FLORIDA | 29
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Population
(Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Florida Secretary of State)
Florida has 67 counties. Five counties over 1 million: Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Hillsborough, Orange. > Six cities over 200,000: Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hileah. (Miami-Ft. Lauderdale is the largest metropolitan area). > Government
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State
of Florida Secretary of State Constitution
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Voter Registration
Deadline:
October
9, 2012. Early Voting: October 27-November 3, 2012 (tenth day before Election Day to the Saturday before Election Day). Total registration: 11,934,446. -More than 2.4 million early votes were cast. -Nearly 2.4 million absentee votes were cast. |
Turnout: 8,538,264. |
Overview:
Florida was again a hotly
contested battleground state, and
indeed was the last state to be called by news organizations. Out
of 8.47 million votes tallied in the presidential race, the Obama-Biden
ticket won by a
plurality of just 74,309
votes (0.88 percentage points). Obama-Biden carried 13 counties
to 54 for McCain-Palin. General Election Details Obama | Romney BALLOT [PDF] |
[State Primary: August 14, 2012] |
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Voting
Eligible Population*:
12,426,633. VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 67.5%. According to county early voting reports compiled by the Secretary of State, 2,610,308 Floridians voted early (30.88% of turnout). Total Registration: 11,247,634. Dem. 4,722,076 (41.98%) Rep. 4,064,301 (36.13%) No Pty Aff. 2,103,119 (18.70%) Other Parties 358,138 (3.18%). |
Total ballots: 8,453,743. |
2008
Overview From a plurality of 380,978 votes (5.01 percentage points) for Bush-Cheney in 2004, Florida switched to the Democrats, giving the Obama-Biden ticket a plurality of 236,450 votes (3.19 percentage points). Obama-Biden carried 15 counties to 52 for McCain-Palin. General Election Details Obama/Allies | McCain/Allies | Nader |
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Voting Eligible Population:
11,811,921. VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 64.4%. Of 7,646,092 total votes cast:
In addition: 27,742 people cast provisional ballots 10,007 provisional ballots were counted Total Registration: 10,301,290. Registration Deadline: Oct. 4, 2004. Early voting: Started Oct. 18, 2004. (SoS: "The 2004 Legislature passed legislation which standardizes early voting throughout the state...all supervisors will begin conducting early voting in their main and branch offices 15 days before the election.") |
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2004
Overview There were no post-election dramatics this time, as Bush-Cheney won the Sunshine State with a plurality of 380,978 votes (5.01 percentage points), carrying 56 counties to 11 for Kerry. About 1.5 million more votes were cast than in 2000. General Election Details | Photos Kerry/Allies | Bush/Cheney '04 |
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Voting Eligible Population: 10,667,193. VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 55.9%. Total Registration: 8,752,717. All told about 6.1 million people cast ballots in Florida. According to the Florida Task Force report there were 179,855 blank or spoiled ballots; this includes uncertified results from 3 counties. The Miami Herald, in its post-election analysis, examined 176,087 uncounted ballots: 111,261 overvotes and 64,826 undervotes, while. USA Today examined 171,908 untabulated ballots: 111,261 overvotes and 60,647 undervotes. The Florida Ballots Project suggests a total of around 172,000. However, all these numbers depend on what is counted. For example in some of the larger counties there were "trays and trays" of absentee ballots where, for example, the signatures didn't match, that didn't get counted. |
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Overview It took a 36-day post-election odyssey to finalize the outcome, but Gov. Bush officially won Florida by 537 votes. The election was decided as much in the courts as at the polls (Battle for Florida), and there will always be doubts in some people's minds about who won. Bush carried 51 counties and the federal absentee ballots, while Vice President Gore won in 16 counties. The Democrats' base in Florida is in the southeast (Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade), while Republicans fared well in rural counties. Thus in many ways the race came down to the I-4 corridor, which runs across central Florida from Tampa Bay through Orlando to Daytona Beach. General Election Activity |
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