1896 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming

1896 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming
	November 3, 1896
	November 3, 1896
U.S. Representative before election; Frank Wheeler Mondell; Republican	Elected U.S. Representative ; John Eugene Osborne; Democratic

The Wyoming United States House election for 1896 was held on November 3, 1896. Democratic John Eugene Osborne defeated Republican incumbent Frank Wheeler Mondell with 49.14% of the vote making Mondell the third incumbent Representative from Wyoming to lose reelection and was the third time in a row that the incumbent had lost. It was the first time that the House election was won with only a plurality of the votes.

Results

United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming, 1896[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	John Eugene Osborne	10,310	49.14%
	Republican	Frank Wheeler Mondell	10,044	47.87%
	People's	William Brown	628	2.99%
Total votes			20,982	100%

References

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