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By The Numbers: Voter Registration Stats For Escambia County And Statewide
August 14, 2018
The voter registration books are closed for the 2018 primary election. The official registered voter count in Escambia County is:
- Republican – 93,889 – 45%
- Democratic – 70,930 – 34%
- No Party Affiliation – 42,830 – 20%
- Minor Parties – 1,568 – 0.75%
THE BIG PICTURE: As Florida’s population has continued to grow, so has the number of voters, with 13,013,657 registered to cast ballots in the primaries. By comparison, 12.37 million were registered to vote in the 2016 primaries, and 11.8 million were registered to vote in the 2014 primaries.
Registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans, but not by a lot — 4,839,434 to 4,594,133. While both parties have seen registration increases since the 2016 primaries, the Democratic margin is about the same as it was two years ago.
NO LABELS, PLEASE: Voters who aren’t registered with the Democratic or Republican parties won’t be able to cast ballots in many primary races, including the marquee race for governor. But that hasn’t stopped the trend of Floridians ditching the donkeys and the elephants and registering “no party affiliation.”
The total of so-called NPA voters has climbed to 3,493,494 — or about 27 percent of the electorate. That is up from slightly more than 2.91 million voters, or about 23.6 percent, during the 2016 primaries.
DEMOCRATIC DOMINANCE: Conventional wisdom has long held that Democrats look to South Florida when they need votes. And there’s good reason for that: Miami-Dade County has 586,648 registered Democrats, Broward County has 577,248, and Palm Beach County has 387,445 — nearly a third of all of the registered Democrats in the state.
It’s also no wonder that Democrats focus on the Orlando area. In Orange and Osceola counties, registered Democrats now outnumber Republicans by 161,000 voters. With both parties focusing heavily this year on attracting Hispanic voters, Democrats also hold about a 100,000-voter edge in Orange and Osceola among Latinos.
GOP HEAVEN: Registered Republicans are outnumbered by Democrats in each of the seven most-populated counties — Broward, Duval, Hillsborough, Miami-Dade, Orange, Palm Beach and Pinellas (though the GOP trails by fewer than, 1,000 voters in Pinellas.) But the GOP has been successful for the past two decades, at least in part, because it has dominated regions such as North Florida, Southwest Florida and many suburban areas.
The new numbers bear that out. For example, in Northwest Florida, registered Republicans make up more than half of the voters in Bay, Holmes, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton and Washington counties. The same holds true in Northeast Florida in Baker, Clay, Nassau and St. Johns counties. It also goes for Sumter County, which is home to much of the massive Villages retirement community, and Collier County in Southwest Florida.
DON’T FORGET THE LITTLE GUYS: Much of the attention during this year’s campaign focuses on candidates going to large media markets and party strongholds as they try to amass votes. But the new registration numbers also give a glimpse of smaller, rural counties that can get lost in the debate.
Nine counties — Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Glades, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lafayette, Liberty and Union counties — each have fewer than 10,000 registered voters. The smallest are Lafayette, with 4,312 voters, and Liberty, with 4,365, followed by Glades, with 6,751. Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans in each of the nine counties, though GOP President Donald Trump carried all of the counties in 2016.
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8 Responses to “By The Numbers: Voter Registration Stats For Escambia County And Statewide”
Vote November 6 like your lives depend on it!!!☺
Im not for political parties , I am for candidates and public representatives with Morals and integrity and character. and that are not criminals .Look at the candidates endorsed by Florida Law Enforcement.
Rick Scott please just go away. He Took the fifth amendment 75 times in a deposition in the largest Medicare Fraud case in history.
settled several million dollar law suits with our tax dollars for violating Florida Sunshine laws for open government, Google the firing of Gerald Bailey, former FDLE director
Total disgrace what he did to a man with a impeccable law enforcement career..Keeps all his assets hidden in a blind trust in his wife’s name.
Changed your automobile insurance, benefiting insurance companies so you only have 14 days after you have a accident. to file a medical claim, who does that benefit. Scott has already spent sixteen million on TV ads. Spent millions of our tax dollars building a sea wall around a golf course in south Florida.. Yet he vetoed most projects in our area. Scott has destroyed the department of health , department of corrections, remember when the tornadoes hit century , Scott was in Pensacola and would not even go to century to check on those folks. He privatized Silver Springs in Ocala Now looks like a dilapidated ghost
town. I was there. Tried to cut funding for in home care for disabled children and put them in senior nursing homes , thankfully a judge stepped in and stopped it. need I say more. Please Vote.
@Nick your joking right, I can sum it up in one word, Obama. You don’t see republicans out in the streets wearing helmets and mask causing injury and property damage. Now a person may say that’s not democrats, well not one democratic leader has denounced their behavior. Free college tuition, free health, abolishing ICE, safe zones, coloring books, soft stuff animals, hit chocolate, one democratic leader wanted to take guns away from law enforcement. Open boarders, genarate more financial strain all the way around, but it dose produce more Democrate voters, and the list goes on.
Nick,
How will we ever know? Look at past history. I really didn’t vote for the Donald per se. I voted for the Supreme Court Justices. Our country is out of control. If we don’t stop so much crap that is going on, we will become another third-world country. When you have too many people taking out of the pot, instead of putting something into it, things HAVE to change. President Trump is doing EXACTLY as he promised he would do. He is not polished, and he definitely cannot be bought by the media or wealthy donors as so many presidents in the past have been. That is indeed refreshing! We must limit what types of people are allowed into this country, unless they are willing to assimilate. We must force people who receive government assistance to contribute back somehow. All of my friends have left the Democratic party simply because of what they are now standing for — the party of anti-everything.
I wish people would really look at what the people running for office really stand for and not just vote for a particular party. Get your ballot in the mail and really look up each individual instead of who has the best commercial. I wish we could just do away with parties and vote for the person best suited for the people. I think a lot of people would change the way they vote.
Nick…..check out some Democrat strongholds….Chicago,Baltimore,
San Fran, Noo Yawk.Detroit.Portland etc. there’s millions of forward
thinkers for ya there. Montana,Idaho,Wyoming not-so-much and right
here in the Panhandle is pretty good too. And mental deficiencies ain’t
limited to just Republicans ……the Democrats seem lost and always mad !
I have been a registered Republican for my entire life as my mother was very active in the Party. However, I completely understand folks going the independent route. Both traditional parties have become too strident and radical. I used to watch MSNBC and Fox, but I cancelled them after the November election. I just do not think that our elected politicians are working for citizens. I think they are working to get reelected, move up to higher office, and get as much money as possible that they have no time working for us. Congress is working 1/2 the time they did in 1960, but our problems were not cut in half. People are tired of politics.
These numbers do look like a positive chance for another party to very well have a spot. I personally mix NorthEscamia.com with international news sources I like just for the outside opinion and a more realistic look at the true state of politics from an outside perspective. Ive read Democrat news sources and lots of Republican news sources and Ive come to a pretty realistic conclusion, I am fairly confident most modern western nations feel our continued survival as a modern country rest on progress and foreword thinking individuals like all other productive countries. I challenge a person to do heavy heavy research and truly look at what YOUR politicians are really pushing for us average Americans to help in all 3 branches of government. Here me out I know some people may not agree with the Democratic party and the same with agreeing on the Republican party. But with Our president always on tweeter rants at 2:30 am and a oblivious lack of government function, such as calling the French and Japanese Presidents unaware there on the other side of the world and he ignorant of time zones at crazy hours and whats is expected of him, its quite possible he may have a beginning mental disease like President Regan and a few other public figures suffered from. Democrats may surprise you for the better. How will you ever know if things could improve under at least one branch of the government with Democrats willing and ready to work with Republicans in a lot of states to improve our country.