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In this election, Florida voted 7.8 points right of the nation as a whole, the furthest it has voted from the nation since 1988, when the state voted 14.6 points right of the national result. As of the 2024 presidential election, this was the only election in which Florida backed the losing candidate since 1992.
In the realigning 1860 election, Florida was one of the ten slave states that did not provide ballot access to the Republican nominee, Abraham Lincoln. [3] John C. Breckinridge emerged victorious, winning 62.23% of the vote. [4] Shortly after the 1860 election, Florida seceded from the Union and became a part of the Confederacy. [5]
Neither of the state's two U.S. Senate seats were up for election in 2020. [ 1 ] To vote by mail , registered Florida voters had to request a ballot by October 24, 2020. [ 2 ]
The 2020 election — like nearly every presidential race before it — will be decided by the Electoral College, which assigns every state with a set number of electoral votes based on its number ...
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For state elections, the Governor of Florida, Lieutenant Governor, and the members of the Florida Cabinet, and members of the Florida Senate are elected every four years; members of the Florida House of Representatives are elected every two years. In a 2020 study, Florida was ranked as the 11th hardest state for citizens to vote in. [2]
Florida was not a swing state in this election. Florida is a red state and stayed red in the 2024 election. ... Here are the states that voted for President Joe Biden in the 2020 election ...
An August 2020 state-by-state analysis concluded that 76% of Americans were eligible to vote by mail in 2020, a record number. The analysis predicted that 80 million ballots could be cast by mail in 2020—more than double the number in 2016.