Santa Rosa County, Florida

2024 results by precinct

41 precincts · 112,365 votes cast

Trump · R+51

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−51.0%	27,004	84,286	112,365
2020	R	−46.5%	27,612	77,385	106,928
2016	R	−53.4%	18,464	65,339	87,745
2012	R	−52.6%	17,768	58,186	76,846
2008	R	−47.9%	19,470	55,972	76,185
2004	R	−55.6%	14,659	52,059	67,307
2000	R	−46.7%	12,818	36,339	50,402
1996	R	−36.2%	10,936	26,301	42,410
1992	R	−32.9%	6,556	17,339	32,777
1988	R	−56.3%	5,254	18,973	24,370
1984	R	−64.1%	4,649	21,265	25,920
1980	R	−31.7%	6,964	13,802	21,590
1976	R	−6.3%	8,020	9,122	17,412
1972	R	−78.5%	1,491	12,669	14,245
1968	R	−7.6%	1,600	2,567	12,716
1964	R	−25.3%	3,570	5,983	9,553
1960	D	+28.2%	4,960	2,777	7,737
1956	D	+36.9%	4,144	1,909	6,053
1952	D	+43.0%	4,375	1,744	6,119
1948	D	+50.1%	2,316	549	3,524
1944	D	+50.3%	2,607	862	3,469
1940	D	+63.2%	2,910	656	3,566
1936	D	+59.5%	2,934	744	3,678
1932	D	+79.8%	2,806	315	3,121
1928	R	−49.4%	541	1,628	2,201
1924	D	+47.3%	693	229	981
1920	D	+41.6%	813	333	1,153
1916	D	+72.4%	896	111	1,085
1912	D	+58.5%	592	70	893
1908	D	+40.2%	535	212	803
1904	D	+60.1%	403	73	549
1900	D	+81.9%	519	38	587
1896	D	+22.4%	694	431	1,175
1892	D	+83.9%	452	0	539
1888	—	No data	—	—	—
1884	D	+26.1%	804	471	1,275
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%

African American

4.5%

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.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 40.1 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.7%

85+

0.8%

2.0%

75–84

2.7%

5.1%

65–74

5.4%

6.9%

55–64

7.0%

6.5%

45–54

6.2%

7.3%

35–44

6.9%

7.3%

25–34

6.0%

4.1%

18–24

3.3%

8.6%

5–17

8.0%

2.6%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$91,922

Santa Rosa County ranks in the top 10% of US counties.

Santa Rosa County$91,922

Florida$74,568

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

8.8%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1818.0%

Working age (18–64)100.0%

Seniors (65+)18.0%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

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

Baptist

20.3%

Other Christian

9.5%

Catholic & Orthodox

8.3%

Methodist

5.5%

Pentecostal & Holiness

1.6%

Mainline Protestant

0.8%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 54.0% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Santa Rosa, anchored by the Pensacola suburbs and a large military-connected population near Eglin Air Force Base, recorded an R+51 presidential margin in 2024, placing it among the most consistently one-sided counties in the state.

The unraveling was not abrupt. The Democratic margin in Santa Rosa County peaked at eighty-four points in 1892; it narrowed steadily over the late twentieth century. The 1964 election delivered the county to the Republican party for the first time in many years, by a margin of twenty-five points. By 2024, the margin had widened further.

The economic and demographic context is severe. Santa Rosa County's median household income of $91,922 is among the lowest of any county in the United States; 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Powhatan County and Houston County.

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For seventy-six years, Santa Rosa County voted Democratic. Then it stopped.