections in this race, as did the Prohibition Party, which had last run a candidate for Congress in Florida in 1886.
Charles Merian Cooper (D) of the did not run for renomination.
District | colspan="3" | Democratic | colspan="3" | National Democratic[2] | colspan="3" | Republican | colspan="3" | Populist | colspan="3" | Prohibition | |||||||||
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[3] | Stephen M. Sparkman (I) | 14,823 | 77.5% | E. K. Nichols[4] | 2,797 | 14.6% | J. Asakiah Williams | 1,308 | 6.8% | J. C. Green | 201 | 1.1% | |||||||
[5] | Robert Wyche Davis | 14,376 | 61.9% | Daniel G. Ambler | 1,156 | 5.0% | Joseph N. Stripling | 6,634 | 28.6% | William R. Peterson | 855 | 3.7% | M. E. Spencer | 195 | 0.8% |