FLORIDA
      Nov. 8, 2016 U.S. Senate

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+Marco Rubio (R) i
 4,835,191 51.98%
Patrick Murphy (D)
 4,122,088 44.31%
Paul Stanton (LPF)
 196,956 2.12%
Bruce Nathan (NPA)
 52,451
 0.56%
Tony Khoury (NPA)
 45,820
 0.49%
Steve Machat (NPA)
 26,918
 0.29%
Basil E. Dalack (NPA)
 22,236
 0.24%
write-ins
180

9,301,840
Voter Registration 12,863,773.  Turnout 9,580,489.
Plurality: 713,103 votes (7.67 percentage points)
  FL Department of State



Notes: Democrats viewed this seat as a possible pick-up.  Sen. Marco Rubio was running for president (+) and the leading Republican contenders Reps. David Jolly (R-13) and Ron DeSantis (R-6) were seen as beatable.  However on June 22  Rubio reversed course and announced he had decided to seek re-election (+).  Jolly and DeSantis abandoned their bids, and Rubio handily fended off a primary challenge from Carlos Beruff and several others.  In the Democratic primary, Rep. Patrick Murphy dispatched Alan Grayson and several others.  In November Democrats' hopes for a pick-up fell short as Rubio defeated Murphy (D).   

The Center for Responsive Politics reports the Florida Senate race was the fourth most expensive of the cycle with a total of $110.5 million spent, including $59.9 million by candidates and $50.6 million by outside groups (>).  According to the Center, the Rubio campaign spent $21.8 million compared to $19.0 million for the Murphy campaign (>).  According to the FEC for 2015-16 the Murphy campaign reported disbursements of $19.5 million compared to total disbursements of $16.9 million for the Rubio campaign (>).

Campaign Managers
Marco Rubio: Terry Sullivan
Campaign manager of Marco Rubio for President, Mar. 2015-Mar. 2016.  Director of Rubio's Reclaim America leadership PAC, Mar. 2012-Mar. 2015.  Deputy chief of staff in Rubio's Senate office, Mar. 2011-Dec. 2012.  Managing partner at First Tuesday Strategies, Nov. 2006-Feb. 2011; also the direct mail firm On The Mark.  Joined U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's bid for governor of Texas as campaign manager in July 2009.  South Carolina primary campaign manager for the first Romney for President campaign, from Jan. 2007.   Partner at TTS Strategies, the consulting firm run by J. Warren Tompkins.  Campaign manager for U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX) in 2005.  Campaign manager on DeMint for Senate, May 2003-Dec. 2004.  Youth coordinator for Sen. Jesse Helms' 1996 re-election campaign.  Graduate of UNC Wilmington, 1997, after starting out at UNC Greensboro.

Patrick Murphy: Josh Wolf
(April 2015)  Camapign manager on Committee to Elect Steve Grossman (MA), Aug. 2013-Nov. 2014.  Campaign manager on Bera for Congress (CA), Dec. 2011-Jan. 2013.  Regional director for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, April 2011-Jan. 2012.  Campaign production coordinator at Ambrosino, Muir & Hansen, Aug-Nov. 2010.  Chief of staff (Jan.-Aug. 2010) and legislative director (Jan.-Dec. 2009) to Sen. Bobby Zirkin (MD).  Studied at Tufts University. 






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