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1876–2024
Escambia County, Florida
Escambia County·Florida

Escambia County voted Democratic for a century. The shift began with civil rights.

Pensacola's home county anchors Florida's Panhandle with a deep-red lean

18762024·38 elections
Escambia County, Florida · Georgia Guercio · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+20
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
325,923
2024 ACS
Most similar
Greenville County
SC · similarity 1.00
80 precincts · 162,689 votes cast
Trump · R+20
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−19.5%
64,57296,371162,689
2020R
−15.1%
70,92996,674170,372
2016R
−20.6%
57,46188,808152,469
2012R
−20.6%
58,18588,711148,502
2008R
−19.3%
61,57291,411154,447
2004R
−31.6%
48,32993,566143,278
2000R
−27.5%
40,99073,171116,856
1996R
−21.5%
37,83860,997107,925
1992R
−19.8%
32,04552,868105,221
1988R
−36.6%
29,97764,95995,460
1984R
−42.7%
26,81266,71593,549
1980R
−20.6%
33,51351,79488,559
1976R
−4.0%
38,27941,47180,715
1972R
−59.6%
14,07856,07170,464
1968D
+1.7%
16,28115,08968,370
1964R
−12.2%
25,37132,41457,785
1960D
+22.4%
28,28817,92546,213
1956D
+25.6%
22,32013,22735,547
1952D
+25.5%
20,49512,17632,671
1948D
+48.4%
13,9823,26722,156
1944D
+67.2%
16,2403,19119,431
1940D
+75.6%
16,2012,24918,450
1936D
+70.7%
9,1381,56710,705
1932D
+57.7%
6,1821,6587,840
1928R
−8.1%
3,7724,4438,333
1924D
+23.4%
2,2901,2744,342
1920D
+42.2%
3,4851,2275,345
1916D
+63.9%
2,1834162,765
1912D
+73.6%
1,593722,066
1908D
+34.8%
1,8877183,356
1904D
+49.8%
1,5734972,159
1900D
+44.4%
1,4354322,261
1896D
+63.1%
1,2852331,668
1892D
+95.4%
2,61602,743
1888
No data
1884D
+0.9%
1,8961,8613,757
1880
No data
1876
No data
Demographics
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
American
100.0%
Polish
0.7%
African American
16.7%
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
0.0%
speak English only
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Other Christian
22.2%
Baptist
12.0%
Catholic & Orthodox
8.5%
Methodist
5.0%
Mainline Protestant
2.7%
Pentecostal & Holiness
2.6%
Non-Christian
0.4%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 46.6% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Escambia County, anchored by Pensacola and shaped by a large military presence at NAS Pensacola, has voted Republican by double-digit margins in every presidential cycle this century, with the 2024 gap reaching nearly 20 points.

The shift began with civil rights. 1972 marked the realignment in Escambia County, by a sixty points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at sixty points in 1972. The 2024 margin was twenty points.

The political shift has tracked, in Escambia County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 64% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $67,500, and a 15% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Greenville County and Dorchester County.