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1896 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida

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Field	Value
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
seat_change1
popular_vote1	30,355
percentage1	71.7%
party2	Republican Party (United States)
last_election2	0
seats2	0
seat_change2
popular_vote2	9,431
percentage2	22.3%
party3	Populist Party (United States)
last_election3	0
seats3	0
seat_change3
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.

Background

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.

Election results

Charles Merian Cooper (D) of the did not run for renomination.

District	Democratic	National Democratic	Republican	Populist	Prohibition
		Stephen M. Sparkman (I)		14,823		77.5%		E. K. Nichols
		Robert Wyche Davis		14,376		61.9%	Daniel G. Ambler	1,156

References

Including National Democrats
Also known as the "Gold Democrats"
[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=288005 District 1 results]
Source did not give full name
[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=288006 District 2 results]

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