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Florida’s Voter Registration By Party – September 22nd, 2021
Bottom Line: The Florida Division of Election’s latest voter registration update is in reflecting all voter registrations as of August 31st. The purging of partisans from voter rolls continued in August and once again, the changes were significant - though the overall trends remained intact. Democrats continued to shed the most voters while Republicans shed fewer, once again leaving Democrats with their smallest advantage in voter registration in Florida’s history. Remarkably, despite an influx of over a thousand new residents per day, there are a total of 286,721 fewer registered voters year to date. That’s the result of voters having been removed from rolls by the state as they reconcile those currently eligible to vote in Florida along with a lack of urgency for new voter registrations in an off-election year.
These are the changes in year-to-date voter registration information:
- DEM: -184,640 (-74,451 from prior month)
- GOP: -110,976 (-43,956 from prior month)
- NPA/Other: +8,895 (-40,474 from prior month)
While the most popular choice for newly registered or reregistered voters has been none of the above in 2021, and that remained the case in August, Democrat defections were once again huge. Democrats lost 30,495 more registered voters than Republicans during the month and have now lost 73,664 more voters than Republicans this year. This continues the multiyear gains by Republicans relative to Democrats in our state. Most notably, the Democrat’s advantage in voter registrations is the lowest in Florida’s history while the percentage of registered NPA’s is the largest in Florida’s history.
The current breakout of registered voters looks like this...
- DEM: 35.9%
- GOP: 35.8%
- NPA/Other: 28.3%
Democrats now retain only a 0.1% advantage over Republicans in voter registration or 23,551 voters. This supports the notion that Florida’s increasingly moving from being a purple state into red state territory. At current trends that could become a voter registration reality as soon as next month. This development is especially notable if it continues heading into the 2022 election cycle. Until next month...