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The 2022 Florida gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of Florida, alongside other state and local elections.Incumbent Republican governor Ron DeSantis won re-election in landslide, [1] with 59.4 percent of the vote to Crist's 40 percent; it was the largest margin of victory in a Florida gubernatorial election since 1982. [2]
Governor John Bel Edwards was re-elected to a second term in 2019 with 51.3% of the vote. He was term-limited by the Louisiana Constitution in 2023, and could not seek reelection for a third consecutive term. Louisiana utilizes a jungle primary system. Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry was considered the frontrunner.
All of Florida's 28 house seats were up in the 2022 elections. Republicans, who had already held a majority with 16 seats, expanded their majority by four seats by defeating the incumbent Democrats in Florida's 4th, 7th, 13th, and 15th congressional districts; due to this, Florida Democrats were downgraded from 11 to eight seats.
Gov. Ron DeSantis was not on the ballot Tuesday, but his influence was felt. The state itself saw the highest percentage of voter turnout in more than 30 years. Republicans in general outperformed ...
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The population of Florida in 2022 was 22,244,823, which was a 1.91% increase from 2021's population of 21,828,069. Last year, the U.S. Census Bureau declared that Florida was the nation’s ...
In September 2022, after similar actions by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, an agent of DeSantis recruited 50 newly arrived asylum seekers, mostly from Venezuela, in San Antonio, Texas, and flew them via two chartered planes to the Crestview, Florida airport, where they did not debark, then proceeded to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The ...
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