Political party strength in Florida

The following tables indicate party affiliation in the U.S. state of Florida for the individual elected offices of:

As well as the following historical offices that were elected from 1889 to 2005:

The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:

For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes. For the Civil War years, the table indicates the state's delegation to the Confederate Congress, in lieu of the U.S. Congress.

The parties are shaded as follows:   Democratic (D),   Republican (R),   Whig (W),   Prohibition (P), and   Independent (I) or nonpartisan.

1845–1888
YearExecutive officesState LegislatureUnited States CongressElectoral College votes
GovernorLt. GovernorState SenateState HouseU.S. Senator (Class I)U.S. Senator (Class III)U.S. House
1845 William D. Moseley (D) no such office 11D, 6W 30D, 10W, 1? David Levy Yulee (D) James Westcott (D) 1W / 1D[1]
1846
1847 12D, 7W 22D, 17W 1W
1848 12W, 7D 21W, 11D, 7? Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore (W) Y
1849 Thomas Brown (W) 24W, 16D Jackson Morton (W)
1850
1851 10D, 9W 21D, 19W Stephen Mallory (D)
1852 Franklin Pierce and William R. King (D) Y
1853 James E. Broome (D) 12D, 6W, 1I 26D, 13W, 1 vac. 1D
1854
1855 11D, 7W, 1 vac. 23D, 17W, 1? David Levy Yulee (D)
1856 James Buchanan and John C. Breckinridge (D) Y
1857 Madison S. Perry (D) 13D, 7A, 1? 29D, 16A
1858
1859 15D, 6O 35D, 10O
1860 John C. Breckinridge and Joseph Lane (Southern Democratic) N
1861 John Milton (D)[2] 13D, 8O 37D, 10O vacant during Civil War
1862 James McNair Baker (Fmr. W/KN)[3] Augustus Emmett Maxwell (Fmr. D)[3] 2 Fmr. D[3]
1863
1864 Civil War
1865 Abraham K. Allison (D)[4][5]
vacant vacant during Reconstruction
William Marvin (D)[6]
vacant
1866 David S. Walker[7] William W. J. Kelly (R) 21N 47N William Marvin (D)[8] Wilkinson Call (D)[8] Frederick McLeod (D)[8]
1867 vacant during Reconstruction
1868
Harrison Reed (R)[9] William Henry Gleason (R) 16R, 8D 37R, 15D Adonijah Welch (R) Thomas W. Osborn (R) 1R Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax (R) Y
1869 vacant Abijah Gilbert (R)
1870 Edmund C. Weeks (R)
1871 Samuel T. Day (R) 11R, 10D[10] 23R, 20D[11] 1R / 1D[12]
1872 Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson (R) Y
1873 Ossian B. Hart (R)[13] Marcellus Stearns (R) 13R, 11D 29R, 23D Simon B. Conover (R) 2R
1874 Marcellus Sterns (R)[14] vacant
1875 12D, 12R 28D, 24R Charles W. Jones (D) 2R / 1D, 1R[15]
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler (R) Y
1877 George F. Drew (D) Noble A. Hull (D) 15D, 9R 31D, 21R 1D, 1R / 2D[16]
1878
1879 25D, 7R 46D, 28R, 1I, 1 tied Wilkinson Call (D) 2D / 1D, 1R[17]
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock and William Hayden English (D) N
1881 William D. Bloxham (D) L. W. Bethel (D) 27D, 5R 58D, 18R 2D / 1D, 1R[18]
1882
1883 17D, 9I, 6R 34D, 27R, 15I[19] 1D, 1R
1884 Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks (D) Y
1885 Edward A. Perry (D) Milton Mabry (D) 17D, 8I, 7R 48D, 25R, 3I 2D
1886
1887 24D, 5R, 3I 55D, 13R, 8I Samuel Pasco (D)
1888 Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman (D) N
YearGovernorLt. GovernorState SenateState HouseU.S. Senator (Class I)U.S. Senator (Class III)U.S. HouseElectoral College votes
Executive officesState LegislatureUnited States Congress

1889–2002
YearExecutive officesState LegislatureUnited States CongressElectoral College votes
GovernorLt. GovernorSec. of StateAttorney GeneralComptrollerTreasurerComm. of Ed.Comm. of Ag.State SenateState HouseU.S. Senator (Class I)U.S. Senator (Class III)U.S. House
1889 Francis P. Fleming (D) no such office John Lovic Crawford (D) William Bailey Lamar (D) William D. Barnes (D) Francis J. Pons (D) Albert J. Russell (D) Lucius B. Wombwell (D) 27D, 5R 58D, 9R, 9I Samuel Pasco (D) Wilkinson Call (D) 2D Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman (D) N
1890 William D. Bloxham (D)
1891 E. J. Triay (D) 31D, 1R 76D
1892 Grover Cleveland and Adlai Stevenson I (D) Y
1893 Henry L. Mitchell (D) Clarence B. Collins (D) William N. Sheats (D)
1894
1895 31D, 1P 74D, 1R, 1I
1896 William Jennings Bryan and Arthur Sewall (D) N
1897 William D. Bloxham (D) William H. Reynolds (D) James B. Whitfield (D) 63D, 3R, 2I Stephen Mallory II (D)[13]
1898
1899 32D 68D James Taliaferro (D)
1900 William Jennings Bryan and Adlai Stevenson I (D) N
1901 William S. Jennings (D) A. C. Croom (D) Benjamin E. McLin (D)
1902 Henry Clay Crawford (D)[20]
1903 James B. Whitfield (D) William V. Knott (D) 67D, 1R 3D
1904 W.H. Ellis (D) Alton B. Parker and Henry G. Davis (D) N
1905 Napoleon B. Broward (D) William N. Holloway (D) 68D
1906
1907 67D, 1 Soc. William J. Bryan (D)[13]
1908 William H. Milton (D) William Jennings Bryan and John W. Kern (D) N
1909 Albert W. Gilchrist (D) Park Trammell (D) Duncan U. Fletcher (D)[13]
1910
1911 68D Nathan Philemon Bryan (D)
1912 William V. Knott (D) J.C. Luning (D) J.C. Luning (D) Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall (D) Y
1913 Park Trammell (D) Thomas F. West (D) William N. Sheats (D) William Allen McRae (D) 71D 4D
1914
1915 73D
1916
1917 Sidney Johnston Catts (P) Van C. Swearingen (D) Ernest Amos (D) 74D, 1R Park Trammell (D)
1918
1919 77D
1920 James M. Cox and Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) N
1921 Cary A. Hardee (D) Rivers Buford (D)
1922 William S. Cawthon (D)
1923 Nathan Mayo (D)
1924 John W. Davis and Charles W. Bryan (D) N
1925 John W. Martin (D) J.B. Johnson (D) 84D
1926 87D[21]
1927 Fred Henry Davis (D) 95D
1928 William V. Knott (D) Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis (R) Y
1929 Doyle E. Carlton (D) William Monroe Igou (D) 37D, 1R 93D, 2R
1930 R.A. Gray (D)
1931 Cary D. Landis (D) 38D 95D
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner (D) Y
1933 David Sholtz (D) James Martin Lee (D) 94D, 1R 5D
1934
1935 95D
1936 Scott Loftin (D) William Luther Hill (D)
1937 Fred P. Cone (D) Colin English (D) Charles O. Andrews (D) Claude Pepper (D)
1938 George Couper Gibbs (D)
1939
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry A. Wallace (D) Y
1941 Spessard Holland (D) J. Thomas Watson (D) J. Edwin Larson (D)
1942
1943 6D
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (D) Y
1945 Millard F. Caldwell (D)
1946 Clarence M. Gay (D) Spessard Holland (D)
1947 94D, 1R
1948 Harry Truman and Alben Barkley (D) Y
1949 Fuller Warren (D) Richard Ervin (D)[22] Thomas D. Bailey (D) 95D
1950
1951 92D, 3R George Smathers (D)
1952 Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon (R) Y
1953 Daniel T. McCarty (D)[13] 37D, 1R 90D, 5R 8D
Charley Eugene Johns (D)[4]
1954
1955 LeRoy Collins (D) Ray E. Green (D) 89D, 6R 7D, 1R
1956
1957
1958
1959 92D, 3R
1960 Lee Thompson (D) Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (R) N
1961 C. Farris Bryant (D) Thomas Burton Adams, Jr. (D) Doyle Conner (D) 88D, 7R
1962
1963 41D, 2R[23] 109D, 16R[24] 10D, 2R
1964 James W. Kynes (D)[25] Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey (D) Y
1965 W. Haydon Burns (D) Earl Faircloth (D) Fred O. Dickinson (D) Broward Williams (D) Floyd T. Christian (D) 102D, 10R
1966
1967 Claude R. Kirk, Jr. (R) 28D, 20R[26] 80D, 39R[27] 9D, 3R
1968 Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (R) Y
1969 Ray C. Osborn (R)[28] 32D, 16R 77D, 42R Edward J. Gurney (R)
1970
1971 Reubin Askew (D) Thomas Burton Adams, Jr. (D) Richard Stone (D) Robert Shevin (D) Thomas D. O'Malley (D) 33D, 15R 81D, 38R Lawton Chiles (D)
1972
1973 25D, 14R, 1I 77D, 43R 11D, 4R
1974 Dorothy Glisson (D)
1975 J. H. Williams (D) Bruce Smathers (D)[29] Gerald A. Lewis (D) Philip F. Ashler (D) Ralph Turlington (D) 27D, 12R, 1I 86D, 34R Richard Stone (D) 10D, 5R
1976 Bill Gunter (D) Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale (D) Y
1977 30D, 9R, 1I 92D, 28R
1978 Jesse J. McCrary, Jr. (D)[25]
1979 Bob Graham (D)[30] Wayne Mixson (D) George Firestone (D) James C. Smith (D) 29D, 11R 89D, 31R 12D, 3R
1980 Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush (R) Y
1981 27D, 13R 81D, 39R Paula Hawkins (R) 11D, 4R
1982
1983 32D, 8R 84D, 36R 13D, 6R
1984
1985 31D, 9R 77D, 43R 12D, 7R
1986 30D, 10R[31]
1987 Wayne Mixson (D)[14] vacant James C. Smith (R) Bob Butterworth (D) Betty Castor (D) 25D, 15R 73D, 47R Bob Graham (D)
Bob Martinez (R) Bobby Brantley (R)
1988 George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) Y
1989 Tom Gallagher (R) 23D, 17R 70D, 50R Connie Mack III (R) 11R, 8D
1990
1991 Lawton Chiles (D)[13] Buddy MacKay (D) Bob Crawford (D) 74D, 46R 10R, 9D
1992 22D, 18R[32] George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) N
1993 20D, 20R[33] 71D, 49R 13R, 10D
1994 Douglas L. Jamerson (D)
1995 Sandra Mortham (R) Bob Milligan (R) Bill Nelson (D) Frank Brogan (R) 21R, 19D 63D, 57R 15R, 8D
1996 22R, 18D[34] Bill Clinton and Al Gore (D) Y
1997 23R, 17D 61R, 59D
1998 25R, 15D[35] 66R, 54D[36]
1999 Buddy MacKay (D)[14] vacant Katherine Harris (R) Tom Gallagher (R) 73R, 47D
Jeb Bush (R) Frank Brogan (R)
2000 75R, 45D[37] George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (R) Y
2001 Tom Gallagher (R) Charlie Crist (R) Charles H. Bronson (R) 77R, 43D Bill Nelson (D)
2002 Richard E. Doran (R)
YearGovernorLt. GovernorSec. of State[38]Attorney GeneralComptroller[39]Treasurer[40]Comm. of Ed. [41]Comm. of Ag.State SenateState HouseU.S. Senator (Class I)U.S. Senator (Class III)U.S. HouseElectoral College votes
Executive officesState LegislatureUnited States Congress

2003–present
YearExecutive officesState LegislatureUnited States CongressElectoral College votes
GovernorLt. GovernorAttorney GeneralCFOCommissioner
of Agriculture		State SenateState HouseU.S. Senator (Class I)U.S. Senator (Class III)U.S. House
2003 Jeb Bush (R) Toni Jennings (R) Charlie Crist (R) Tom Gallagher (R) Charles H. Bronson (R) 26R, 14D 81R, 39D Bill Nelson (D) Bob Graham (D) 18R, 7D George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (R) Y
2004
2005 84R, 36D Mel Martinez (R)
2006 85R, 35D[42]
2007 Charlie Crist (R) Jeff Kottkamp (R) Bill McCollum (R) Alex Sink (D) 78R, 42D 16R, 9D
2008 77R, 43D[43] Barack Obama and Joe Biden (D) Y
2009 76R, 44D 15R, 10D
2010 Charlie Crist (I) George LeMieux (R)
2011 Rick Scott (R) Jennifer Carroll (R) Pam Bondi (R) Jeffrey Atwater (R)[44] Adam Putnam (R) 28R, 12D 81R, 39D Marco Rubio (R) 19R, 6D
2012
2013 Vacant 26R, 14D 76R, 44D 17R, 10D
2014 Carlos López-Cantera (R) 75R, 45D[45]
2015 81R, 39D
2016 Donald Trump and Mike Pence (R) Y
2017 Jimmy Patronis (R)[25] 25R, 15D 79R, 41D 16R, 11D
2018 24R, 16D[46] 78R, 42D[47]
2019 Ron DeSantis (R) Jeanette Núñez (R) Ashley Moody (R) Nikki Fried (D) 23R, 17D 73R, 47D Rick Scott (R) 14R, 13D
2020 Donald Trump and Mike Pence (R) N
2021 24R, 16D 78R, 42D 16R, 11D
YearGovernorLt. GovernorAttorney GeneralCFOCommissioner
of Agriculture		State SenateState HouseU.S. Senator (Class I)U.S. Senator (Class III)U.S. HouseElectoral College votes
Executive officesState LegislatureUnited States Congress

See also

Notes
  1. The 1845 election was successfully contested in the U.S. House by the Democrat who initially lost.
  2. Died in office; committed suicide due to the pending defeat of the Confederate States of America.
  3. Served in the Congress of the Confederate States.
  4. As president of state Senate, filled unexpired term.
  5. Resigned from office to go into hiding from approaching Union troops.
  6. Appointed Provisional Governor by President Andrew Johnson following the Civil War.
  7. Most sources state Walker was a Democrat; the state archives say he was "Conservative". He was formerly a Whig, Know Nothing, and Constitutional Unionist, and he ran in the 1868 election as an "Independent Republican." "David Shelby Walker". State Library and Archives of Florida. Archived from the original on January 23, 2011. Retrieved April 4, 2017.Dubin, Michael J. (10 January 2014). United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1861-1911. ISBN 9780786456468. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
  8. Elected in 1865, but his credentials were not accepted by the Congress.
  9. Was popularly elected; assumed office on June 8, 1868. It was not until July 4, 1868, however, that the military commander of Florida, still under Reconstruction, recognized the validity of the state constitution and the election.
  10. The Legislature rejected the returns from three Senate districts; had they been admitted, the Senate would have been tied 12-12.
  11. The Legislature rejected the returns from nine House districts; had they been admitted, the House would have had a 28-23 Democratic majority with 1 Independent.
  12. The 1870 election was successfully contested in the U.S. House by the Democrat who initially lost.
  13. Died in office.
  14. As lieutenant governor, filled unexpired term.
  15. The 1874 election for the 2nd District was successfully contested in the U.S. House by the Democrat who initially lost.
  16. The 1876 election for the 2nd District was successfully contested in the U.S. House by the Democrat who initially lost.
  17. The 1878 election for the 2nd District was successfully contested in the U.S. House by the Republican who initially lost.
  18. The 1880 election for the 2nd District was successfully contested in the U.S. House by the Republican who initially lost.
  19. Though not winning enough seats to form an outright majority, the Democrats received enough votes to claim the Speakership and organize the House.
  20. Initially appointed to fill vacancy; later elected in his own right.
  21. Three counties were added to the state in 1925 after the Legislature started, adding three seats to the House mid-term.
  22. Resigned in order to accept appointment to the Florida Supreme Court.
  23. Due to the effects of Baker vs. Carr, the 1962 midterms were thrown out by a court, and a redistricting was conducted with new elections thereafter. The original results for the Senate yielded a 37-1 Democrat majority.
  24. Due to the effects of Baker vs. Carr, the 1962 midterms were thrown out by a court, and a redistricting was conducted with new elections thereafter. The original results for the House yielded a 90-5 Democrat majority.
  25. Appointed by governor to fill vacancy.
  26. Due to additional efforts to satisfy "one man, one vote"-style redistricting failing, the 1966 midterms were thrown out by a court, and a redistricting by the judiciary was conducted with new elections thereafter. The original results for the Senate yielded a 37-11 Democrat majority.
  27. Due to additional efforts to satisfy "one man, one vote"-style redistricting failing, the 1966 midterms were thrown out by a court, and a redistricting by the judiciary was conducted with new elections thereafter. The original results for the House yielded a 91-26 Democrat majority.
  28. First lieutenant governor under the state constitution of 1968 and the state's first lieutenant governor since 1889. Appointed by Governor Claude R. Kirk, Jr.
  29. Resigned in order to run for governor.
  30. Resigned to take elected seat in the United States Senate.
  31. Republican Ander Crenshaw won a special election to a vacant seat, flipping the seat from the Democrats to the Republicans.
  32. One senator changed party affiliation from Democrat to Republican in April 1992
  33. Due to the split chamber, the Senate worked out a deal where a Republican served as Senate President in 1993, and a Democrat served in 1994.
  34. One senator changed party affiliation from Democrat to Republican in February 1995
  35. Republicans gained one seat in a March 1998 special election. One senator changed party affiliation from Democrat to Republican in July 1998.
  36. Four members changed party affiliation from Democrat to Republican between May 1997 and April 1998. Republicans gained a seat in an October 1997 special election.
  37. Democrats gained a seat in a March 1999 special election. Three representatives changed party affiliation from Democrat to Republican between May and December 1999.
  38. Beginning in 2003, office was no longer elected.
  39. Beginning in 2003, replaced by Chief Financial Officer of Florida.
  40. Beginning in 2003, replaced by Chief Financial Officer of Florida.
  41. Beginning in 2003, office was no longer elected.
  42. One representative changed party affiliation from Democrat to Republican in January 2006.
  43. One representative changed party affiliation from Democrat to Republican in November 2006. Democrats gained two seats in special elections in April 2007 and February 2008.
  44. Resigned to take a job in the administration at Florida Atlantic University.
  45. Democrats gained a seat in an October 2013 special election.
  46. Democrats gained a seat in a September 2017 special election.
  47. Democrats gained a seat in a February 2018 special election.

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