- Lead
- 12,342
- Total
- 284,654
- vs nation
- R+2.9
Florida 3rd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,742
- Total
- 290,338
- vs nation
- R+1.4
- Lead
- 7,296
- Total
- 266,388
- vs nation
- D+0.6
- Lead
- 16,324
- Total
- 260,966
- vs nation
- D+2.4
- Lead
- 17,912
- Total
- 262,651
- vs nation
- R+0.5
- Lead
- 21,453
- Total
- 240,366
- vs nation
- D+11.4
- Lead
- 17,824
- Total
- 181,890
- vs nation
- D+9.3
- Lead
- 23,030
- Total
- 166,143
- vs nation
- D+5.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+4.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 541,1422024 5-year
- Population density
- 64 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 8,515 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $61,1432024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 58.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 27.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+88.8 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+38.8 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 5, FL · twin score 74.0
presidential history
Party record book
Florida 3rd State Senate 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
John Kerry2004
54.1%
130,097 votes · D+8.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · 53.7%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
51.7%
147,131 votes · R+4.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 48.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
148,086votes
51.0% of the vote · D+3.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 138,826 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
147,131votes
51.7% of the vote · R+4.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 139,344 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
John Kerry2004
+11.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+8.9 · U.S. R+2.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · +9.3 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2024
+2.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+4.3 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +1.4 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 3rd State Senate District sits in the Gulf South and peninsula. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 88.8 points in 1892 and a Republican high of 38.8 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 4.3 points.
A population of 541,142, a 59% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $61,143 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 5 and State Senate District 17.
The state-senate 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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