Florida’s Updated Voter Registration by Party – January 4th, 2024
Bottom Line: We’re now only about 10 months away from Election Day and Florida’s voter registration trends haven’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. At the onset of 2023 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. The most recent update from Florida’s Division of Elections reflects voter registration information statewide entering December.
These are the voter registration changes for 2023 through November:
- DEM: -467,337 (-12,834 last month)
- GOP: -153,369 (+5,058 last month)
- NPA/Other: -370,598 (-5,372 last month)
The current breakout of registered voters looks like this...
- DEM: 32.9%
- GOP: 38.1%
- NPA/Other: 29%
The great off election year purge of registered voters continued in Florida in November – though not for Republicans where gains were made during the month. Voter registrations declined 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 performed worst. The result is yet another record Republican voter advantage within the state.
The Republican advantage over Democrats now stands at 697,922 voters. That includes a net change of 17,892 to the advantage of Republicans over the past month. Of Florida’s 67 counties – only 12 currently have Democrat majorities by way of voter registration.