Florida sees highest percentage voter turnout in over 30 years, nearly 11 million votes
Voter turnout for the 2024 general election is still being tabulated, but so far it seems that Floridians turned out in force with the highest percentage of registered voters casting a ballot in 32 years.
As of Wednesday morning, the state Division of Elections reported that 10,986,175 ballots had been counted out of 13,949,168 registered voters. That's a 78.76% turnout, the highest in any Florida election since 1992, according to state records.
In 2020, 77% of more than 15 million registered Florida voters voted. In 2016, it was 75%.
The numbers are unofficial and will change as provisional ballots are cured, ballots are challenged and ballots from absent military and overseas residents continue to trickle in.
In a surprising change, more U.S. independent voters showed up nationwide than Democrats, accounting for 34% of the total vote, according to Edison Research exit-poll data. Democrats made up 32% of the total, Edison said.
How many Florida voters voted in the 2024 general election?
As of Wednesday morning, according to unofficial results and with 100% of the precincts reporting, 10,986,175 Floridians voted in this election.
Voted by mail: 2,579,590
Republican: 1,044,854
Democrat: 1,255,137
Other: 66,918
No Party Affiliation: 655,607
Voted early: 3,022,516
Republican: 2,552,609
Democrat: 1,514,619
Other: 135,479
No Party Affiliation: 1,160,306
Voted on Election Day: 5,384,069
How many registered voters are there in Florida?
As of the Oct. 9 registration deadline for the election, there were 13,949,168 registered voters in Florida:
Republican: 5,499,717
Democrat: 4,421,790
Minor party: 411,491
No Party Affiliation: 3,616,168
This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: Florida voter turnout highest since 1992, nearly 78% of voters
