1886 Nebraska lieutenant gubernatorial election

The 1886 Nebraska lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1886, and featured incumbent Nebraska Lieutenant Governor Hibbard H. Shedd, a Republican, defeating Democratic nominee Charles J. Bowlby as well as Prohibition Party nominee E. B. Graham and National Union Party nominee M. K. Lewis.

The National Union Party was founded just prior to the election of 1886 and appears to have been a precursor to the later populist movement in Nebraska. One source refers to the party as the "anti-monopoly party." The party was very closely associated with various figures such as John H. Powers and Charles Van Wyck who were later prominent in the populist movement.

Candidates

 * Charles J. Bowlby, Democratic candidate, Democratic nominee for Nebraska Secretary of State in 1882, president of the Saline County Agricultural Society, and lawyer from Crete, Nebraska
 * Rev. E. B. Graham, Prohibition candidate, chairman of the Prohibition Party, and pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Omaha, Nebraska
 * M. K. Lewis, National Union candidate, chairman of the Nebraska National Union Party, first mayor of Hastings, Nebraska, and president of the company M. K. Lewis and Sons as well as the newly formed Hastings Manufacturing Company
 * Hibbard H. Shedd, Republican candidate, incumbent Nebraska Lieutenant Governor and former Speaker of the Nebraska House of Representatives from 1881 to 1883 from Ashland, Nebraska