Political party strength in Florida

The following tables indicate party affiliation in the U.S. state of Florida for the individual elected offices of:

• Governor
• Lieutenant Governor
• Attorney General
• Chief Financial Officer
• Commissioner of Agriculture

As well as the following historical offices that were elected from 1889 to 2005:

• Secretary of State
• Comptroller
• Treasurer/Insurance Commissioner/Fire Marshal
• Commissioner of Education (called the Superintendent of Public Instruction before 1969)

The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:

• State Senate
• State House of Representatives
• State delegation to the U.S. Senate (individually)
• State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives

For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes. For the Civil War years, the table indicates the state's delegation to the Confederate Congress, in lieu of the U.S. Congress.

The parties are shaded as follows:   Democratic (D),   Republican (R),   Whig (W),   Prohibition (P), and   Independent (I) or nonpartisan.

1845–1888

Year	Executive offices		State Legislature		United States Congress			Electoral College votes
	Governor	Lt. Governor	State Senate	State House	U.S. Senator (Class I)	U.S. Senator (Class III)	U.S. House
1845	William D. Moseley (D)	no such office	11D, 6W	30D, 10W, 1?	David Levy Yulee (D)	James Westcott (D)	1W / 1D[1]
1846
1847			12D, 7W	22D, 17W			1W
1848			12W, 7D	21W, 11D, 7?				Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore (W)
1849	Thomas Brown (W)			24W, 16D		Jackson Morton (W)
1850
1851			10D, 9W	21D, 19W	Stephen Mallory (D)
1852								Franklin Pierce and William R. King (D)
1853	James E. Broome (D)		12D, 6W, 1I	26D, 13W, 1 vac.			1D
1854
1855			11D, 7W, 1 vac.	23D, 17W, 1?		David Levy Yulee (D)
1856								James Buchanan and John C. Breckinridge (D)
1857	Madison S. Perry (D)		13D, 7A, 1?	29D, 16A
1858
1859			15D, 6O	35D, 10O
1860								John C. Breckinridge and Joseph Lane (Southern Democratic) N
1861	John Milton (D)[2]		13D, 8O	37D, 10O	vacant during Civil War
1862					James McNair Baker (Fmr. W/KN)[3]	Augustus Emmett Maxwell (Fmr. D)[3]	2 Fmr. D[3]
1863
1864								Civil War
1865	Abraham K. Allison (D)[4][5]
	vacant				vacant during Reconstruction
	William Marvin (D)[6]
	vacant
1866	David S. Walker[7]	William W. J. Kelly (R)	21N	47N	William Marvin (D)[8]	Wilkinson Call (D)[8]	Frederick McLeod (D)[8]
1867					vacant during Reconstruction
1868
	Harrison Reed (R)[9]	William Henry Gleason (R)	16R, 8D	37R, 15D	Adonijah Welch (R)	Thomas W. Osborn (R)	1R	Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax (R)
1869		vacant			Abijah Gilbert (R)
1870		Edmund C. Weeks (R)
1871		Samuel T. Day (R)	11R, 10D[10]	23R, 20D[11]			1R / 1D[12]
1872								Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson (R)
1873	Ossian B. Hart (R)[13]	Marcellus Stearns (R)	13R, 11D	29R, 23D		Simon B. Conover (R)	2R
1874	Marcellus Sterns (R)[14]	vacant
1875			12D, 12R	28D, 24R	Charles W. Jones (D)		2R / 1D, 1R[15]
1876								Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler (R)
1877	George F. Drew (D)	Noble A. Hull (D)	15D, 9R	31D, 21R			1D, 1R / 2D[16]
1878
1879			25D, 7R	46D, 28R, 1I, 1 tied		Wilkinson Call (D)	2D / 1D, 1R[17]
1880								Winfield Scott Hancock and William Hayden English (D) N
1881	William D. Bloxham (D)	L. W. Bethel (D)	27D, 5R	58D, 18R			2D / 1D, 1R[18]
1882
1883			17D, 9I, 6R	34D, 27R, 15I[19]			1D, 1R
1884								Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks (D)
1885	Edward A. Perry (D)	Milton Mabry (D)	17D, 8I, 7R	48D, 25R, 3I			2D
1886
1887			24D, 5R, 3I	55D, 13R, 8I	Samuel Pasco (D)
1888								Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman (D) N
Year	Governor	Lt. Governor	State Senate	State House	U.S. Senator (Class I)	U.S. Senator (Class III)	U.S. House	Electoral College votes
Executive offices		State Legislature		United States Congress

1889–2002

Year	Executive offices								State Legislature		United States Congress			Electoral College votes
	Governor	Lt. Governor	Sec. of State	Attorney General	Comptroller	Treasurer	Comm. of Ed.	Comm. of Ag.	State Senate	State House	U.S. Senator (Class I)	U.S. Senator (Class III)	U.S. House
1889	Francis P. Fleming (D)	no such office	John Lovic Crawford (D)	William Bailey Lamar (D)	William D. Barnes (D)	Francis J. Pons (D)	Albert J. Russell (D)	Lucius B. Wombwell (D)	27D, 5R	58D, 9R, 9I	Samuel Pasco (D)	Wilkinson Call (D)	2D	Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman (D) N
1890					William D. Bloxham (D)
1891						E. J. Triay (D)			31D, 1R	76D
1892														Grover Cleveland and Adlai Stevenson I (D)
1893	Henry L. Mitchell (D)					Clarence B. Collins (D)	William N. Sheats (D)
1894
1895									31D, 1P	74D, 1R, 1I
1896														William Jennings Bryan and Arthur Sewall (D) N
1897	William D. Bloxham (D)				William H. Reynolds (D)	James B. Whitfield (D)				63D, 3R, 2I		Stephen Mallory II (D)[13]
1898
1899									32D	68D	James Taliaferro (D)
1900														William Jennings Bryan and Adlai Stevenson I (D) N
1901	William S. Jennings (D)				A. C. Croom (D)			Benjamin E. McLin (D)
1902			Henry Clay Crawford (D)[20]
1903				James B. Whitfield (D)		William V. Knott (D)				67D, 1R			3D
1904				W.H. Ellis (D)										Alton B. Parker and Henry G. Davis (D) N
1905	Napoleon B. Broward (D)						William N. Holloway (D)			68D
1906
1907										67D, 1 Soc.		William J. Bryan (D)[13]
1908												William H. Milton (D)		William Jennings Bryan and John W. Kern (D) N
1909	Albert W. Gilchrist (D)			Park Trammell (D)								Duncan U. Fletcher (D)[13]
1910
1911										68D	Nathan Philemon Bryan (D)
1912					William V. Knott (D)	J.C. Luning (D)		J.C. Luning (D)						Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall (D)
1913	Park Trammell (D)			Thomas F. West (D)			William N. Sheats (D)	William Allen McRae (D)		71D			4D
1914
1915										73D
1916
1917	Sidney Johnston Catts (P)			Van C. Swearingen (D)	Ernest Amos (D)					74D, 1R	Park Trammell (D)
1918
1919										77D
1920														James M. Cox and Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) N
1921	Cary A. Hardee (D)			Rivers Buford (D)
1922							William S. Cawthon (D)
1923								Nathan Mayo (D)
1924														John W. Davis and Charles W. Bryan (D) N
1925	John W. Martin (D)			J.B. Johnson (D)						84D
1926										87D[21]
1927				Fred Henry Davis (D)						95D
1928						William V. Knott (D)								Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis (R)
1929	Doyle E. Carlton (D)		William Monroe Igou (D)						37D, 1R	93D, 2R
1930			R.A. Gray (D)
1931				Cary D. Landis (D)					38D	95D
1932														Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner (D)
1933	David Sholtz (D)				James Martin Lee (D)					94D, 1R			5D
1934
1935										95D
1936											Scott Loftin (D)	William Luther Hill (D)
1937	Fred P. Cone (D)						Colin English (D)				Charles O. Andrews (D)	Claude Pepper (D)
1938				George Couper Gibbs (D)
1939
1940														Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry A. Wallace (D)
1941	Spessard Holland (D)			J. Thomas Watson (D)		J. Edwin Larson (D)
1942
1943													6D
1944														Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (D)
1945	Millard F. Caldwell (D)
1946					Clarence M. Gay (D)						Spessard Holland (D)
1947										94D, 1R
1948														Harry Truman and Alben Barkley (D)
1949	Fuller Warren (D)			Richard Ervin (D)[22]			Thomas D. Bailey (D)			95D
1950
1951										92D, 3R		George Smathers (D)
1952														Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon (R)
1953	Daniel T. McCarty (D)[13]	37D, 1R							90D, 5R	8D
	Charley Eugene Johns (D)[4]
1954
1955	LeRoy Collins (D)				Ray E. Green (D)				89D, 6R	7D, 1R
1956
1957
1958
1959									92D, 3R
1960								Lee Thompson (D)					Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (R) N
1961	C. Farris Bryant (D)		Thomas Burton Adams, Jr. (D)					Doyle Conner (D)	88D, 7R
1962
1963		41D, 2R[23]							109D, 16R[24]	10D, 2R
1964				James W. Kynes (D)[25]									Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey (D)
1965	W. Haydon Burns (D)			Earl Faircloth (D)	Fred O. Dickinson (D)	Broward Williams (D)	Floyd T. Christian (D)		102D, 10R
1966
1967	Claude R. Kirk, Jr. (R)	28D, 20R[26]							80D, 39R[27]	9D, 3R
1968													Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (R)
1969		Ray C. Osborn (R)[28]							32D, 16R			77D, 42R		Edward J. Gurney (R)
1970
1971	Reubin Askew (D)	Thomas Burton Adams, Jr. (D)	Richard Stone (D)	Robert Shevin (D)		Thomas D. O'Malley (D)			33D, 15R		81D, 38R	Lawton Chiles (D)
1972
1973									25D, 14R, 1I	77D, 43R	11D, 4R
1974			Dorothy Glisson (D)
1975		J. H. Williams (D)	Bruce Smathers (D)[29]		Gerald A. Lewis (D)	Philip F. Ashler (D)	Ralph Turlington (D)		27D, 12R, 1I	86D, 34R	Richard Stone (D)			10D, 5R
1976						Bill Gunter (D)							Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale (D)
1977									30D, 9R, 1I	92D, 28R
1978			Jesse J. McCrary, Jr. (D)[25]
1979	Bob Graham (D)[30]	Wayne Mixson (D)	George Firestone (D)	James C. Smith (D)					29D, 11R	89D, 31R				12D, 3R
1980													Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush (R)
1981									27D, 13R	81D, 39R	Paula Hawkins (R)			11D, 4R
1982
1983									32D, 8R	84D, 36R				13D, 6R
1984
1985									31D, 9R	77D, 43R				12D, 7R
1986									30D, 10R[31]
1987	Wayne Mixson (D)[14]	vacant	James C. Smith (R)	Bob Butterworth (D)			Betty Castor (D)		25D, 15R	73D, 47R	Bob Graham (D)
	Bob Martinez (R)	Bobby Brantley (R)
1988													George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R)
1989						Tom Gallagher (R)			23D, 17R	70D, 50R		Connie Mack III (R)		11R, 8D
1990
1991	Lawton Chiles (D)[13]	Buddy MacKay (D)						Bob Crawford (D)		74D, 46R				10R, 9D
1992									22D, 18R[32]				George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) N
1993									20D, 20R[33]	71D, 49R				13R, 10D
1994							Douglas L. Jamerson (D)
1995			Sandra Mortham (R)		Bob Milligan (R)	Bill Nelson (D)	Frank Brogan (R)		21R, 19D	63D, 57R				15R, 8D
1996									22R, 18D[34]				Bill Clinton and Al Gore (D)
1997									23R, 17D	61R, 59D
1998									25R, 15D[35]	66R, 54D[36]
1999	Buddy MacKay (D)[14]	vacant	Katherine Harris (R)				Tom Gallagher (R)			73R, 47D
	Jeb Bush (R)	Frank Brogan (R)
2000										75R, 45D[37]			George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (R)
2001						Tom Gallagher (R)	Charlie Crist (R)	Charles H. Bronson (R)		77R, 43D		Bill Nelson (D)
2002				Richard E. Doran (R)
Year	Governor	Lt. Governor	Sec. of State[38]	Attorney General	Comptroller[39]	Treasurer[40]	Comm. of Ed. [41]	Comm. of Ag.	State Senate	State House	U.S. Senator (Class I)	U.S. Senator (Class III)	U.S. House	Electoral College votes
Executive offices								State Legislature		United States Congress

2003–present

Year	Executive offices					State Legislature		United States Congress			Electoral College votes
	Governor	Lt. Governor	Attorney General	CFO	Commissioner of Agriculture	State Senate	State House	U.S. Senator (Class I)	U.S. Senator (Class III)	U.S. House
2003	Jeb Bush (R)	Toni Jennings (R)	Charlie Crist (R)	Tom Gallagher (R)	Charles H. Bronson (R)	26R, 14D	81R, 39D	Bill Nelson (D)	Bob Graham (D)	18R, 7D	George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (R)
2004
2005							84R, 36D		Mel Martinez (R)
2006							85R, 35D[42]
2007	Charlie Crist (R)	Jeff Kottkamp (R)	Bill McCollum (R)	Alex Sink (D)			78R, 42D			16R, 9D
2008							77R, 43D[43]				Barack Obama and Joe Biden (D)
2009							76R, 44D			15R, 10D
2010	Charlie Crist (I)								George LeMieux (R)
2011	Rick Scott (R)	Jennifer Carroll (R)	Pam Bondi (R)	Jeffrey Atwater (R)[44]	Adam Putnam (R)	28R, 12D	81R, 39D		Marco Rubio (R)	19R, 6D
2012
2013		Vacant				26R, 14D	76R, 44D			17R, 10D
2014		Carlos López-Cantera (R)					75R, 45D[45]
2015							81R, 39D
2016											Donald Trump and Mike Pence (R)
2017				Jimmy Patronis (R)[25]		25R, 15D	79R, 41D			16R, 11D
2018						24R, 16D[46]	78R, 42D[47]
2019	Ron DeSantis (R)	Jeanette Núñez (R)	Ashley Moody (R)		Nikki Fried (D)	23R, 17D	73R, 47D	Rick Scott (R)		14R, 13D
2020											Donald Trump and Mike Pence (R) N
2021						24R, 16D	78R, 42D			16R, 11D
Year	Governor	Lt. Governor	Attorney General	CFO	Commissioner of Agriculture	State Senate	State House	U.S. Senator (Class I)	U.S. Senator (Class III)	U.S. House	Electoral College votes
Executive offices					State Legislature		United States Congress

See also

• Elections in Florida
• Government of Florida
• Politics of Florida
• Parties:
  • Republican Party of Florida
  • Florida Democratic Party

Notes

1. The 1845 election was successfully contested in the U.S. House by the Democrat who initially lost.
2. Died in office; committed suicide due to the pending defeat of the Confederate States of America.
3. Served in the Congress of the Confederate States.
4. As president of state Senate, filled unexpired term.
5. Resigned from office to go into hiding from approaching Union troops.
6. Appointed Provisional Governor by President Andrew Johnson following the Civil War.
7. Most sources state Walker was a Democrat; the state archives say he was "Conservative". He was formerly a Whig, Know Nothing, and Constitutional Unionist, and he ran in the 1868 election as an "Independent Republican." "David Shelby Walker". State Library and Archives of Florida. Archived from the original on January 23, 2011. Retrieved April 4, 2017.Dubin, Michael J. (10 January 2014). United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1861-1911. ISBN 9780786456468. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
8. Elected in 1865, but his credentials were not accepted by the Congress.
9. Was popularly elected; assumed office on June 8, 1868. It was not until July 4, 1868, however, that the military commander of Florida, still under Reconstruction, recognized the validity of the state constitution and the election.
10. The Legislature rejected the returns from three Senate districts; had they been admitted, the Senate would have been tied 12-12.
11. The Legislature rejected the returns from nine House districts; had they been admitted, the House would have had a 28-23 Democratic majority with 1 Independent.
12. The 1870 election was successfully contested in the U.S. House by the Democrat who initially lost.
13. Died in office.
14. As lieutenant governor, filled unexpired term.
15. The 1874 election for the 2nd District was successfully contested in the U.S. House by the Democrat who initially lost.
16. The 1876 election for the 2nd District was successfully contested in the U.S. House by the Democrat who initially lost.
17. The 1878 election for the 2nd District was successfully contested in the U.S. House by the Republican who initially lost.
18. The 1880 election for the 2nd District was successfully contested in the U.S. House by the Republican who initially lost.
19. Though not winning enough seats to form an outright majority, the Democrats received enough votes to claim the Speakership and organize the House.
20. Initially appointed to fill vacancy; later elected in his own right.
21. Three counties were added to the state in 1925 after the Legislature started, adding three seats to the House mid-term.
22. Resigned in order to accept appointment to the Florida Supreme Court.
23. Due to the effects of Baker vs. Carr, the 1962 midterms were thrown out by a court, and a redistricting was conducted with new elections thereafter. The original results for the Senate yielded a 37-1 Democrat majority.
24. Due to the effects of Baker vs. Carr, the 1962 midterms were thrown out by a court, and a redistricting was conducted with new elections thereafter. The original results for the House yielded a 90-5 Democrat majority.
25. Appointed by governor to fill vacancy.
26. Due to additional efforts to satisfy "one man, one vote"-style redistricting failing, the 1966 midterms were thrown out by a court, and a redistricting by the judiciary was conducted with new elections thereafter. The original results for the Senate yielded a 37-11 Democrat majority.
27. Due to additional efforts to satisfy "one man, one vote"-style redistricting failing, the 1966 midterms were thrown out by a court, and a redistricting by the judiciary was conducted with new elections thereafter. The original results for the House yielded a 91-26 Democrat majority.
28. First lieutenant governor under the state constitution of 1968 and the state's first lieutenant governor since 1889. Appointed by Governor Claude R. Kirk, Jr.
29. Resigned in order to run for governor.
30. Resigned to take elected seat in the United States Senate.
31. Republican Ander Crenshaw won a special election to a vacant seat, flipping the seat from the Democrats to the Republicans.
32. One senator changed party affiliation from Democrat to Republican in April 1992
33. Due to the split chamber, the Senate worked out a deal where a Republican served as Senate President in 1993, and a Democrat served in 1994.
34. One senator changed party affiliation from Democrat to Republican in February 1995
35. Republicans gained one seat in a March 1998 special election. One senator changed party affiliation from Democrat to Republican in July 1998.
36. Four members changed party affiliation from Democrat to Republican between May 1997 and April 1998. Republicans gained a seat in an October 1997 special election.
37. Democrats gained a seat in a March 1999 special election. Three representatives changed party affiliation from Democrat to Republican between May and December 1999.
38. Beginning in 2003, office was no longer elected.
39. Beginning in 2003, replaced by Chief Financial Officer of Florida.
40. Beginning in 2003, replaced by Chief Financial Officer of Florida.
41. Beginning in 2003, office was no longer elected.
42. One representative changed party affiliation from Democrat to Republican in January 2006.
43. One representative changed party affiliation from Democrat to Republican in November 2006. Democrats gained two seats in special elections in April 2007 and February 2008.
44. Resigned to take a job in the administration at Florida Atlantic University.
45. Democrats gained a seat in an October 2013 special election.
46. Democrats gained a seat in a September 2017 special election.
47. Democrats gained a seat in a February 2018 special election.

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