| Election Name: | United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 1878 |
| Country: | Florida |
| Type: | legislative |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 1876 |
| Previous Year: | 1876 |
| Next Election: | United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 1880 |
| Next Year: | 1880 |
| Seats For Election: | Both of Florida's seats to the United States House of Representatives |
| Election Date: | November 5, 1878 |
| Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Last Election1: | 1 |
| Seats1: | 2 |
| Seat Change1: | 1 |
| Popular Vote1: | 21,169 |
| Percentage1: | 53.1% |
| Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Last Election2: | 1 |
| Seats2: | 0[1] |
| Seat Change2: | 1 |
| Popular Vote2: | 18,693 |
| Percentage2: | 46.9% |
| Flag Year: | 1868 |
Elections to the United States House of Representatives in Florida were held November 5, 1878 for the 46th Congress.
For the first few post-Reconstruction elections in Florida, the Republicans dominated Congressional elections. The previous election was the first election in which a Democrat won on the initial results (a Republican victory was successfully contested by a Democrat after the 1870 and 1874 elections). Going into the election, Florida's delegation was split between one Republican and one Democrat.
| District | colspan="3" | Democratic | colspan="3" | Republican | colspan="3" | Independent Republican | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [2] | Robert H. M. Davidson (I) | 11,529 | 56.8% | Simon B. Conover[3] | 8,601 | 40.9% | Edmund C. Weeks | 464 | 2.3% | ||||
| [4] | Noble A. Hull | 9,640 | 50.0% | Horatio Bisbee, Jr. (I) | 9,628 | 50.0% | |||||||
As in the 1874 and 1876 elections, the results in the 2nd district were successfully contested. This time, Horatio Bisbee, Jr. (R) successfully challenged the election of Noble A. Hull (D), and was declared with victor with a vote of 11,194 - 10,844,[5] serving in House January 22 - March 3, 1881