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Last updated: Oct. 21, 2024
Thousands of general elections are taking place across the United States on Nov. 5, 2024. Those elections include offices at the federal, state, and local levels. This is one of 50 pages in which Ballotpedia previews the elections happening in each state as part of the Daily Brew’s 50 states in 25 days series.
This page provides an overview of all elections happening in Florida within our coverage scope on Nov. 5, 2024. Those elections include offices for 28 U.S. Representatives, one U.S. Senator, 120 state Representatives, 20 state Senators, two State Supreme Court Justices, and 23 Intermediate Appellate Court Justices. Additionally, there are six statewide ballot measure on the ballot in Florida. On this page, you will also find information regarding:
- How to vote in Florida
- The elected offices that Florida voters can expect to see on their ballots
- The races in Florida that Ballotpedia is covering as battlegrounds
- The ballot measures that voters in Florida will decide on
- Ballotpedia's Sample Ballot Lookup Tool
- The partisan balance of Florida's congressional delegation and state government
- Past presidential election results in Florida
- The competitiveness of legislative elections in Florida
- The candidates who are on the ballot in Florida
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Florida
What's on the ballot?
2024 elections
- See also: Florida elections, 2024
At the federal level, Florida voters will elect 28 U.S. Representatives and one U.S. Senator. One U.S. House district is open because the incumbent did not run for re-election.
All 120 seats in the House and 20 seats in the Senate are up for election. There are 23 open seats in the House and 8 open seats in the Senate.
Florida voters will decide on six ballot measures.
Florida is holding school board elections this year. Florida is one of 26 states where we are expanding our local election coverage beyond the nation's biggest cities, school districts, and state capitals. We are covering Florida school board elections in 25 school districts.
At the municipal level, the cities of Jacksonville, Orlando, St. Petersburg, and Tallahassee, and the counties of Hillsborough County, Miami-Dade County, Orange County, and Pinellas County are holding elections.
Below is a list of Florida elections covered by Ballotpedia in 2024. Click the links to learn more about each type:
| Florida elections, 2024 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Office | Elections? | More information |
| U.S. Senate | ✓ | Click here |
| U.S. House | ✓ | Click here |
| Congress special election | — | — |
| Governor | — | — |
| Other state executive | — | — |
| State Senate | ✓ | Click here |
| State House | ✓ | Click here |
| Special state legislative | ✓ | Click here |
| State Supreme Court | ✓ | Click here |
| Intermediate appellate courts | ✓ | Click here |
| School boards | ✓ | Click here |
| Municipal government | ✓ | Click here |
| Recalls | ✓ | Click here |
| Ballot measures | ✓ | Click here |
| Local ballot measures | ✓ | Click here |
Legend: ✓ election(s) / — no elections
Subject to Ballotpedia's scope
Your ballot
- See also: Sample Ballot Lookup
Noteworthy elections
As of Oct. 21, 2024, Ballotpedia has identified three elections as battleground races. Those are the races that we expect to have a meaningful effect on the balance of power in governments or to be particularly competitive or compelling.
- City elections in Tallahassee, Florida (2024)
- Pinellas County Schools, Florida, elections (2024)
- Sheriff election in Miami-Dade County, Florida (2024)
Ballot measures
- See also: Florida 2024 ballot measures
There is are six ballot measures on the ballot in Florida.
| Type | Title | Description | Result | Yes Votes | No Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amendment 1 | Change school board elections from nonpartisan to partisan beginning in 2026 |
|
5,492,993 (55%) |
4,512,372 (45%) |
|
| Amendment 2 | Provide for a state constitutional right to hunt and fish |
|
6,941,307 (67%) |
3,365,987 (33%) |
|
| Amendment 3 | Legalize the recreational or personal use of marijuana |
|
5,950,589 (56%) |
4,693,524 (44%) |
|
| Amendment 4 | Provide for a state constitutional right to abortion before fetal viability |
|
6,070,758 (57%) |
4,548,379 (43%) |
|
| Amendment 5 | Provide for an annual inflation adjustment for the value of the homestead property tax exemption |
|
6,687,238 (66%) |
3,441,658 (34%) |
|
| Amendment 6 | Repeal a constitutional provision providing for public campaign financing for candidates who agree to spending limits |
|
5,032,882 (50%) |
4,955,737 (50%) |
Eighty-one ballot measures were on the ballot in Florida from 2000 to 2022. Voters approved 56 measures and defeated 25.
State analysis
Partisan balance
Republicans represent 20 districts in Florida's U.S. House delegation, and Democrats represent eight. In the U.S. House, Republicans have a 220-212 majority with three vacancies.
Both of Florida's U.S. Senators—Rick Scott and Marco Rubio—are Republicans. Democrats have a majority in the U.S. Senate. There are 47 Democrats, 49 Republicans, and four independents. Three independents caucus with the Democratic Party, and one other counts towards the Democratic majority for committee purposes.
Republicans have a 28-12 majority in the state Senate and an 84-36 majority in the state House. Republicans have had majorities in both chambers of the state legislature since 1997.
Because the governor is a Republican, Florida is one of 23 states with a Republican trifecta. It has held this status since 2011, when Rick Scott (R) became governor. Florida's attorney general and secretary of state are also Republicans. This makes Florida one of 25 states with a Republican triplex.
Past presidential election results in Florida
- See also: Presidential election in Florida, 2024
How a state's counties vote in a presidential election and the size of those counties can provide additional insights into election outcomes at other levels of government including statewide and congressional races. Below, four categories are used to describe each county's voting pattern over the 2012, 2016, and 2020 presidential elections: Solid, Trending, Battleground, and New. Click [show] on the table below for examples:
| County-level voting pattern categories | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Democratic | D | D | D | ||||
| Trending Democratic | R | D | D | ||||
| Battleground Democratic | D | R | D | ||||
| New Democratic | R | R | D | ||||
| Republican | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Republican | R | R | R | ||||
| Trending Republican | D | R | R | ||||
| Battleground Republican | R | D | R | ||||
| New Republican | D | D | R | ||||
Following the 2020 presidential election, 46.6% of Floridians lived in one of the state's nine Solid Democratic counties, which voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in every election from 2012 to 2020, and 40.2% lived in one of 52 Solid Republican counties. Overall, Florida was Trending Republican, having voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2012, Donald Trump (R) in 2016, and Donald Trump (R) in 2020. Use the table below to view the total number of each type of county in Florida following the 2020 election as well as the overall percentage of the state population located in each county type.
| Florida county-level statistics, 2020 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solid Democratic | 9 | 46.6% | |||||
| Solid Republican | 52 | 40.2% | |||||
| New Democratic | 2 | 6.8% | |||||
| Battleground Democratic | 1 | 4.5% | |||||
| Trending Republican | 3 | 2.0% | |||||
| Total voted Democratic | 12 | 57.8% | |||||
| Total voted Republican | 55 | 42.2% | |||||
State legislative competitiveness
According to Ballotpedia's annual state legislative competitiveness report, Florida had a Competitiveness Index of 39.7, ranking it 14th of the 44 states that held elections.
- 31 of the 140 seats up for election were open (22%).
- 13 of the 109 incumbents who ran for re-election faced contested primaries (12%).
- 119 of the 140 seats up for election were contested by both major parties (85%).
2010-2024
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| State Legislative Competitiveness Index in Florida, 2010-2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Open seats | Incs. in contested primaries | Major party competition | Competitiveness Index | Rank | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | 32.2% | 18.6% | 49.7% | 33.5 | 20 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | 33.1% | 28.2% | 45.0% | 35.4 | 24 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | 12.9% | 17.2% | 40.7% | 23.6 | 34 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | 38.8% | 14.3% | 45.6% | 32.9 | 20 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | 27.1% | 18.6% | 65.7% | 37.1 | 20 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2020 | 28.6% | 17.0% | 80.0% | 41.9 | 5 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | 29.4% | 28.1% | 56.3% | 37.9 | 17 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | 22.1% | 11.9% | 85.0% | 39.7 | 14 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
In 2024
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| State Legislative Competitiveness Index in Florida, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chamber | Open seats | Incs. in contested primaries | Major party competition | Competitiveness Index | ||||||||||||||||||||
| House | 19.2% | 10.3% | 85.0% | 38.2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Senate | 40.0% | 25.0% | 85.0% | 50.0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 22.1% | 11.9% | 85.0% | 39.7 | ||||||||||||||||||||
List of candidates
See also
Footnotes
