Florida’s voter registration is at near parity for the first time in our state’s history. The state’s most recent voter registration update is in and it shows Democrats once again hold their smallest voter registration lead on record.
In 1978, there were 1.63 million more registered Democrats than Republicans in our state. Today, that lead is down to 12,699 voters. It’s a remarkable change just over four decades in the making which has almost come full circle. The most likely outcome is that by year-end, and possibly sooner, registered Republicans will outnumber registered Democrats in Florida for the first time ever.
Florida’s NPA’s have most commonly broken in favor of Republicans in recent years, meaning that Florida’s conversion from a blue state to a purple state to a red state is nearly complete. All of this continues to support the notion that those fleeing blue states for Florida are bringing their politics with them, but that those politics generally reflect a desire for the current leadership our state offers as opposed to the states they’ve left.