Florida 28th State Senate District, Florida: Old Confederacy district. In 2024, voted R+32%. Democratic peak: D+98 in 1892.
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+32MIT Election Lab
- Political archetype
- Old ConfederacyAkashic typology
- Population
- 654,7632024 5-year
- Median household income
- $83,3102024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 64.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 7.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 29.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+98 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+60 in 1972MIT Election Lab
| Year | Won | Margin | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | 112,210 | 218,123 | 332,515 | ||
| R | 123,845 | 197,928 | 323,900 | ||
| R | 98,410 | 161,774 | 267,379 | ||
| R | 85,298 | 142,241 | 228,996 | ||
| R | 90,797 | 130,810 | 223,382 | ||
| R | 72,436 | 127,141 | 201,484 | ||
| R | 52,450 | 93,011 | 148,635 | ||
| R | 44,280 | 67,632 | 124,880 | ||
| R | 35,542 | 60,957 | 123,435 | ||
| R | 25,474 | 65,750 | 91,786 | ||
| R | 18,950 | 60,412 | 79,374 | ||
| R | 17,650 | 42,588 | 63,810 | ||
| R | 19,111 | 26,449 | 46,248 | ||
| R | 6,405 | 25,890 | 32,363 | ||
| R | 5,114 | 10,029 | 22,024 | ||
| R | 6,907 | 8,608 | 15,515 | ||
| R | 4,500 | 6,465 | 10,965 | ||
| R | 3,493 | 4,988 | 8,481 | ||
| R | 3,162 | 3,453 | 6,615 | ||
| D | 1,557 | 1,183 | 3,698 | ||
| D | 2,454 | 1,016 | 3,469 | ||
| D | 2,776 | 898 | 3,674 | ||
| D | 2,312 | 620 | 2,932 | ||
| D | 1,778 | 455 | 2,233 | ||
| R | 826 | 1,028 | 1,885 | ||
| D | 502 | 181 | 778 | ||
| D | 246 | 164 | 445 | ||
| D | 197 | 44 | 298 | ||
| D | 114 | 10 | 188 | ||
| D | 70 | 19 | 140 | ||
| D | 70 | 22 | 130 | ||
| D | 73 | 10 | 90 | ||
| D | 58 | 20 | 82 | ||
| D | 41 | 0 | 42 | ||
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| O | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
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Demographics
Florida 28th State Senate District sits in the Gulf South and peninsula. For nearly a century after Reconstruction, the district voted Democratic — not because of New Deal politics, but because of the lingering memory of the Civil War. The Democratic party of the Solid South was the party of segregation, and in Florida 28th State Senate District as throughout the former Confederacy, Republican identification was politically untenable until the second half of the twentieth century.
The shift began with civil rights. 1952 marked the realignment in Florida 28th State Senate District, by a four points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at sixty points in 1972. The 2024 margin was thirty-two points.
The political shift has tracked, in Florida 28th State Senate District, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 65% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $83,310, and a 12% poverty rate describe the demographic context.
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State Senate District 28, Florida. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/12028/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.