- Lead
- 25,635
- Total
- 233,132
- vs nation
- D+12.5
Florida 17th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 49,918
- Total
- 248,835
- vs nation
- D+15.6
- Lead
- 47,985
- Total
- 216,187
- vs nation
- D+20.1
- Lead
- 28,972
- Total
- 184,585
- vs nation
- D+11.8
- Lead
- 29,530
- Total
- 182,700
- vs nation
- D+8.9
- Lead
- 3,605
- Total
- 153,656
- vs nation
- D+0.1
- Lead
- 481
- Total
- 111,477
- vs nation
- R+1.0
- Lead
- 2,230
- Total
- 92,507
- vs nation
- R+10.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+11.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 533,7882024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,141 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 468 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $81,8112024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 40.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 9.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 40.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+87.4 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+60.7 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 25, FL · twin score 83.6
presidential history
Party record book
Florida 17th 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
Joe Biden2020
59.4%
147,783 votes · D+20.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 58.8%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
50.8%
78,089 votes · R+2.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2000 · 48.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
147,783votes
59.4% of the vote · D+20.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 127,702 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
102,067votes
43.8% of the vote · D+11.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 97,865 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
+20.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+22.2 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +15.6 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2000
+1.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+0.4 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · −0.1 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.
Its Democratic presidential margin was D+11.0 in 2024 and D+16.2 in 2008. No racial group formed a majority of its residents in the 2024 ACS 5-year, with White residents at 42%.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 87.4 points in 1892 and a Republican high of 60.7 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 9.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 11.0 points.
A population of 533,788, a 41% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $81,811 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 25 and State Senate District 15.
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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