How Florida has voted since 1960
Florida has 30 electoral votes in 2028, and at the current pace of population change it would gain four electoral votes after the 2030 census. Since 1960 it has voted Democratic 5 times and Republican 12 times. It has backed the national winner in 14 of 17 elections, missing in 1960, 1992 and 2020. Donald Trump carried it in 2024 by 13.1 points, 11.6 points more Republican than the nation. In 2024, 67.4% of its eligible voters cast a ballot, ranking 20th among the 50 states and DC (nationally, 64.3%). It has voted Republican in every election since 2016. Its closest result was in 2000, when George W. Bush won it by 537 votes.
- 1960Nixon+3.0
- 1964Johnson+2.3
- 1968Nixon+9.6
- 1972Nixon+44.1
- 1976Carter+5.3
- 1980Reagan+17.0
- 1984Reagan+30.7
- 1988Bush+22.4
- 1992Bush+1.9
- 1996Clinton+5.7
- 2000Bush<0.1
- 2004Bush+5.0
- 2008Obama+2.8
- 2012Obama+0.9
- 2016Trump+1.2
- 2020Trump+3.4
- 2024Trump+13.1
Each box is one election: the winner in Florida and the margin in points. Darker boxes were won by 10 points or more, lighter by under 5.
Election night
7 p.m. ET
Polls close at 7 p.m. ET; in the western Panhandle (Central Time) they close at 8 p.m. ET.
Also closing at 7 p.m. ET: GA, SC, VT, VA.
Times from the 2024 general election; states rarely change them, and they will be confirmed for 2028.
2028 ratings
- Safe R Electoral Vote Map Sept. 27, 2026
In Congress
Senate
- Rick Scott (R) since 2019
- Ashley Moody (R) since 2025
House: 20 Republicans, 7 Democrats
All 27 members
- 1 Jimmy Patronis (R)
- 2 Neal P. Dunn (R)
- 3 Kat Cammack (R)
- 4 Aaron Bean (R)
- 5 John H. Rutherford (R)
- 6 Randy Fine (R)
- 7 Cory Mills (R)
- 8 Mike Haridopolos (R)
- 9 Darren Soto (D)
- 10 Maxwell Frost (D)
- 11 Daniel Webster (R)
- 12 Gus M. Bilirakis (R)
- 13 Anna Paulina Luna (R)
- 14 Kathy Castor (D)
- 15 Laurel M. Lee (R)
- 16 Vern Buchanan (R)
- 17 W. Gregory Steube (R)
- 18 Scott Franklin (R)
- 19 Byron Donalds (R)
- 21 Brian J. Mast (R)
- 22 Lois Frankel (D)
- 23 Jared Moskowitz (D)
- 24 Frederica S. Wilson (D)
- 25 Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D)
- 26 Mario Diaz-Balart (R)
- 27 Maria Elvira Salazar (R)
- 28 Carlos A. Gimenez (R)
From Congress.gov, as of Sept. 28, 2026. Vacant seats are not listed.
Margin by election
Florida margin National popular vote
By county
Donald Trump won 61 of Florida's 67 counties in 2024; Kamala Harris won 6.
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Largest counties, 2024
| County | Votes | Margin | Shift from 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miami-Dade County | 1,094,105 | R+11.4 | →R 18.8 |
| Broward County | 874,539 | D+17.0 | →R 12.8 |
| Palm Beach County | 745,709 | D+0.8 | →R 12.0 |
| Hillsborough County | 671,993 | R+3.1 | →R 9.9 |
| Orange County | 607,199 | D+13.6 | →R 9.5 |
| Pinellas County | 517,074 | R+5.2 | →R 5.4 |
| Duval County | 471,282 | R+1.5 | →R 5.3 |
| Lee County | 392,532 | R+28.4 | →R 9.2 |
| Brevard County | 361,449 | R+20.8 | →R 4.4 |
| Polk County | 348,931 | R+20.7 | →R 6.3 |
Biggest shifts from 2020 to 2024: toward the Republican, Miami-Dade County (18.8), Osceola County (15.3), Hendry County (15.3); toward the Democrat, Nassau County (1.0), Holmes County (1.3), Sumter County (1.5) — in points of margin.
County returns from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab (official state data), 2000–2024. Margin is the Democrat's share minus the Republican's, of all votes cast.
Results by year
| Year | Winner | Democrat | Republican | Other | Margin | Nation | Turnout | EV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Donald TrumpTrump | Harris 43.0%4,683,038 | Trump 56.1%6,110,125 | 0.9% | R+13.1 | R+1.5 | 67.4% | 30 |
| 2020 | Donald TrumpTrump lost | Biden 47.9%5,297,045 | Trump 51.2%5,668,731 | 0.9% | R+3.4 | D+4.5 | 70.8% | 29 |
| 2016 | Donald TrumpTrump | Clinton 47.8%4,504,975 | Trump 49.0%4,617,886 | 3.2% | R+1.2 | D+2.1 | 65.7% | 29 |
| 2012 | Barack ObamaObama | Obama 50.0%4,237,756 | Romney 49.1%4,163,447 | 0.9% | D+0.9 | D+3.9 | 63.3% | 29 |
| 2008 | Barack ObamaObama | Obama 51.0%4,282,074 | McCain 48.2%4,045,624 | 0.8% | D+2.8 | D+7.3 | 66.7% | 27 |
| 2004 | George W. BushBush | Kerry 47.1%3,583,544 | Bush 52.1%3,964,522 | 0.8% | R+5.0 | R+2.5 | 64.3% | 27 |
| 2000 | George W. BushBush | Gore 48.8%2,912,253 | Bush 48.9%2,912,790 | 2.3% | Even | D+0.5 | 56.0% | 25 |
| 1996 | Bill ClintonClinton | Clinton 48.0%2,546,870 | Dole 42.3%2,244,536 | Perot 9.1% | D+5.7 | D+8.5 | 53.2% | 25 |
| 1992 | George H.W. BushBush lost | Clinton 39.0%2,072,698 | Bush 40.9%2,173,310 | Perot 19.8% | R+1.9 | D+5.6 | 57.2% | 25 |
| 1988 | George H.W. BushBush | Dukakis 38.5%1,656,701 | Bush 60.9%2,618,885 | 0.6% | R+22.4 | R+7.7 | 49.0% | 21 |
| 1984 | Ronald ReaganReagan | Mondale 34.7%1,448,816 | Reagan 65.3%2,730,350 | 0.0% | R+30.7 | R+18.2 | 52.4% | 21 |
| 1980 | Ronald ReaganReagan | Carter 38.5%1,419,475 | Reagan 55.5%2,046,951 | Anderson 5.1% | R+17.0 | R+9.7 | 52.0% | 17 |
| 1976 | Jimmy CarterCarter | Carter 51.9%1,636,000 | Ford 46.6%1,469,531 | 1.4% | D+5.3 | D+2.1 | — | 17 |
| 1972 | Richard NixonNixon | McGovern 27.8% | Nixon 71.9% | 0.3% | R+44.1 | R+23.2 | — | 17 |
| 1968 | Richard NixonNixon | Humphrey 30.9% | Nixon 40.5% | Wallace 28.5% | R+9.6 | R+0.7 | — | 14 |
| 1964 | Lyndon B. JohnsonJohnson | Johnson 51.2% | Goldwater 48.9% | 0.0% | D+2.3 | D+22.6 | — | 14 |
| 1960 | Richard NixonNixon lost | Kennedy 48.5% | Nixon 51.5% | 0.0% | R+3.0 | D+0.2 | — | 10 |
Margin is the Democrat's share minus the Republican's, in percentage points; Nation is the same for the national popular vote. "Other" is everyone else combined, or the leading third-party candidate where one took 5% or more. Vote counts from 1976. Turnout is ballots cast as a share of eligible voters, from 1980 (UF Election Lab; the newest year is preliminary).
Electoral votes
Electoral votes change after each census, when House seats are reapportioned.
- 1019601950 census
- 141964–19681960 census
- 171972–19801970 census
- 211984–19881980 census
- 251992–20001990 census
- 272004–20082000 census
- 292012–20202010 census
- 302024–20282020 census
- 342032–2040projected
Projected: Florida's share of House seats after the 2030 census if each state's population keeps changing at its pace since 2020, from the Census Bureau's 2024 American Community Survey population estimates (July 1, 2024). If the count were taken today it would have 32. An estimate, not a forecast.