Florida’s Updated Voter Registration by Party – October 19th, 2023
Bottom Line: It’s only been two weeks since the previous monthly update from the Florida Division of Elections, however after the slightly delayed updating of voter registrations from August, the state’s election officials are back on schedule. The just released update is for all eligible voter registrations through September. 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: -371,608 (-61,284 last month)
- GOP: -129,044 (-23,696 last month)
- NPA/Other: -283,954 (-70,745 last month)
The current breakout of registered voters looks like this...
- DEM: 33.1%
- GOP: 37.7%
- NPA/Other: 29.2%
The great off election year purge of registered voters continued in Florida in September with significant declines in registered voters generally, however, as has been the case throughout the year, there was one party that shouldered a far larger loss of voters.
Voter registrations have been on the decline throughout the year as a 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. Democrats once again had their worst month of the year in September. The result is yet another record Republican voter advantage within the state.
The Republican advantage over Democrats now stands at a record high 626,518 voters, with a net change of 37,588 to the advantage of the GOP in August. Of Florida’s 67 counties – only 12 currently have Democrat majorities by way of voter registration.