Florida’s Updated Voter Registration by Party – November 28th, 2023
Bottom Line: We’re now a little over 11 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. 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. The most recent update from Florida’s Division of Elections reflects voter registration information statewide entering November.
These are the year-to-date voter registration changes:
- DEM: -454,503 (-82,895 last month)
- GOP: -158,427 (-29,383 last month)
- NPA/Other: -370,598 (-86,644 last month)
The current breakout of registered voters looks like this...
- DEM: 33%
- GOP: 38%
- NPA/Other: 29%
The great off election year purge of registered voters continued in Florida in October 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 as the trend has only worsened for Florida’s Democrats as the year has progressed. The result is yet another record Republican voter advantage within the state.
The Republican advantage over Democrats now stands at a record high 680,030 voters. That includes a net change of 53,512 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.