Florida 2024 Election Results

Florida held its general election on November 5, 2024, deciding 140 legislative seats. No chamber changed party control.

Highlights

• Two ballot amendments that won clear majorities still failed: Amendment 3 (recreational marijuana, backed by more than $140 million from the cannabis company Trulieve) drew about 56 percent and Amendment 4 (a right to abortion until viability) about 57, each short of the 60 percent Florida requires, after Gov. Ron DeSantis threw state agencies and his political operation against both, with committees chaired by his chief of staff raising more than $30 million.
• Republicans grew their House supermajority from 84-36 to 85-35, what incoming Speaker Daniel Perez called "a historic Republican supermajority", and the Senate stayed 28-12. Three House incumbents lost:
  • Erika Booth (R) comfortably beat Rep. Tom Keen (D) in HD-35 (Osceola), undoing the result of the special election Keen had won just 10 months earlier.
  • Anne Gerwig (R) unseated Rep. Katherine Waldron (D) in Palm Beach County's HD-93 by less than half a point, a margin that held through a machine recount.
  • Democrats' one pickup: Leonard Spencer (D) beat Rep. Carolina Amesty (R), under indictment on forgery charges since April, in HD-45 by about two points.
• Democrats came within a point of two more Central Florida seats, HD-37 and HD-38, and within two of HD-47, but Republicans held all three, and Rep. Fabián Basabe (R) held Miami Beach's HD-106 by about four points; Rep. Lindsay Cross (D) kept St. Petersburg's HD-60 despite more than $1 million in Republican ads. In the Senate, Democrats' lone target, Sen. Corey Simon (R) in SD-3, won by 11. Across the 140 legislative races, 3 seats changed parties, 3 incumbents were defeated, 3 races finished inside two points without changing hands, and 19 seats drew a single candidate. After the election, Reps. Susan Valdés (December 9) and Hillary Cassel (December 27) switched from Democrat to Republican, making the chamber 87-33 when it convened; the totals here count both as Democrats, the label under which voters elected them.
• Of the four amendments the Legislature placed on the ballot, Amendment 2 (a right to hunt and fish, 67 percent) and Amendment 5 (an inflation adjustment to the homestead exemption, 66 percent) passed; Amendment 1 (partisan school board elections, 55 percent) and Amendment 6 (repealing public campaign financing) fell short of the 60 percent threshold.

Legislature

• House (120 seats): 35 D, 85 R before the election, 34 D, 85 R, 1 other or vacant after; control stayed with Republicans.
• Senate (40 seats): 12 D, 28 R before the election, 12 D, 27 R, 1 other or vacant after; control stayed with Republicans.

Legislative races

Ballot measures