Florida’s Updated Voter Registration by Party – October 5th, 2023
Bottom Line: The Florida Division of Elections has provided the update for all eligible voter registrations through August. 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: -310,324 (-58,243 last month)
- GOP: -105,348 (-37,364 last month)
- NPA/Other: -213,209 (-70,993 last month)
The current breakout of registered voters looks like this...
- DEM: 33.2%
- GOP: 37.4%
- NPA/Other: 29.4%
Voter registrations dropped significantly across the board in August as voter rolls continued to reflect a purging of registered voters which moved out-of-state, became inactive or died. This is the result 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. But as illustrated, the losses have been far from equitable. Democrats had their worst month of the year and have now lost more than 300,000 registered voters this year which is close to 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 588,930 voters, with a net change of about 21,000 to the advantage of the GOP in August. Of Florida’s 67 counties – only 12 currently have Democrat majorities by way of voter registration.