- Lead
- 68,303
- Total
- 291,031
- vs nation
- R+22.0
Florida 9th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 45,970
- Total
- 283,638
- vs nation
- R+20.7
- Lead
- 41,068
- Total
- 244,083
- vs nation
- R+18.9
- Lead
- 21,966
- Total
- 227,053
- vs nation
- R+13.5
- Lead
- 11,179
- Total
- 230,333
- vs nation
- R+12.1
- Lead
- 20,656
- Total
- 199,430
- vs nation
- R+7.9
- Lead
- 5,380
- Total
- 148,686
- vs nation
- R+4.1
- Lead
- 3,160
- Total
- 130,021
- vs nation
- R+6.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+23.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 536,9862024 5-year
- Population density
- 173 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 3,104 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $59,7602024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 64.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 13.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 13.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+74.4 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+40.2 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 8, FL · twin score 93.3
presidential history
Party record book
Florida 9th 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
Barack Obama2008
46.9%
108,035 votes · R+4.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · 46.5%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
61.3%
178,529 votes · R+23.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 57.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
117,540votes
41.4% of the vote · R+16.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 110,226 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
178,529votes
61.3% of the vote · R+23.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 163,510 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
Al Gore2000
−4.1pts D vs U.S.
Place R+3.6 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · −7.9 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2024
+22.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+23.5 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +20.7 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.
The district recorded a Republican presidential margin of R+23.4 in 2024, compared with R+4.8 in 2008. About 585,000 residents lived here, with White alone at 68.1% in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 74.4 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 40.2 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 23.5 points.
A population of 536,986, a 65% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $59,760 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 8 and State Senate District 27.
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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