Election Name: | United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 1898 |
Country: | Florida |
Type: | legislative |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 1896 |
Previous Year: | 1896 |
Next Election: | United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 1900 |
Next Year: | 1900 |
Seats For Election: | Both of Florida's seats to the United States House of Representatives |
Election Date: | November 8, 1898 |
Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Last Election1: | 2 |
Seats1: | 2 |
Popular Vote1: | 25,656 |
Percentage1: | 77.8% |
Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
Last Election2: | 0 |
Seats2: | 0 |
Popular Vote2: | 7,316 |
Percentage2: | 22.2% |
Flag Year: | 1868 |
Elections to the United States House of Representatives in Florida for two seats in the 56th Congress were held November 8, 1898
The previous election year had seen a total of five parties contesting Florida's two seats, including the Republican Party, which had been absent in 1892 and 1894. Both seats were won by the Democratic incumbents by a large majority. The previous three elections had seen Populist candidates as well, but, mirroring the national decline of that party, there were no Populist candidates in 1896.
District | colspan="3" | Democratic | colspan="3" | Republican | ||||||
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[1] | Stephen M. Sparkman (I) | 13,506 | 84.2% | E. R. Gunby[2] | 2,543 | 15.8% | ||||
[3] | Robert Wyche Davis (I) | 12,150 | 71.8% | H. L. Anderson | 4,773 | 28.2% |