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1876–2024
State House District 32·Florida

Florida 32nd State House District voted Democratic for a century; it now votes Republican by 21 points.

18762024·38 elections
FL
Latest
R+21
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
116,690
2024 ACS

Florida 32nd State House District, Florida: Old Confederacy district. In 2024, voted R+21%. Democratic peak: D+89 in 1892.

Key facts

2024 presidential margin
R+21MIT Election Lab
Political archetype
Old ConfederacyAkashic typology
Population
116,6902024 5-year
Median household income
$78,4762024 5-year
White (non-Hispanic)
73.4%2024 5-year
Black
10.0%2024 5-year
Hispanic / Latino
12.2%2024 5-year
Peak Democratic margin
D+89 in 1892MIT Election Lab
Peak Republican margin
R+58 in 1972MIT Election Lab
1 counties · 0 D · 1 R
R+60
D+60
One cell per constituent county. Ordered by 2024 D-vs-R margin (bluest first). Hover for county-level numbers.
Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024).
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
R
−20.8%
26,03239,92566,636
R
−16.4%
27,39438,33566,528
R
−19.8%
22,07033,53458,043
R
−12.7%
22,68129,37652,659
R
−10.4%
23,53429,06153,084
R
−16.1%
20,34228,22748,953
R
−8.2%
17,95021,25440,291
R
−3.9%
14,83516,23235,984
R
−12.0%
11,26615,59836,118
R
−41.5%
7,93019,33627,506
R
−46.9%
6,82018,89825,727
R
−26.3%
7,19312,80921,324
D
+2.1%
8,5608,20117,033
R
−57.6%
3,10811,57614,703
R
−24.4%
3,3716,84614,257
D
+0.6%
4,5794,5279,107
R
−22.7%
2,0413,2435,284
R
−43.6%
7241,8452,569
R
−23.8%
7671,2462,012
D
+0.6%
4334271,026
D
+20.0%
489326815
D
+20.3%
552366918
D
+33.3%
424212636
D
+32.0%
342176518
R
−26.0%
196337543
D
+23.7%
16195278
D
+13.9%
165122309
D
+46.2%
11032169
D
+50.5%
6611109
D
+12.1%
5441107
D
+60.3%
10223131
D
+56.6%
9522129
D
+18.7%
9362166
D
+89.2%
83093
No data
D
+46.8%
562077
No data
No data

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
Irish
13.1%
German
13.0%
English
12.9%
American
7.0%
Italian
6.8%
Polish
2.6%
French
2.5%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so these shares can total more than 100%. 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
87.8%
speak English only
Spanish7.6%
Other Indo-European2.9%
Asian & Pacific Islander1.4%
Other languages0.4%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Catholic & Orthodox
18.2%
Other Christian
12.4%
Baptist
4.7%
Methodist
2.5%
Mainline Protestant
1.8%
Pentecostal & Holiness
1.3%
Non-Christian
1.2%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 57.9% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Florida 32nd State House District sits in the Gulf South and peninsula. For nearly a century after Reconstruction, the district voted Democratic — not because of New Deal politics, but because of the lingering memory of the Civil War. The Democratic party of the Solid South was the party of segregation, and in Florida 32nd State House District as throughout the former Confederacy, Republican identification was politically untenable until the second half of the twentieth century.

The shift began with civil rights. 1980 marked the realignment in Florida 32nd State House District, by a twenty-six points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at fifty-eight points in 1972. The 2024 margin was twenty-one points.

The political shift has tracked, in Florida 32nd State House District, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 73% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $78,476, and a 10% poverty rate describe the demographic context.

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Frequently asked questions

How did State House District 32, Florida vote in 2024?
In 2024, State House District 32, Florida voted Republican by 20.8 points (R+21), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 66,636 votes cast, 26,032 went Democratic and 39,925 went Republican.
What is State House District 32, Florida's political archetype?
Akashic classifies State House District 32, Florida as a "Old Confederacy" district based on its long-arc presidential voting pattern. Across 38 elections in the dataset, the district has voted Democratic 17 times, Republican 18 times, and other 0 times.
When did State House District 32, Florida last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which State House District 32, Florida voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in State House District 32, Florida?
State House District 32, Florida has a population of 116,690 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in State House District 32, Florida?
Median household income in State House District 32, Florida is $78,476 — below the national median of $80,734. The Florida state median is $74,568.
What is the political history of State House District 32, Florida?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in State House District 32, Florida from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 17 went Democratic and 18 went Republican. The district's archetype — "Old Confederacy" — captures the overall trajectory of that voting record.