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In this election, the Whig Party won Florida's three electoral votes with 57.20% of the vote; this was its only victory in the state. [2] 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]
Before the election, aggregate polls had Biden in the lead in Florida by 1 to 3 percentage points. Despite this, Trump won by a 3.4-point margin, improving on his margin from 2016 by 2.2 points. This was the largest margin for any presidential election in Florida since 2004.
In 2020, Florida voted 7.8 points right of the nation as a whole, the furthest it has voted from the nation since 1988, and it was the first election since 1992 that Florida backed the losing candidate. In 2022, Republicans won their largest statewide victories since Reconstruction and neared 60% of the vote.
“Florida’s trended red in the last couple elections, but Barack Obama still won the state twice and Donald Trump won it twice,” Sayfie said. “Florida’s still a purple state.”
Kamala Harris won six Florida counties in Tuesday's election, including Trump's home county of Palm Beach and Leon County, home to the state's capital.
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In addition to the U.S. presidential race, Florida voters elected all of its seats to the U.S. House of Representatives, one seat on the Florida Supreme Court, 25 of 65 seats on the Florida District Courts of Appeal, all of the seats of the Florida House of Representatives, and 21 of 40 seats in the Florida Senate. Six ballot measures were also ...
Republicans resoundingly won Florida on Nov. 8 — and this week, by a slim majority, also the U.S. House of Representatives, in part, thanks to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ unconstitutional ...