Election Name: | United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 1886 |
Country: | Florida |
Type: | legislative |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 1884 |
Previous Year: | 1884 |
Next Election: | United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 1888 |
Next Year: | 1888 |
Seats For Election: | Both of Florida's seats to the United States House of Representatives |
Election Date: | November 2, 1886 |
Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Last Election1: | 2 |
Seats1: | 2 |
Popular Vote1: | 33,383 |
Percentage1: | 58.6% |
Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
Last Election2: | 0 |
Seats2: | 0 |
Popular Vote2: | 23,152 |
Percentage2: | 40.6% |
Party3: | Prohibition Party (United States) |
Last Election3: | 0 |
Seats3: | 0 |
Popular Vote3: | 420 |
Percentage3: | 0.7% |
Flag Year: | 1868 |
The 1886 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida were held November 2, 1886 for the 50th Congress.
The previous elections had solidified Democratic domination of Florida's congressional delegation. Florida would be represented entirely by Democrats in both houses of Congress until 1954
Both incumbents ran successfully for re-election. This election marked the first appearance of the Prohibition Party in Florida's congressional elections.
District | colspan="3" | Democratic | colspan="3" | Republican | colspan="3" | Prohibition | |||||||
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[1] | Robert H. M. Davidson (I) | 14,493 | 66.2% | C. B. Pendleton[2] | 7,389 | 33.8% | |||||||
[3] | Charles Dougherty (I) | 18,890 | 53.9% | J. C. Greeley | 15,763 | 44.9% | R. B. Norment | 420 | 1.2% |