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Both of Florida's seats to theUnited States House of Representatives | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elections to theUnited States House of Representatives inFlorida were held November 3, 1896 for two seats in the55th Congress. These elections were held at the same time as the1896 Presidential election and the election forGovernor.
There were a total of five different parties running, including a short-lived breakaway faction of theDemocratic Party known as theNational Democratic Party.
The previous two elections had involved only the Democratic andPeople's Parties. The Republicans returned to Floridian congressional elections in this race, as did theProhibition Party, which had last run a candidate for Congress in Florida in1886.
Charles Merian Cooper (D) of the2nd district did not run for renomination.
| District | Democratic | National Democratic[2] | Republican | Populist | Prohibition | ||||||||||
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| 1st[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[4] | 201 | 1.1% | |||
| 2nd[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[4] | 195 | 0.8% |
