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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 (inc.) 10,044 47.87%
Populist William Brown 628 2.99%
Total votes 20,982 100%

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