- Lead
- 7,367
- Total
- 60,303
- vs nation
- D+13.7
Florida 46th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 20,786
- Total
- 67,986
- vs nation
- D+26.1
- Lead
- 26,516
- Total
- 57,763
- vs nation
- D+43.8
- Lead
- 20,560
- Total
- 44,812
- vs nation
- D+42.0
- Lead
- 17,191
- Total
- 41,168
- vs nation
- D+34.5
- Lead
- 5,942
- Total
- 31,635
- vs nation
- D+21.2
- Lead
- 5,915
- Total
- 21,755
- vs nation
- D+26.7
- Lead
- 5,244
- Total
- 18,285
- vs nation
- D+20.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+12.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 176,2002024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,311 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 134 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $62,2042024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 19.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 12.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 60.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+97.7 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+48.6 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 47, FL · twin score 96.2
presidential history
Party record book
Florida 46th State House 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
Barack Obama2012
72.5%
32,504 votes · D+45.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 71.5%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
43.2%
26,065 votes · D+12.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 40.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
44,035votes
64.8% of the vote · D+30.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 41,296 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
26,065votes
43.2% of the vote · D+12.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 23,249 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
+43.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+45.9 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +42.0 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2024
−13.7pts R vs U.S.
Place D+12.2 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · −21.2 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
Florida House District 46 sits within Miami-Dade County, where a dense, majority-Hispanic electorate has consistently produced Democratic presidential margins above ten points, making it one of the more reliably blue seats in the state's legislative map.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 97.7 points in 1892 and a Republican high of 48.6 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 18.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 12.2 points.
A population of 176,200, a 19% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $62,204 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 47 and State House District 127.
The state-house 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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