Elections in Florida
Elections in Florida |
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Elections in Florida are held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November in even-numbered years, as provided for in Article 6 of the
In a 2020 study, Florida was ranked as the 11th hardest state for citizens to vote in.[2]
All citizens of the United States, over the age of eighteen and who are permanent residents of the state, may register to vote as a qualified
Year | Democratic
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Republican
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1952 | 74.8% 624,463 | 25.2% 210,009 |
1956 | 73.7% 747,753 | 26.3% 266,980 |
1960 | 59.8% 849,407 | 40.1% 569,936 |
1964
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56.1% 933,554 | 41.3% 686,297 |
1966
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44.9% 668,233 | 55.1% 821,190 |
1970
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56.9% 984,305 | 43.1% 746,243 |
1974
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61.2% 1,118,954 | 38.8% 709,438 |
1978
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55.6% 1,406,580 | 44.4% 1,123,888 |
1982
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64.7% 1,739,553 | 35.3% 949,013 |
1986
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45.4% 1,538,620 | 54.6% 1,847,525 |
1990
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56.5% 1,995,206 | 43.5% 1,535,068 |
1994
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50.8% 2,135,008 | 49.2% 2,071,068 |
1998
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44.7% 1,773,054 | 55.3% 2,191,105 |
2002
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43.2% 2,201,427 | 56.0% 2,856,845 |
2006
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45.1% 2,178,289 | 52.2% 2,519,845 |
2010
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47.7% 2,557,785 | 48.9% 2,619,335 |
2014
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47.1% 2,801,198 | 48.1% 2,865,343 |
2018
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49.2% 4,043,723 | 49.6% 4,076,186 |
2022
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40.0% 3,105,469 | 59.4% 4,613,783 |
State elections
The
Candidates for the
Voters determine whether judges at the state level should be retained, at the end of their respective term. Since this law was enacted in 1974, no judge has ever been removed from office by failure of retention.[4]
Florida in national elections
Florida received international attention for its role in the
Florida held its 2008
History
Year | Republican / Whig | Democratic | Third party | |||
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No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | |
2020 | 5,668,731 | 51.11% | 5,297,045 | 47.76% | 125,982 | 1.14% |
2016 | 4,617,886 | 48.60% | 4,504,975 | 47.41% | 379,886 | 4.00% |
2012 | 4,163,447 | 49.03% | 4,237,756 | 49.90% | 90,972 | 1.07% |
2008 | 4,046,219 | 48.10% | 4,282,367 | 50.91% | 83,662 | 0.99% |
2004 | 3,964,522 | 52.10% | 3,583,544 | 47.09% | 61,744 | 0.81% |
2000 | 2,912,790 | 48.85% | 2,912,253 | 48.84% | 138,067 | 2.32% |
1996 | 2,244,536 | 42.32% | 2,546,870 | 48.02% | 512,388 | 9.66% |
1992 | 2,173,310 | 40.89% | 2,072,698 | 39.00% | 1,068,384 | 20.10% |
1988 | 2,618,885 | 60.87% | 1,656,701 | 38.51% | 26,727 | 0.62% |
1984 | 2,730,350 | 65.32% | 1,448,816 | 34.66% | 885 | 0.02% |
1980 | 2,046,951 | 55.52% | 1,419,475 | 38.50% | 220,600 | 5.98% |
1976 | 1,469,531 | 46.64% | 1,636,000 | 51.93% | 45,100 | 1.43% |
1972 | 1,857,759 | 71.91% | 718,117 | 27.80% | 7,407 | 0.29% |
1968 | 886,804 | 40.53% | 676,794 | 30.93% | 624,207 | 28.53% |
1964 | 905,941 | 48.85% | 948,540 | 51.15% | 0 | 0.00% |
1960 | 795,476 | 51.51% | 748,700 | 48.49% | 0 | 0.00% |
1956 | 643,849 | 57.27% | 480,371 | 42.73% | 0 | 0.00% |
1952 | 544,036 | 54.99% | 444,950 | 44.97% | 351 | 0.04% |
1948 | 194,280 | 33.63% | 281,988 | 48.82% | 101,375 | 17.55% |
1944 | 143,215 | 29.68% | 339,377 | 70.32% | 0 | 0.00% |
1940 | 126,158 | 25.99% | 359,334 | 74.01% | 0 | 0.00% |
1936 | 78,248 | 23.90% | 249,117 | 76.08% | 67 | 0.02% |
1932 | 69,170 | 25.04% | 206,307 | 74.68% | 775 | 0.28% |
1928 | 144,168 | 56.83% | 101,764 | 40.12% | 7,742 | 3.05% |
1924 | 30,633 | 28.06% | 62,083 | 56.88% | 16,438 | 15.06% |
1920 | 44,853 | 30.79% | 90,515 | 62.13% | 10,313 | 7.08% |
1916 | 14,611 | 18.10% | 55,984 | 69.34% | 10,139 | 12.56% |
1912 | 4,279 | 8.42% | 35,343 | 69.52% | 11,215 | 22.06% |
1908 | 10,654 | 21.58% | 31,104 | 63.01% | 7,602 | 15.40% |
1904 | 8,314 | 21.15% | 27,046 | 68.80% | 3,949 | 10.05% |
1900 | 7,355 | 18.55% | 28,273 | 71.31% | 4,021 | 10.14% |
1896 | 11,298 | 24.30% | 32,756 | 70.46% | 2,434 | 5.24% |
1892 | 0 | 0.00% | 30,153 | 85.01% | 5,318 | 14.99% |
1888 | 26,529 | 39.89% | 39,557 | 59.48% | 414 | 0.62% |
1884 | 28,031 | 46.73% | 31,769 | 52.96% | 190 | 0.32% |
1880 | 23,654 | 45.83% | 27,964 | 54.17% | 0 | 0.00% |
1876 | 23,849 | 50.99% | 22,927 | 49.01% | 0 | 0.00% |
1872 | 17,763 | 53.52% | 15,427 | 46.48% | 0 | 0.00% |
1860 | 0 | 0.00% | 223 | 1.68% | 13,078 | 98.32% |
1856 | 0 | 0.00% | 6,358 | 56.81% | 4,833 | 43.19% |
1852 | 2,875 | 39.97% | 4,318 | 60.03% | 0 | 0.00% |
1848 | 4,120 | 57.20% | 3,083 | 42.80% | 0 | 0.00% |
In the first half of the 19th century, the right to vote was held only by white males aged 21 and over. After 1920, women were able to vote with the passing of the
Florida was originally part of the
The Florida Elections Commission was established in 1973. In 2005, Jeb Bush signed a bill to abolish primary runoff elections,[11] resulting in all primary and general elections being determined by plurality rather than majority.
The state is dominated by Republicans on the state level, as Democrats have not held the governorship or either house of the legislature since 1999. Republicans currently have veto-proof majorities in both houses of the Florida legislature.[12] However, the state has become increasingly Republican since the late 2010s, as in 2018, Republicans captured both Senate seats in the state for the first time since Reconstruction.[13] In 2020, Florida voted 7.8 points right of the nation as a whole, the furthest it has voted from the nation since 1988, and it was the first election since 1992 that Florida backed the losing candidate. In 2022, Republicans won their largest statewide victories since Reconstruction and neared 60% of the vote. In 2021, registered Republicans surpassed Democrats for the first time in state history.[14]
Election security
On August 8, 2018 Senator Bill Nelson told the Tampa Bay Times that Florida's voting system had been penetrated by Russian hacking efforts. Senator Nelson noted that the likely target of hacking efforts was voter rolls for the state.[15]
During DEF CON 26 in 2018, an 11-year-old reportedly hacked into a Florida state election website replica in just 10 minutes by taking advantage of expired SSL certificates. The participants of this event also discovered vulnerabilities of the state voting machines via the memory card and rendering a voter's ballot invalid.[16]
In
Party affiliation
The following statistics show party affiliation of registered Florida voters:
- In 1972, Democratic registered 69%, Republican 28%, and 3% other.
- In 1992, Democratic registered 51%, Republicans 41%, and 8% other.
- In 2013, Democrats registered 40%, Republicans 35%, and 25% other.[20]
- In 2016, Democrats registered 38%, Republicans 36%, and 26% other.[21]
- In 2018, Democrats registered 37%, Republicans 35%, and 28% other.
- In 2021, Democrats registered 35.6%, Republicans 35.9%, and 28.5% other.[22]
See also
- Florida elections, 2020
- Politics of Florida
- Government of Florida
- United States presidential elections in Florida
- Women's suffrage in Florida
References
- ^ "The Florida Constitution". Archived from the original on 2008-12-08. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
- S2CID 225139517. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- ^ a b Leip, David. "General Election Results – Florida". United States Election Atlas. Retrieved November 18, 2016.
- ^ Muro, Chris (February 3, 2015). "Ruling could affect state's judicial selection". Florida Today. Melbourne, Florida. pp. 7A.
- ^ Parties struggle to control primaries
- ^ Early primary gives Florida a big say in '08 vote
- ^ Judge dismisses primary date lawsuit Miami Herald, December 6, 2007
- ^ A Brief History of Florida
- ^ "Florida Presidential Election Voting History - 270toWin".
- ^ Florida:Timeline Archived 2007-04-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Runoff primary election is history now, Orlando Sentinel
- ^ "Republicans win big in Florida, flipping long Democratic Miami-Dade". 9 November 2022.
- ^ "Florida to have 2 Republican senators for the first time since the Reconstruction era". 10NEWS. November 18, 2018. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
- ^ "Voter Registration - By Party Affiliation - Division of Elections - Florida Department of State". dos.myflorida.com. Archived from the original on 2021-09-17. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
- ^ "Senator says Russia has 'penetrated' Florida election systems". Engadget. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
- ^ "An 11-year-old hacked a replica of Florida's voting system in 10 minutes". Vox. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
- ^ "Gov. DeSantis: Russians hacked voting databases in two Florida counties; The GOP governor said the incidents took place in 2016 and no election results were compromised". Associated Press. May 14, 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2019 – via nbcnews.com.
- ^ Brendan Farrington (May 14, 2019). "DeSantis: Russians accessed 2 Florida voting databases". apnews.com. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
- ^ Miles Parks (May 14, 2019). "Florida Governor Says Russian Hackers Breached 2 Counties In 2016". NPR.org. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
- ^ Dockery, Paula (October 19, 2013). "In the middle sits a silent majority". Florida Today. Melbourne, Florida. pp. 13A. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
- ^ "Voter Registration - Current by County - Division of Elections - Florida Department of State". dos.myflorida.com. Archived from the original on 2016-10-24. Retrieved 2016-10-27.
- ^ "Voter Registration - By Party Affiliation - Division of Elections - Florida Department of State". dos.myflorida.com. Archived from the original on 2021-09-17. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
Further reading
- Nick Corasaniti; Stephanie Saul; Patricia Mazzei (September 13, 2020), "Big Voting Decisions in Florida, Wisconsin, Texas: What They Mean for November", New York Times, archived from the original on September 13, 2020,
Both parties are waging legal battles around the country over who gets to vote and how
External links
- Florida Division of Elections government website
- Florida Elections Commission government website
- "League of Women Voters of Florida". (State affiliate of the U.S. League of Women Voters)
- Florida at Ballotpedia
- Government Documents Round Table of the American Library Association, "Florida", Voting & Elections Toolkits
- Digital Public Library of America. Assorted materials related to Florida elections
- "State Elections Legislation Database", Ncsl.org, Washington, D.C.: National Conference of State Legislatures,
State legislation related to the administration of elections introduced in 2011 through this year, 2020