{
 "topic": "senate",
 "site": "electiondata.dev",
 "place": {
  "id": "us-fl",
  "name": "Florida",
  "level": "us-state",
  "parent": "usa",
  "path": "us/fl",
  "slug": "fl",
  "state": "fl",
  "state_name": "Florida",
  "state_id": "us-fl"
 },
 "question": "How did Florida vote for the Senate?",
 "answer": {
  "verdict": "Rick Scott (Republican) won by 12.8 points",
  "value": 12.8,
  "unit": " pts",
  "digits": 1,
  "label": "Senate, 2024: winner's margin",
  "lines": [
   "Rick Scott (Republican) 55.6%, Debbie Mucarsel-powell (Democrat) 42.8%, Ben Everidge (Independent) 0.6%",
   "10,757,428 votes for Senate candidates"
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2024",
 "as_of_label": "2024",
 "charts": [
  {
   "id": "senate-margin",
   "title": "Every regular Senate election in Florida since 1976",
   "description": "17 regular elections; Democrats were ahead in 8 and Republicans in 9.",
   "indicator": "Democratic candidate's share of Senate votes minus the Republican's, points (regular elections; special elections are in the table)",
   "subtitle": "Democratic share minus Republican share, in points. Above the line: the Democrat got more votes.",
   "x": {
    "kind": "year"
   },
   "y": {
    "digits": 1,
    "unit": " pts",
    "format": "party-margin"
   },
   "layers": [
    {
     "type": "bars",
     "name": "Margin",
     "base": 0,
     "points": [
      [
       1976,
       25.954,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1980,
       -3.318,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1982,
       23.454,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1986,
       9.48,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1988,
       -0.848,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1992,
       30.814,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1994,
       -41.02,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1998,
       24.938,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2000,
       4.852,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2004,
       -1.113,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2006,
       22.205,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2010,
       -28.697,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2012,
       13.006,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2016,
       -7.666,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2018,
       -0.123,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2022,
       -16.413,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2024,
       -12.778,
       "rep"
      ]
     ],
     "legend": [
      {
       "label": "Democrat ahead",
       "cls": "dem"
      },
      {
       "label": "Republican ahead",
       "cls": "rep"
      }
     ]
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "Statewide totals say nothing about who voted or why.",
  "Candidates with a party's support under another name (Minnesota's DFL, New York's fusion lines) are counted with that party, as the MIT data's simplified party does; independents stay independents."
 ],
 "method": "Each candidate's votes are summed over every ballot line; blank, over- and under-votes are left out. The margin is the winner's share of the votes minus the runner-up's. A runoff, where held, is the result.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "name": "electiondata.dev senate-results, version 2026-10-25.247421eda6",
   "url": "https://electiondata.dev/",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  },
  {
   "name": "MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. Senate statewide 1976-2024",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PEJ5QU",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  }
 ],
 "check": {
  "races": [
   {
    "year": 1976,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2857534,
    "votes": {
     "Lawton Chiles": 1799518,
     "John Grady": 1057886
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1980,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 3528028,
    "votes": {
     "Paula Hawkins": 1822460,
     "Bill Gunter": 1705409
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1982,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2653419,
    "votes": {
     "Lawton Chiles": 1637667,
     "Van B. Poole": 1015330
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1986,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 3429996,
    "votes": {
     "Bob Graham": 1877543,
     "Paula Hawkins": 1552376
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1988,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 4068209,
    "votes": {
     "Connie Mack": 2051071,
     "Buddy Mackay": 2016553
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1992,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 4962290,
    "votes": {
     "Bob Graham": 3245565,
     "Bill Grant": 1716505
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1994,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 4106816,
    "votes": {
     "Connie Mack": 2895200,
     "Hugh E. Rodham": 1210577
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1998,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 3900162,
    "votes": {
     "Bob Graham": 2436407,
     "Charlie Crist": 1463755
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2000,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 5856731,
    "votes": {
     "Bill Nelson": 2989487,
     "Bill Mccollum": 2705348,
     "Willie Logan": 80830,
     "Joe Simonetta": 26087,
     "Darrell L. Mccormick": 21664,
     "Joel Deckard": 17338,
     "Andy Martin": 15889
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2004,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 7429894,
    "votes": {
     "Mel Martinez": 3672864,
     "Betty Castor": 3590201,
     "Dennis F. Bradley": 166642
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2006,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 4793534,
    "votes": {
     "Bill Nelson": 2890548,
     "Katherine Harris": 1826127,
     "Belinda Noah": 24880,
     "Brian Moore": 19695,
     "Floyd Ray Frazier": 16628,
     "Roy Tanner": 15562
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2010,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 5411106,
    "votes": {
     "Marco Rubio": 2645743,
     "Charlie Crist": 1607549,
     "Kendrick B. Meek": 1092936,
     "Alexander Andrew Snitker": 24850,
     "Sue Askeland": 15340,
     "Rick Tyler": 7397,
     "Bernie Decastro": 4792,
     "Lewis Jerome Armstrong": 4443,
     "Bobbie Bean": 4301,
     "Bruce Ray Riggs": 3647
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2012,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 8189946,
    "votes": {
     "Bill Nelson": 4523451,
     "Connie Mack": 3458267,
     "Bill Gaylor": 126079,
     "Chris Borgia": 82089
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2016,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 9301820,
    "votes": {
     "Marco Rubio": 4835191,
     "Patrick Murphy": 4122088,
     "Paul Stanton": 196956,
     "Bruce Nathan": 52451,
     "Tony Khoury": 45820,
     "Steven Machat": 26918,
     "Basil E. Dalack": 22236
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2018,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 8190005,
    "votes": {
     "Rick Scott": 4099505,
     "Bill Nelson": 4089472
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2022,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 7758014,
    "votes": {
     "Marco Rubio": 4474847,
     "Val Demings": 3201522,
     "Dennis Misigoy": 32177,
     "Steven B. Grant": 31816,
     "Tuan Tq Nguyen": 17385,
     "Edward A. Gray": 190,
     "Uloma Uma Ekpete": 42,
     "Moses Quiles": 33,
     "Howard Knepper": 2
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2024,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 10757428,
    "votes": {
     "Rick Scott": 5977706,
     "Debbie Mucarsel-powell": 4603077,
     "Ben Everidge": 62683,
     "Feena Bonoan": 57363,
     "Tuan Nguyen": 56586
    }
   }
  ],
  "dataset": "senate-results",
  "version": "2026-10-25.247421eda6"
 },
 "table": {
  "title": "Every Senate race since 1976",
  "columns": [
   "Race",
   "Winner",
   "Runner-up",
   "Margin",
   "Votes"
  ],
  "num": [
   3,
   4
  ],
  "rows": [
   [
    "2024",
    "Rick Scott (R) 55.6%",
    "Debbie Mucarsel-powell (D) 42.8%",
    "12.8 pts",
    "10,757,428"
   ],
   [
    "2022",
    "Marco Rubio (R) 57.7%",
    "Val Demings (D) 41.3%",
    "16.4 pts",
    "7,758,014"
   ],
   [
    "2018",
    "Rick Scott (R) 50.1%",
    "Bill Nelson (D) 49.9%",
    "0.1 pts",
    "8,190,005"
   ],
   [
    "2016",
    "Marco Rubio (R) 52.0%",
    "Patrick Murphy (D) 44.3%",
    "7.7 pts",
    "9,301,820"
   ],
   [
    "2012",
    "Bill Nelson (D) 55.2%",
    "Connie Mack (R) 42.2%",
    "13.0 pts",
    "8,189,946"
   ],
   [
    "2010",
    "Marco Rubio (R) 48.9%",
    "Charlie Crist (I) 29.7%",
    "19.2 pts",
    "5,411,106"
   ],
   [
    "2006",
    "Bill Nelson (D) 60.3%",
    "Katherine Harris (R) 38.1%",
    "22.2 pts",
    "4,793,534"
   ],
   [
    "2004",
    "Mel Martinez (R) 49.4%",
    "Betty Castor (D) 48.3%",
    "1.1 pts",
    "7,429,894"
   ],
   [
    "2000",
    "Bill Nelson (D) 51.0%",
    "Bill Mccollum (R) 46.2%",
    "4.9 pts",
    "5,856,731"
   ],
   [
    "1998",
    "Bob Graham (D) 62.5%",
    "Charlie Crist (R) 37.5%",
    "24.9 pts",
    "3,900,162"
   ],
   [
    "1994",
    "Connie Mack (R) 70.5%",
    "Hugh E. Rodham (D) 29.5%",
    "41.0 pts",
    "4,106,816"
   ],
   [
    "1992",
    "Bob Graham (D) 65.4%",
    "Bill Grant (R) 34.6%",
    "30.8 pts",
    "4,962,290"
   ],
   [
    "1988",
    "Connie Mack (R) 50.4%",
    "Buddy Mackay (D) 49.6%",
    "0.8 pts",
    "4,068,209"
   ],
   [
    "1986",
    "Bob Graham (D) 54.7%",
    "Paula Hawkins (R) 45.3%",
    "9.5 pts",
    "3,429,996"
   ],
   [
    "1982",
    "Lawton Chiles (D) 61.7%",
    "Van B. Poole (R) 38.3%",
    "23.5 pts",
    "2,653,419"
   ],
   [
    "1980",
    "Paula Hawkins (R) 51.7%",
    "Bill Gunter (D) 48.3%",
    "3.3 pts",
    "3,528,028"
   ],
   [
    "1976",
    "Lawton Chiles (D) 63.0%",
    "John Grady (R) 37.0%",
    "26.0 pts",
    "2,857,534"
   ]
  ]
 },
 "api": {
  "now": "/data/places/us-fl/senate.json",
  "source": "https://api.electiondata.dev/v1/senate-results/download/senate-results.csv",
  "source_label": "Every Senate race, every state, from electiondata.dev (live, no key)"
 },
 "generated_at": "2026-10-26T20:05:12+00:00"
}