Florida Governor 2026
Election day is November 3, 2026. A statewide contest in Florida.
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What the Florida Governor election decides
State government decides most of what touches daily life directly: schools, roads, policing, public health, utilities regulation, and the state's share of healthcare programs. A governor's veto and budget proposal set the boundaries of what a legislature can do.
A governor signs or vetoes state law, proposes the state budget, commands the state's emergency response, and in most states shapes how elections themselves are administered. Florida decides this alongside its 28 House seats and a U.S. Senate seat. Governors are judged on results inside the state rather than on national mood alone, which is why governor's races often break differently from federal contests held the same day.
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. That backdrop is the ground any Florida campaign fights on, and it is what the Electorate HQ simulation reads first when it weighs a ticket's platform against this contest.
About this race
The 2026 Florida gubernatorial election took place in the US state on November 3, 2026, to elect the governor of Florida.
Republican Representative Byron Donalds narrowly defeated former Representative David Jolly. Incumbent two-term Republican governor Ron DeSantis was term-limited and ineligible for a third term.
Primary elections were held on August 18, 2026. In the Republican primary, Representative Byron Donalds won with 47.8% of the vote. In the Democratic primary, former Representative David Jolly won with 61.0% of the vote.
Latest coverage of the Florida Governor race
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Every Florida House district, the counties inside each one, and an address lookup that resolves your exact districts are on the Florida state page.
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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.