Political party strength in Florida facts for kids
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Florida:
- Governor
- Lieutenant Governor
- Secretary of State
- Attorney General
- State Treasurer/Insurance Commissioner/Fire Marshal, Comptroller, and Chief Financial Officer
- Commissioner of Agriculture
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- State Senate
- State House of Representatives
- State delegation to the U.S. Senate
- State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
The parties are as follows: Conservative (C), Democratic (D), Independent (I), no party (N), Prohibition (P), Republican (R), and Whig (W).
| Year | Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | Electoral College votes | ||||||||||
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| Governor | Lt. Governor | Sec. of State | Attorney General | Comptroller | Treasurer | Comm. of Ed. | Comm. of Ag. | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | ||
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| 1845 | William D. Moseley (D) | no such office | James T. Archer (D) | Joseph Branch | Nathanial P. Bemis | Benjamin Byrd | no such office | no such office | 11D, 6W | 30D, 10W, 1? | David Levy Yulee | James Westcott | ||
| 1846 | Augustus Maxwell (D) | Hugh Archer | ||||||||||||
| 1847 | Nathanial P. Bemis | 12D, 7W | 22D, 17W | |||||||||||
| Hugh Archer | ||||||||||||||
| 1848 | Augustus Maxwell (D) | James T. Archer (D) | Simon Towle | William R. Hayward | 12W, 7D | 21W, 11D, 7? | ||||||||
| 1849 | Thomas Brown (W) | Charles W. Downing, Jr. | David P. Hogue | 24W, 16D | ||||||||||
| 1850 | ||||||||||||||
| 1851 | John Beard | 10D, 9W | 21D, 19W | Stephen Mallory | ||||||||||
| 1852 | ||||||||||||||
| 1853 | James E. Broome (D) | Frederick L. Villepigue | Mariano D. Papy | Vacant | 12D, 6W, 1I | 26D, 13W, 1 vac. | ||||||||
| 1854 | Theodore W. Brevard | |||||||||||||
| James T. Archer (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1855 | Theodore W. Brevard | 11D, 7W, 1 vac. | 23D, 17W, 1? | |||||||||||
| 1856 | ||||||||||||||
| 1857 | Madison S. Perry (D) | 13D, 7A, 1? | 29D, 16A | |||||||||||
| 1858 | ||||||||||||||
| 1859 | 15D, 6O | 35D, 10O | ||||||||||||
| 1860 | Robert C. Williams | |||||||||||||
| 1861 | John Milton (D) | John B. Galbraith | 13D, 8O | 37D, 10O | Vacant | |||||||||
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| 1863 | Benjamin F. Allen | Walter Gwynn | American Civil War | |||||||||||
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| 1865 | Abraham K. Allison (D) | |||||||||||||
| William Marvin (N) | ||||||||||||||
| 1866 | David S. Walker (C) | William W. J. Kelly (R) | John Beard | 21N | 47N | |||||||||
| 1867 | ||||||||||||||
| 1868 | George J. Alden | Charles H. Austin | ||||||||||||
| Harrison Reed (R) | William Henry Gleason (R) | Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs (R) | James Westcott III (D) | Robert H. Gamble | Simon B. Conover | Adonijah Welch | ||||||||
| 1869 | vacant | A. R. Meek | 16R, 8D | 37R, 15D | ||||||||||
| 1870 | Edmund C. Weeks (R) | Sherman Conant | ||||||||||||
| 1871 | Samuel T. Day (R) | J.B.C. Drew | 11R, 10D | 23R, 20D | ||||||||||
| 1872 | H. Bisbee, Jr. | |||||||||||||
| J.P.C. Emmons | ||||||||||||||
| 1873 | Ossian B. Hart (R) | Marcellus Stearns (R) | Samuel B. Mclin | William A. Cocke | Clayton Cowgill | Charles H. Foster | 13R, 11D | 29R, 23D | ||||||
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| Marcellus Sterns (R) | vacant | |||||||||||||
| 1875 | 12D, 12R | 28D, 24R | ||||||||||||
| 1876 | ||||||||||||||
| 1877 | George F. Drew (D) | Noble A. Hull (D) | William D. Bloxham (D) | George P. Raney (D) | Columbus Drew | Walter H. Gwynn (D) | 15D, 9R | 31D, 21R | ||||||
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| 1879 | 25D, 7R | 46D, 28R, 1I, 1 tied | ||||||||||||
| 1880 | Frederick W. A. Rankin, Jr. | |||||||||||||
| 1881 | William D. Bloxham (D) | L. W. Bethel | John Lovic Crawford | William D. Barnes | Henry A. L'Engle | 27D, 5R | 58D, 18R | |||||||
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| 1883 | 17D, 9I, 6R | 34D, 27R, 15I | ||||||||||||
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| 1885 | Edward A. Perry (R) | Milton Mabry | C.M. Cooper | Edward S. Crill | 17D, 8I, 7R | 48D, 25R, 3I | ||||||||
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| 1887 | 24D, 5R, 3I | 55D, 13R, 8I | ||||||||||||
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| 1889 | Francis P. Fleming (D) | William Bailey Lamar (D) | Francis J. Pons | 27D, 5R | 58D, 9R, 9I | |||||||||
| 1890 | William D. Bloxham (D) | |||||||||||||
| 1891 | E. J. Triay | 31D, 1R | 76D | |||||||||||
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| 1893 | Henry L. Mitchell (D) | Clarence B. Collins | ||||||||||||
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| 1895 | 31D, 1P | 74D, 1R, 1I | ||||||||||||
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| 1897 | William D. Bloxham (D) | William H. Reynolds | James B. Whitfield (D) | 63D, 3R, 2I | ||||||||||
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| 1899 | 32D | 68D | ||||||||||||
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| 1901 | William S. Jennings (D) | A. C. Croom | ||||||||||||
| 1902 | Henry Clay Crawford (D) | |||||||||||||
| 1903 | James B. Whitfield (D) | William V. Knott (D) | 67D, 1R | |||||||||||
| 1904 | W.H. Ellis | |||||||||||||
| 1905 | Napoleon B. Broward (D) | 68D | ||||||||||||
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| 1907 | 67D, 1 Soc. | |||||||||||||
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| 1909 | Albert W. Gilchrist (D) | Park Trammell (D) | ||||||||||||
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| 1911 | 68D | |||||||||||||
| 1912 | William V. Knott (D) | J.C. Luning (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1913 | Park Trammell (D) | Thomas F. West | 71D | |||||||||||
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| 1915 | 73D | |||||||||||||
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| 1917 | Sidney Johnston Catts (P) | Van C. Swearingen | Ernest Amos | 74D, 1R | Park Trammell (D) | 4D | ||||||||
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| 1919 | 77D | |||||||||||||
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| 1921 | Cary A. Hardee (D) | Rivers Buford | ||||||||||||
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| 1923 | Nathan Mayo (D) | |||||||||||||
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| 1925 | John W. Martin (D) | J.B. Johnson | 84D | |||||||||||
| 1926 | 87D | |||||||||||||
| 1927 | Fred Henry Davis (D) | 95D | ||||||||||||
| 1928 | William V. Knott (D) | |||||||||||||
| 1929 | Doyle E. Carlton (D) | William Monroe Igou | 37D, 1R | 93D, 2R | ||||||||||
| 1930 | Robert Andrew Gray | |||||||||||||
| 1931 | Cary D. Landis | 38D | 95D | |||||||||||
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner (D)  |
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| 1933 | David Sholtz (D) | James Martin Lee | 94D, 1R | 5D | ||||||||||
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| 1935 | 95D | |||||||||||||
| 1936 | Scott Loftin (D) | William Luther Hill (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1937 | Fred P. Cone (D) | Charles O. Andrews (D) | Claude Pepper (D) | |||||||||||
| 1938 | George Couper Gibbs | |||||||||||||
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| 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry A. Wallace (D) |
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| 1941 | Spessard Holland (D) | J. Thomas Watson (D) | J. Edwin Larson | |||||||||||
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| 1943 | 6D | |||||||||||||
| 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (D) |
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| 1945 | Millard F. Caldwell (D) | |||||||||||||
| 1946 | Clarence M. Gay | Spessard Holland (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1947 | 94D, 1R | |||||||||||||
| 1948 | Harry Truman and Alben Barkley (D) |
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| 1949 | Fuller Warren (D) | Richard Ervin (D) | 95D | |||||||||||
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| 1951 | 92D, 3R | George Smathers (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1952 | Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon (R) |
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| 1953 | Daniel T. McCarty (D) | 37D, 1R | 90D, 5R | 8D | ||||||||||
| Charley Eugene Johns (D) | ||||||||||||||
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| 1955 | LeRoy Collins (D) | Ray E. Green | 89D, 6R | 7D, 1R | ||||||||||
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| 1959 | 92D, 3R | |||||||||||||
| 1960 | Lee Thompson (D) | Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (R)  |
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| 1961 | C. Farris Bryant (D) | Thomas Burton Adams, Jr. (D) | Doyle Conner (D) | 88D, 7R | ||||||||||
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| 1963 | 41D, 2R | 109D, 16R | 10D, 2R | |||||||||||
| 1964 | James W. Kynes (D) | Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey (D) |
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| 1965 | W. Haydon Burns (D) | Earl Faircloth (D) | Fred Otis Dickinson | Broward Williams | 102D, 10R | |||||||||
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| 1967 | Claude R. Kirk, Jr. (R) | 28D, 20R | 80D, 39R | 9D, 3R | ||||||||||
| 1968 | Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (R) |
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| 1969 | Ray C. Osborn (R) | 32D, 16R | 77D, 42R | Edward J. Gurney (R) | ||||||||||
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| 1971 | Reubin Askew (D) | Thomas Burton Adams, Jr. (D) | Richard Stone (D) | Robert Shevin (D) | 33D, 15R | 81D, 38R | Lawton Chiles (D) | |||||||
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| 1973 | 25D, 14R, 1I | 77D, 43R | 11D, 4R | |||||||||||
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| 1975 | J. H. Williams (D) | Bruce Smathers (D) | Gerald A. Lewis (D) | Philip F. Ashler | 27D, 12R, 1I | 86D, 34R | Richard Stone (D) | 10D, 5R | ||||||
| 1976 | Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale (D) |
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| 1977 | 30D, 9R, 1I | 92D, 28R | ||||||||||||
| 1978 | Jesse J. McCrary, Jr. (D) | |||||||||||||
| 1979 | Bob Graham (D) | Wayne Mixson (D) | George Firestone (D) | James C. Smith (D) | Bill Gunter (D) | 29D, 11R | 89D, 31R | 12D, 3R | ||||||
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush (R) |
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| 1981 | 27D, 13R | 81D, 39R | Paula Hawkins (R) | 11D, 4R | ||||||||||
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| 1983 | 32D, 8R | 84D, 36R | 13D, 6R | |||||||||||
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| 1985 | 31D, 9R | 77D, 43R | 12D, 7R | |||||||||||
| 1986 | 30D, 10R | |||||||||||||
| 1987 | Wayne Mixson (D) | 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) |
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| 1989 | Tom Gallagher (R) | 23D, 17R | 70D, 50R | Connie Mack III (R) | 11R, 8D | |||||||||
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| 1991 | Lawton Chiles (D) | Buddy MacKay (D) | 74D, 46R | 10R, 9D | ||||||||||
| 1992 | 22D, 18R | George H.W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) |
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| 1993 | 20D, 20R | 71D, 49R | 13R, 10D | |||||||||||
| 1994 | Douglas L. Jamerson (D) | |||||||||||||
| 1995 | Sandra Mortham (R) | Bob Milligan (R) | Bill Nelson (D) | Frank Brogan (R) | Bob Crawford (D) | 22R, 18D | 63D, 57R | 15R, 8D | ||||||
| 1996 | Bill Clinton and Al Gore (D) |
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| 1997 | 61R, 59D | |||||||||||||
| 1998 | 66R, 54D | |||||||||||||
| 1999 | Buddy MacKay (D) | vacant | Katherine Harris (R) | Tom Gallagher (R) | 23R, 17D | 73R, 47D | ||||||||
| Jeb Bush (R) | Frank Brogan (R) | |||||||||||||
| 2000 | George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (R) |
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| 2001 | Tom Gallagher (R) | Charlie Crist (R) | Charles H. Bronson (R) | 25R, 15D | 77R, 43D | Bill Nelson (D) | ||||||||
| 2002 | Richard E. Doran | |||||||||||||
| 2003 | Toni Jennings (R) | appointed position | Charlie Crist (R) | Tom Gallagher (R) | appointed position | 26R, 14D | 81R, 39D | 18R, 7D | ||||||
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| 2005 | 84R, 36D | Mel Martinez (R) | ||||||||||||
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| 2007 | Charlie Crist (R) | Jeff Kottkamp (R) | Bill McCollum (R) | Alex Sink (D) | 78R, 42D | 16R, 9D | ||||||||
| 2008 | Barack Obama and Joe Biden (D) |
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| 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) | Adam Putnam (R) | 28R, 12D | 81R, 39D | Marco Rubio (R) | 19R, 6D | |||||
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| 2013 | 26R, 14D | 76R, 44D | 17R, 10D | |||||||||||
| 75R, 45D | ||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Carlos López-Cantera (R) | |||||||||||||
| 2015 | 81R, 39D | |||||||||||||
| 2016 | Donald Trump and Mike Pence (R) |
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| 2017 | 25R, 15D | 79R, 41D | 16R, 11D | |||||||||||
| Year | Governor | Lt. Governor | Sec. of State | Attorney General | Comptroller | Treasurer | Comm. of Ed. | Comm. of Ag. | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | Electoral College votes |
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| Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | ||||||||||||
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