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1878 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida

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Field	Value
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
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.

Background

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.

Election results

District	Democratic	Republican	Independent Republican
		Robert H. M. Davidson (I)		11,529		56.8%
		Noble A. Hull		9,640		50.0%

Contested election

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, serving in House January 22 - March 3, 1881

References

Democratic victor successfully challenged in 2nd district
[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=287238 District 1 results]
[[United States Senate. Senator]]
[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=287241 District 2 results]
[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=287244 Recount]

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