- Lead
- 60,192
- Total
- 323,612
- vs nation
- R+17.1
Florida 26th Congressional District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,532
- Total
- 343,511
- vs nation
- R+4.0
- Lead
- 56,850
- Total
- 286,693
- vs nation
- D+17.7
- Lead
- 42,238
- Total
- 260,986
- vs nation
- D+12.3
- Lead
- 29,718
- Total
- 257,576
- vs nation
- D+4.3
- Lead
- 10,640
- Total
- 241,168
- vs nation
- D+6.9
- Lead
- 15,474
- Total
- 195,106
- vs nation
- D+7.4
- Lead
- 25,676
- Total
- 85,527
- vs nation
- D+21.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+18.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 769,2212024 5-year
- Population density
- 334 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2,301 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $71,9862024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 13.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 8.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 72.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+46.2 in 1916MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+48.9 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Congressional District 28, FL · twin score 94.7
presidential history
Party record book
Florida 26th Congressional District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
2000–2024 · 7 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Hillary Clinton2016
58.9%
168,722 votes · D+19.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 57.8%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
59.0%
190,954 votes · R+18.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 49.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
171,704votes
50.0% of the vote · D+0.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 168,722 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
190,954votes
59.0% of the vote · R+18.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 170,172 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Hillary Clinton2016
+17.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+19.8 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +12.3 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2024
+17.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+18.6 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +4.0 pts
Current officeholders
Federal officeholders only. State and local officeholders are planned for the next data pass.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each result reflects the U.S. House district as it was drawn for that election; redistricting has redrawn these lines over time, so they can differ from the current 120th-Congress district shown on the map above.
Florida 26th Congressional District sits in the Gulf South and peninsula. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 46.2 points in 1916 and a Republican high of 48.9 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 19.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 18.6 points.
A population of 769,221, a 13% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $71,986 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Congressional District 28 and Congressional District 27.
The congressional districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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Florida 26th Congressional District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/cd/1226/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.