Florida’s Updated Voter Registration by Party – August 2023
Bottom Line: The Florida Division of Elections has provided the update for all eligible voter registrations through July. The trend hasn’t been the friend of Florida’s Democrats in recent years. For the better part of twenty years Republicans steadily ate away at the voter registration advantage Florida’s Democrats had held since the onset of partisan voter record keeping in the 1970’s. By November of 2021, amid massive pandemic induced relocations, Republican voter registrations outnumbered Democrats for the first time. And every month since the GOP advantage by way of voter registration has grown. Earlier this year, Florida’s Democrats opted to head in a new direction with party leadership tapping former Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried to lead the party going forward. It’s safe to say that hasn’t turned the tide back towards Democrats in Florida.
These are the year-to-date voter registration information:
- DEM: -252,081 (-45,384 last month)
- GOP: -67,984 (-19,131 last month)
- NPA/Other: -142,216 (-43,319 last month)
The current breakout of registered voters looks like this...
- DEM: 33.2%
- GOP: 37.3%
- NPA/Other: 29.5%
Voter registrations dropped significantly across the board in July as voter rolls reflected a purging of registered voters which moved out-of-state, become inactive or died. The combination of the cleaning up of voter rolls, along with the lack of a catalyst with newly relocated or age eligible voters in a non-election year, has led to a loss of greater than 460k voters year-to-date. But as illustrated, the losses have been far from equitable. Democrats have now lost more than a quarter-million registered voters this year which is greater than the total losses of NPA and Republican voters combined. The net result is yet another record Republican voter advantage within the state.
The Republican advantage relative to Democrats now stands at a record 541,798 voters, with a net change of about 26,000 to the advantage of the GOP in July. Of Florida’s 67 counties – only 13 currently have Democrat majorities by way of voter registration.