Number of elections | 43 |
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Voted Democratic | 25 |
Voted Republican | 17 |
Voted Whig | 1 |
Voted other | 0 |
Voted for winning candidate | 31 |
Voted for losing candidate | 12 |
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Florida, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1845, Florida has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the election of 1864, during the American Civil War, when the state had seceded to join the Confederacy. Generally considered a bellwether state, Florida has only backed the losing candidate three times since 1928.
Winners of the state are in bold. The shading refers to the state winner.
Year | Winner (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Runner-up (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Other national candidates[a] |
Votes | Percent | Electoral Votes |
Notes |
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2020[1] | Joe Biden | 5,297,045 | 47.86 | Donald Trump | 5,668,731 | 51.22 | — | 29 | |||
2016[2] | Donald Trump[b] | 4,617,886 | 48.60 | Hillary Clinton | 4,504,975 | 47.41 | 29 | ||||
2012[3] | Barack Obama | 4,237,756 | 50.01 | Mitt Romney | 4,163,447 | 49.13 | — | 29 | |||
2008[4] | Barack Obama | 4,282,074 | 51.03 | John McCain | 4,045,624 | 48.22 | — | 27 | |||
2004[5] | George W. Bush | 3,964,522 | 52.10 | John Kerry | 3,583,544 | 47.09 | — | 27 | |||
2000[6] | George W. Bush[b] | 2,912,790 | 48.85 | Al Gore | 2,912,253 | 48.84 | — | 25 | |||
1996[7] | Bill Clinton | 2,546,870 | 48.02 | Bob Dole | 2,244,536 | 42.32 | Ross Perot | 483,870 | 9.12 | 25 | |
1992 | Bill Clinton | 2,072,698 | 39.00 | George H. W. Bush | 2,173,310 | 40.89 | Ross Perot | 1,053,067 | 19.82 | 25 | |
1988 | George H. W. Bush | 2,618,885 | 60.87 | Michael Dukakis | 1,656,701 | 38.51 | — | 21 | |||
1984 | Ronald Reagan | 2,730,350 | 65.32 | Walter Mondale | 1,448,816 | 34.66 | — | 21 | |||
1980 | Ronald Reagan | 2,046,951 | 55.52 | Jimmy Carter | 1,419,475 | 38.50 | John B. Anderson | 189,692 | 5.14 | 17 | |
1976 | Jimmy Carter | 1,636,000 | 51.93 | Gerald Ford | 1,469,531 | 46.64 | — | 17 | |||
1972 | Richard Nixon | 1,857,759 | 71.91 | George McGovern | 718,117 | 27.80 | — | 17 | |||
1968 | Richard Nixon | 886,804 | 40.53 | Hubert Humphrey | 676,794 | 30.93 | George Wallace | 624,207 | 28.53 | 14 | |
1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson | 948,540 | 51.15 | Barry Goldwater | 905,941 | 48.85 | — | 14 | |||
1960 | John F. Kennedy | 748,700 | 48.49 | Richard Nixon | 795,476 | 51.51 | — | 10 | |||
1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 643,849 | 57.27 | Adlai Stevenson II | 480,371 | 42.73 | T. Coleman Andrews/ Unpledged Electors[c] |
— | — | 10 | |
1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 544,036 | 54.99 | Adlai Stevenson II | 444,950 | 44.97 | — | 10 | |||
1948 | Harry S. Truman | 281,988 | 48.82 | Thomas E. Dewey | 194,280 | 33.63 | Strom Thurmond | 89,755 | 15.54 | 8 | |
1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 339,377 | 70.32 | Thomas E. Dewey | 143,215 | 29.68 | — | 8 | |||
1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 359,334 | 74.01 | Wendell Willkie | 126,158 | 25.99 | — | 7 | |||
1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 249,117 | 76.10 | Alf Landon | 78,248 | 23.90 | — | 7 | |||
1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 206,307 | 74.68 | Herbert Hoover | 69,170 | 25.04 | — | 7 | |||
1928 | Herbert Hoover | 144,168 | 56.83 | Al Smith | 101,764 | 40.12 | — | 6 | |||
1924 | Calvin Coolidge | 30,633 | 28.06 | John W. Davis | 62,083 | 56.88 | Robert M. La Follette | 8,625 | 7.90 | 6 | |
1920 | Warren G. Harding | 44,853 | 30.79 | James M. Cox | 90,515 | 62.13 | Parley P. Christensen | — | — | 6 | |
1916 | Woodrow Wilson | 55,984 | 69.34 | Charles E. Hughes | 14,611 | 18.10 | — | 6 | |||
1912 | Woodrow Wilson | 35,343 | 69.52 | Theodore Roosevelt | 4,555 | 8.96 | William H. Taft | 4,279 | 8.42 | 6 | |
1908 | William H. Taft | 10,654 | 21.58 | William Jennings Bryan | 31,104 | 63.01 | — | 5 | |||
1904 | Theodore Roosevelt | 8,314 | 21.48 | Alton B. Parker | 26,449 | 68.33 | — | 5 | |||
1900 | William McKinley | 7,355 | 18.55 | William Jennings Bryan | 28,273 | 71.31 | — | 4 | |||
1896 | William McKinley | 11,298 | 24.30 | William Jennings Bryan | 32,756 | 70.46 | — | 4 | |||
1892 | Grover Cleveland | 30,153 | 85.01 | Benjamin Harrison | no ballots | James B. Weaver | 4,843 | 13.65 | 4 | ||
1888 | Benjamin Harrison[b] | 26,529 | 39.89 | Grover Cleveland | 39,557 | 59.48 | — | 4 | |||
1884 | Grover Cleveland | 31,769 | 52.96 | James G. Blaine | 28,031 | 46.73 | — | 4 | |||
1880 | James A. Garfield | 23,654 | 45.83 | Winfield S. Hancock | 27,964 | 54.17 | James B. Weaver | — | — | 4 | |
1876[8] | Rutherford B. Hayes[b] | 23,849 | 50.99 | Samuel J. Tilden | 22,927 | 49.01 | — | 4 | |||
1872 | Ulysses S. Grant | 17,763 | 53.52 | Horace Greeley | 15,427 | 46.48 | — | 4 | |||
1868 | Ulysses S. Grant | n/a | n/a | Horatio Seymour | n/a | n/a | — | n/a | n/a | 3 | Allocated by state legislature.[d] |
1864 | Abraham Lincoln | No vote due to secession. | George B. McClellan | No vote due to secession. | — | — |
The election of 1860 was a complex realigning election in which the breakdown of the previous two-party alignment culminated in four parties each competing for influence in different parts of the country. The election of Abraham Lincoln, an ardent opponent of slavery, spurred the secession of eleven states and brought about the American Civil War.
Year | Winner (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Runner-up (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Runner-up (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Runner-up (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Electoral Votes |
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1860 | Abraham Lincoln | no ballots | Stephen A. Douglas | 223 | 1.7 | John C. Breckinridge | 8,277 | 62.2 | John Bell | 4,801 | 36.1 | 3 |
Year | Winner (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Runner-up (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Other national candidates[a] |
Votes | Percent | Electoral Votes |
Notes |
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1856 | James Buchanan | 6,358 | 56.81 | John C. Frémont | no ballots | Millard Fillmore | 4,833 | 43.19 | 3 | ||
1852 | Franklin Pierce | 4,318 | 60.03 | Winfield Scott | 2,875 | 39.97 | John P. Hale | no ballots | 3 | ||
1848 | Zachary Taylor | 4,120 | 57.2 | Lewis Cass | 3,083 | 42.8 | Martin Van Buren | no ballots | 3 |