More than 6 million Floridians have voted. GOP now up by more than 725,000 early votes over Dems
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Democrats will need to dominate Election Day to make the presidential and Senate races close.

Republicans continue to win the ballot chase as the early voting period nears a close, and now hold their biggest lead of the 2024 cycle over Democrats

With 2,787,359 ballots cast between vote-by-mail and early voting, the Republican Party of Florida holds a 727,271-vote advantage over Democrats, who have cast 2,060,088 votes up until now.

If this trend continues, Democrats will have to do what they never do and dominate Election Day to have a chance to deliver the state for Kamala Harris and Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, and hope that no-party voters resoundingly prefer their candidates to Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. Rick Scott.

Of 3,743,643 total early votes in person, more than half (1,904,974) have been cast by Republicans. Democrats have cast 1,018,259 of their own, slightly outpacing no-party voters (732,461) and minor party members (87,949).

Democrats make up some ground in mail voting.

Of the 2,482,331 absentee ballots cast, Democrats are in the lead, with 1,041,829, ahead of Republicans (882,385), no-party voters (505,969), and other party members (52,148).

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. He writes for the New York Post and National Review also, with previous work in the American Conservative and Washington Times and a 15+ year run as a columnist in Folio Weekly. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


5 comments

  • I Am Garbage

    October 31, 2024 at 9:19 am

    Garbage people out doing work.

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  • Cheesy Floridian

    October 31, 2024 at 9:48 am

    Hopefully people pay attention to the person and not the party.

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    • I Am Garbage

      October 31, 2024 at 10:10 am

      Back at you Demo. You really gonna vote for a person in charge of the southern border that never ever called the Border Patrol and ICE to ask them what they needed? The same border czar that compared these people to the KKK? Not no but helllllllllllll no.

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  • Billy Nash

    October 31, 2024 at 9:52 am

    Please vote country over party. This is no longer the Republican Party that long ago had some values that served democracy and would work with Democrats to make our nation great. Even if you don’t like the Harris/Walz team you can vote them out in 4 years but if Trump wins we may never get the chance to vote again. He told us that as we should believe him.

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  • I Am Garbage

    October 31, 2024 at 10:02 am

    Funny the amnesia Demos have concerning Kammy. You simply hat Trump and look the other way in regards to immigration, crime, the economy, and foreign affairs. Remember Kammy ran for a year for President in 2020. The Demos did not like her back then and it’s easy to see why. She can’t run on the last four years of the most incompetent administration in a lifetime. Quite frankly she just isn’t very smart. So do you really think Repubs are gonna cast a ballot for Word Salad herself? Not me and you would never vote for a Repub.

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