Augustus Maxwell Democratic George Sydney Hawkins Democratic The 1856 United States House of Representatives election in Florida was held on Monday, October 6, 1856, to elect the single United States Representative from the state of Florida, one from the state's single at-large congressional district, to represent Florida in the 35th Congress.

Florida's single seat in the House of Representatives had been held by the Democrats since 1852.

In the 1854 election, the Democratic Party made key gains in the former Whig strongholds of Pensacola and Jacksonville.

Baker campaigned heavily alongside the Know Nothing candidates for president and governor, former President Millard Fillmore and former Tallahassee Mayor David S. Walker, respectively.

This put Baker, a political unknown, at a severe disadvantage to Hawkins, who was a popular judge throughout the state.