| FLORIDA | 29 Electoral Votes |
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(Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Florida Secretary of State)
Florida has 67 counties. Five counties over 1 million: Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Hillsborough, Orange. > Six cities over 200,000: Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hileah. (Miami-Ft. Lauderdale is the largest metropolitan area). > Government
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State of Florida Secretary of State Republican Party of FL Miami
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Register: Oct. 5, 2020. County Supervisors of Elections send Vote-by-Mail Ballots: Sept. 24-Oct.1, 2020. Mandatory Early Voting Period: Oct. 24-31, 2020. County Supervisors of Elections can offer more days: Oct. 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and Nov. 1. Vote by Mail and Early Voting Statistics
Pre-Election Litigation: In an Apr. 7, 2020 letter, the Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections recommended to Gov. DeSantis that counties be allowed the option of beginning Earliy Voting up to 22 days prior to the Election and that the period for sending out Vote-by-Mail ballots be extended. On July 20, 2020 a settlement agreement was reached in a lawsuit filed by Priorities USA and others to remove hurdles in the state's vote by mail system (+). |
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Overview:
The Sunshine State, which has seen its share of very
close contests in recent years, was again a battleground
state. Florida was seen as critical to Trump's success. He made it his home state, claiming Mar-a-Lago as his legal residence for voting purposes. Trump launched his campaign with a rally in Orlando on June 18, 2019. The Trump campaign plied the state with visits and was fully engaged on the ground; on July 11 Florida Trump Victory announced its team had achieved 10 million voter contacts. State Democrats pointed to some impressive numbers of their own including, as of June 2020, 241 staff, nearly 20,000 volunteers. As in other states the Biden campaign has remained largely in virtual mode; Biden made his first general election trip here on Sept. 15, and all of the campaign's events had very limited attendance and social distancing. Trump won by a margin of 371,686 votes (3.36 percentage points), carrying 55 counties to 12 for Biden. Most analysts attribute Trump's gains to his strong showing in south Florida where his anti-communist and anti-socialist message played well with Cuban Americans and other Latin American groups. General Election Details Trump | Biden [FLSOS] | BALLOT [PDF] |
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Primary: August 18, 2020] |
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| Registration: 9,929,980. Turnout: 3,002,960. % Turnout: 30.2%. |
| Democrats
Biden 1,077,375 (61.95%), Sanders 397,311 (22.84%), Bloomberg 146,544 (8.43%)... Total 1,739,214 details 250 Delegates: 143 District, 47 At-Large, 29 PLEO, 31 Unpledged. |
Republicans
Trump 1,162,984 (93.79%), Weld 39,319 (3.17%) Walsh 25,464 (2.05%) De La Fuente 12,172 (0.98%). Total 1,239,939. |
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| Bush 40.89% |
Clinton 48.02% |
Bush* 48.85% |
Bush 52.10% |
Obama 51.03% |
Obama 50.01% |
Trump 49.02% |
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Eligible Population*:
14,601,373. VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 64.5%. Voter Registration Deadline: initially Oct. 11, 2016; following Hurricane Matthew deadline extended to Oct. 18.* Early Voting: Oct. 29 - Nov. 5, 2016 (tenth day before Election Day to the third day before Election Day)." *Each county Supervisor of Elections may at his or her own discretion offer additional days of early voting from Oct. 24. |
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Overview:
Florida, the last state to be called by news
organizations in 2012, was again a closely fought
battleground state in 2016. Indeed in the final
week of the campaign, the four principals together
made more visits to Florida than to any other state (+). Trump
carried 58 counties to nine for Clinton, winning with
a margin of 112,911 votes (1.20 percentage points). General Election Details Clinton | Trump BALLOT [PDF] |
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Eligible Population*:
13,495,057. VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 62.8%. -More than 2.4 million early votes were cast. -Nearly 2.4 million absentee votes were cast. Registration: Dem. 4,781,978 (40.07%) Rep. 4,245,991 (35.58%) No Pty Aff. 2,572,901 (21.56%) Minor 333,576 (2.80%) Total 11,934,446. Voter Registration Deadline: Oct. 9, 2012. Early Voting: Oct. 27-Nov. 3, 2012 (tenth day before Election Day to the Saturday before Election Day). |
Turnout: 8,538,264. |
2012
Overview Florida was again a hotly contested battleground state, and indeed was the last state to be called by news organizations. Out of 8.47 million votes tallied in the presidential race, the Obama-Biden ticket won by a margin of just 74,309 votes (0.88 percentage points). Obama-Biden carried 13 counties to 54 for McCain-Palin. General Election Details Obama | Romney BALLOT [PDF] |
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Eligible
Population*:
12,426,633. VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 67.5%. According to county early voting reports compiled by the Secretary of State, 2,610,308 Floridians voted early (30.88% of turnout). Registration: Dem. 4,722,076 (41.98%) Rep. 4,064,301 (36.13%) No Pty Aff. 2,103,119 (18.70%) Other Parties 358,138 (3.18%) Total 11,247,634. |
Total ballots: 8,453,743. |
2008 Overview From a plurality of 380,978 votes (5.01 percentage points) for Bush-Cheney in 2004, Florida switched to the Democrats, giving the Obama-Biden ticket a margin of 236,450 votes (3.19 percentage points). Obama-Biden carried 15 counties to 52 for McCain-Palin. General Election Details Obama/Allies | McCain/Allies | Nader |
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11,811,921. VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 64.4%. Of 7,646,092 total votes cast:
In addition: 27,742 people cast provisional ballots 10,007 provisional ballots were counted Registration: Dem. 4,261,249 (41.37%) Rep. 3,892,492 (37.79%) No Pty Aff. 1,886,013 (18.31%) Other Parties 261,536 (2.54%) Total 10,301,290. Registration Deadline: Oct. 4, 2004. Early voting: Started Oct. 18, 2004. (SoS: "The 2004 Legislature passed legislation which standardizes early voting throughout the state...all supervisors will begin conducting early voting in their main and branch offices 15 days before the election.") |
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2004 Overview There were no post-election dramatics this time, as Bush-Cheney won the Sunshine State with a margin of 380,978 votes (5.01 percentage points), carrying 56 counties to 11 for Kerry. About 1.5 million more votes were cast than in 2000. General Election Details | Photos Kerry/Allies | Bush/Cheney '04 |
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| Voting Eligible Population*: 10,667,193. VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 55.9%. Total Registration: 8,752,717. All told about 6.1 million people cast ballots in Florida. According to the Florida Task Force report there were 179,855 blank or spoiled ballots; this includes uncertified results from 3 counties. The Miami Herald, in its post-election analysis, examined 176,087 uncounted ballots: 111,261 overvotes and 64,826 undervotes, while. USA Today examined 171,908 untabulated ballots: 111,261 overvotes and 60,647 undervotes. The Florida Ballots Project suggests a total of around 172,000. However, all these numbers depend on what is counted. For example in some of the larger counties there were "trays and trays" of absentee ballots where, for example, the signatures didn't match, that didn't get counted. |
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Overview
It took a 36-day post-election odyssey to finalize the outcome, but Gov. Bush officially won Florida by 537 votes. The election was decided as much in the courts as at the polls (Battle for Florida), and there will always be doubts in some people's minds about who won. Bush carried 51 counties and the federal absentee ballots, while Vice President Gore won in 16 counties. The Democrats' base in Florida is in the southeast (Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade), while Republicans fared well in rural counties. Thus in many ways the race came down to the I-4 corridor, which runs across central Florida from Tampa Bay through Orlando to Daytona Beach. General Election Activity |
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