- Lead
- 30,912
- Total
- 89,516
- vs nation
- R+33.1
Florida 118th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 13,802
- Total
- 93,052
- vs nation
- R+19.3
- Lead
- 7,528
- Total
- 76,377
- vs nation
- D+7.8
- Lead
- 2,131
- Total
- 69,915
- vs nation
- R+0.8
- Lead
- 3,477
- Total
- 69,947
- vs nation
- R+12.2
- Lead
- 9,476
- Total
- 63,950
- vs nation
- R+12.4
- Lead
- 7,401
- Total
- 51,394
- vs nation
- R+14.9
- Lead
- 2,138
- Total
- 2,138
- vs nation
- R+8.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+34.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 183,6942024 5-year
- Population density
- 5,371 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 34.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $80,3102024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 8.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 84.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+9.9 in 2016MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+34.5 in 2024MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 110, FL · twin score 99.2
presidential history
Party record book
Florida 118th 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
Hillary Clinton2016
54.1%
41,282 votes · D+9.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 51.2%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
67.1%
60,086 votes · R+34.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 57.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Hillary Clinton2016
41,282votes
54.1% of the vote · D+9.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 39,390 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
60,086votes
67.1% of the vote · R+34.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 53,192 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
+7.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+9.9 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · −0.8 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2024
+33.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+34.5 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +19.3 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.
With a 2024 presidential margin of R+34.5, this district ranks among the state's most reliably conservative, leaving general elections largely uncontested and shifting political energy toward primaries.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 9.9 points in 2016 and a Republican high of 34.5 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 19.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 34.5 points.
A population of 183,694, a 9% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $80,310 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 110 and State House District 119.
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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