Florida elections in 2026
30 electoral votes · 28 House seats · South · 2 statewide races on the 2026 ballot
Florida US Senate (special): D 44.0 to R 54.0, likely Republican, well sourced. Moody leads in Florida special election after progressive Nixon's primary upset
Florida Governor: D 45.0 to R 53.0, lean Republican, well sourced. Donalds and Jolly Set for High-Stakes General Election Battle to Succeed DeSantis
House delegation as simulated: 8 D, 18 R, 2 tossups of 28 districts swept.
Model readings of live reporting, not polling. The full Florida board, with sourcing and the county map where one exists, is on the Midterms 2026 tab of the homepage.
How Florida votes
Florida's electorate is enormous and layered: retirees, a diverse Latino population with distinct Cuban and Puerto Rican communities, growth-belt suburbs and a conservative north. Insurance costs, hurricanes and growth management now share the stage with its long-running tax debates.
Its largest population centers include Miami, Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville. Where a state's people live, and what those places do for a living, is the starting point for how Electorate HQ simulations reason about it.
On the ballot in Florida
Election day is November 3, 2026. Florida has 2 statewide races and 28 House seats on the ballot.
Statewide races
House districts
Every House seat is elected every two years. Each district below is listed with the counties inside it, computed from the current Census boundary files, wherever those files give a clean answer. Not sure which district is yours? Use the address lookup below.
- Florida 1st district: Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton Counties
- Florida 2nd district: Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson and 6 more counties (14 in all)
- Florida 3rd district: Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Lafayette and 3 more counties (11 in all)
- Florida 4th district: Clay, Duval, Nassau Counties
- Florida 5th district: St. Johns County
- Florida 6th district: Flagler, Marion, Putnam, Volusia Counties
- Florida 7th district: Seminole County
- Florida 8th district: Brevard, Indian River Counties
- Florida 9th district: Orange, Osceola Counties
- Florida 10th district: entirely within Orange County
- Florida 11th district: Lake, Sumter Counties
- Florida 12th district: Citrus, Hernando, Pasco Counties
- Florida 13th district: Pinellas County
- Florida 14th district: no county list for this district; the district and county boundary files disagree along the coastline, so use the address lookup below
- Florida 15th district: entirely within Hillsborough County
- Florida 16th district: Hillsborough, Manatee Counties
- Florida 17th district: Charlotte, Sarasota Counties
- Florida 18th district: DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Highlands, Okeechobee, Polk Counties
- Florida 19th district: Lee County
- Florida 20th district: Broward, Palm Beach Counties
- Florida 21st district: Martin, St. Lucie Counties
- Florida 22nd district: entirely within Palm Beach County
- Florida 23rd district: entirely within Broward County
- Florida 24th district: entirely within Miami-Dade County
- Florida 25th district: entirely within Broward County
- Florida 26th district: Collier County
- Florida 27th district: no county list for this district; the district and county boundary files disagree along the coastline, so use the address lookup below
- Florida 28th district: Miami-Dade, Monroe Counties
Find your exact districts
Your address goes to the U.S. Census Bureau's public geocoder to find your districts. It is not stored, and no AI sees it.
Which district am I in? Florida districts by county
House districts follow population, not county lines, so a single county can hold several districts and a single district can span many. Each county is listed under the district that holds its center, so if your county appears once above, that district holds most of it and is probably yours. If it appears under several, or if you live near a district line, use the address lookup for the exact answer.
Before you vote in Florida
Registration deadlines, early voting windows, mail ballot rules and identification requirements are all set at the state level and change between cycles, so the authoritative source is your own election office rather than any national site. The federal directory at vote.gov links to every state's registration system, and your county election office publishes the sample ballot that includes local contests.
The ballot section above covers the federal and statewide offices on the Florida ballot for November 3, 2026. Each statewide race links to a page with current coverage and an AI-generated simulation of the contest, always labeled as a simulation rather than a poll.
Local races
Local councils and commissions, school boards, judges, sheriffs and municipal offices are also on many Florida ballots, and they vary block by block. Your county election office publishes the authoritative local sample ballot.
Florida's weight in Washington
Florida carries 30 electoral votes, which ranks it 3 of 51 by that measure, and sends 28 voting members to the House.
That arithmetic is why the same national argument lands differently here than in a state of another size: a candidate courting Florida is competing for a specific share of the map, and the issues below are the ones that share actually turns on.
How Florida is represented
Florida is divided into 28 House districts, each drawn to hold roughly the same number of people, while its two Senate seats represent the state as a whole. A campaign here therefore runs two different arguments at once: a local one shaped by whichever district a voter lives in, and a statewide one that has to hold together across all 28.
Electoral votes follow the same arithmetic, House seats plus two, which is why Florida carries 30 in a presidential year and why small states carry proportionally more weight there than population alone would give them. The district list above shows every district on the 2026 ballot and the counties the boundary files place inside each one.
Issues that weigh heavily in Florida
Based on the state's industry mix, geography and cost of living, these issues tend to carry structural weight in Florida elections:
Latest Florida political headlines
Poll: Byron Donalds 44%, David Jolly 43% in dead-heat race for Florida GovernorPoll: Republicans Hold Double-Digit Leads in Florida Governor, U.S. Senate RacesFlorida Governor's race enters final stretchFlorida governor’s race: Fact-checking Byron Donalds, David Jolly at WLRN’s Sunshine Economy SummitDecision Desk calls the Governor's race a toss-up. Kalshi traders have Byron Donalds at 77%Byron Donalds scrubs most Trump references from new campaign site for Florida governor’s racePoll: Ashley Moody 45%, Angie Nixon 45%, and Florida now has two toss-ups at the top of the ticketFlorida housing market levels off in AugustSimulate Florida
In the Electorate HQ simulator, Florida is one of 51 delegations that reads current reporting and decides a presidential race issue by issue. Results are AI simulations, clearly labeled, with the reasoning shown for every call. See the methodology for what that does and does not mean.
Analysis covering Florida
How the county lists on this site are computed, and where the method breaks
A methods note. Two public boundary files, one point-in-polygon test, 436 districts, and five cases where it returns nothing.
Twenty-six states elect a senator and a governor on the same day in 2026
The overlap between the Senate class and the gubernatorial cohort is a coincidence of two unrelated calendars, and it decides where money goes.
The 2026 Senate map covers 62% of the country and 70% of the states
Thirty-five of fifty states vote for Senate this year. Weighted by people rather than states the share drops, and that gap is the design of the chamber.