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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.
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]
The 2010 Florida gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 2010. Republican -turned- independent incumbent Governor Charlie Crist chose not to run for a second term and he ran unsuccessfully for the Senate seat vacated by Mel Martínez . [ 2 ]
Elections were held in Florida on Tuesday, November 2, 2010. Primary elections were held on August 24, 2010.. Florida had 4.6 million Democrats and 4 million Republicans. The latter outpolled Democrats among the 2.4 million independent voters and attracted conservative Democrats in cross-party voting.
Individual states could schedule congressional elections into January or February. [1] The dates when Senate elections were held varied even more: before the Seventeenth Amendment was ratified in 1913, senators were chosen by state legislatures , which meant senate seats could remain vacant for months or years due to legislative deadlock .
A man drives his scooter past sculptures of flamingos at voting booths on the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections offices on August 20, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. The general election ...
However, the same survey also found that only 36% of Florida voters thought he deserved to be re-elected, compared to 38% who did not and 26% who were unsure. 36% also said that if the 2010 election were held on that day, they would vote for Martínez, while 40% said they would vote for his Democratic opponent, with 24% unsure.
The 2021 St. Petersburg, Florida, mayoral election was held on August 24, 2021, with a runoff on November 2 because no candidate received more than 50% of the vote in the first round. It elected the mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida . [ 1 ]