Florida · 2016 presidential election
Florida presidential election results 2016
Donald J. Trump carried Florida by 1.20 points (112,911 votes), winning 29 electoral votes.
- Electoral votes
- 29
- Votes counted
- 9,420,039
- FL result
- R+1.2
- Compared with the nation
- 3.2 pts more Republican
- Swing since 2012
- 2.1 pts to R
Statewide result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Bar | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donald J. Trump | Republican | 4,617,886 | 49.00% | 29 | |
| Hillary Clinton | Democratic | 4,504,975 | 47.80% | — | |
| Gary Johnson | Libertarian | 207,043 | 2.20% | — | |
| Total votes | 9,420,039 | ||||
Certified state documentCertified
Every ticket on the ballot, as printed in the certified document (the statewide table above groups minor candidates as “Others” when the source does).
All 12 tickets as printed in the document
| Ticket (as printed) | Code | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trump / Pence (REP) | REP | 4,617,886 | 49.02% |
| Clinton / Kaine (DEM) | DEM | 4,504,975 | 47.82% |
| Johnson / Weld (LPF) | LPF | 207,043 | 2.20% |
| Stein / Baraka (GRE) | GRE | 64,399 | 0.68% |
| Castle / Bradley (CPF) | CPF | 16,475 | 0.17% |
| De La Fuente / Steinberg (REF) | REF | 9,108 | 0.10% |
| Kotlikoff / Leamer (WRI) | WRI | 74 | 0.00% |
| Duncan / Johnson (WRI) | WRI | 25 | 0.00% |
| Basiago / Kinnison (WRI) | WRI | 24 | 0.00% |
| Gyurko / Memmel (WRI) | WRI | 19 | 0.00% |
| Valdivia / Barnere (WRI) | WRI | 9 | 0.00% |
| Fox / Kushner (WRI) | WRI | 2 | 0.00% |
| Total as printed | 9,420,039 | ||
Notes on how this document was read
- Ticket names are printed on the line above and below the numbers (Trump / … / Pence); the three lines are joined. The votes and the percentage are printed without a gap ('207,0432.2%'): they are split at the fixed column boundary (x = 164 pt) by character position.
- The 'total votes cast' line (9,420,039) is total_votes.
Method: text layer: words grouped by baseline (pdfplumber), numeric tokens taken as the row's values under the spec's column labels; each row's digits matched against PyMuPDF's words (second extraction)
County resultsMIT Election Lab
Download CSV| County | Hillary Clinton | Donald J. Trump | Others | Total | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alachua | 75,820 | 46,834 | 5,917 | 128,571 | 22.5 |
| Baker | 2,112 | 10,294 | 228 | 12,634 | 64.8 |
| Bay | 21,797 | 62,194 | 3,462 | 87,453 | 46.2 |
| Bradford | 2,924 | 8,913 | 261 | 12,098 | 49.5 |
| Brevard | 119,679 | 181,848 | 13,225 | 314,752 | 19.8 |
| Broward | 553,320 | 260,951 | 17,680 | 831,951 | 35.1 |
| Calhoun | 1,241 | 4,655 | 185 | 6,081 | 56.1 |
| Charlotte | 33,445 | 60,218 | 2,711 | 96,374 | 27.8 |
| Citrus | 22,789 | 54,456 | 2,455 | 79,700 | 39.7 |
| Clay | 27,822 | 74,963 | 3,698 | 106,483 | 44.3 |
| Collier | 61,085 | 105,423 | 4,281 | 170,789 | 26.0 |
| Columbia | 7,601 | 20,368 | 738 | 28,707 | 44.5 |
| Desoto | 3,781 | 6,778 | 259 | 10,818 | 27.7 |
| Dixie | 1,270 | 5,822 | 110 | 7,202 | 63.2 |
| Duval | 205,704 | 211,672 | 15,319 | 432,695 | 1.4 |
| Escambia | 57,461 | 88,808 | 6,200 | 152,469 | 20.6 |
| Flagler | 22,026 | 33,850 | 1,627 | 57,503 | 20.6 |
| Franklin | 1,744 | 4,125 | 146 | 6,015 | 39.6 |
| Gadsden | 15,020 | 6,728 | 365 | 22,113 | 37.5 |
| Gilchrist | 1,458 | 6,740 | 222 | 8,420 | 62.7 |
| Glades | 1,271 | 2,996 | 86 | 4,353 | 39.6 |
| Gulf | 1,720 | 5,329 | 244 | 7,293 | 49.5 |
| Hamilton | 1,904 | 3,443 | 113 | 5,460 | 28.2 |
| Hardee | 2,149 | 5,242 | 192 | 7,583 | 40.8 |
| Hendry | 4,615 | 6,195 | 305 | 11,115 | 14.2 |
| Hernando | 31,795 | 58,970 | 3,031 | 93,796 | 29.0 |
| Highlands | 14,937 | 29,565 | 1,184 | 45,686 | 32.0 |
| Hillsborough | 307,896 | 266,870 | 22,894 | 597,660 | 6.9 |
| Holmes | 853 | 7,483 | 178 | 8,514 | 77.9 |
| Indian River | 29,043 | 48,620 | 2,346 | 80,009 | 24.5 |
| Jackson | 6,397 | 14,257 | 387 | 21,041 | 37.4 |
| Jefferson | 3,541 | 3,930 | 174 | 7,645 | 5.1 |
| Lafayette | 518 | 2,809 | 65 | 3,392 | 67.5 |
| Lake | 62,838 | 102,188 | 5,436 | 170,462 | 23.1 |
| Lee | 124,908 | 191,551 | 9,961 | 326,420 | 20.4 |
| Leon | 92,068 | 53,821 | 6,243 | 152,132 | 25.1 |
| Levy | 5,101 | 13,775 | 519 | 19,395 | 44.7 |
| Liberty | 651 | 2,543 | 102 | 3,296 | 57.4 |
| Madison | 3,526 | 4,851 | 128 | 8,505 | 15.6 |
| Manatee | 71,224 | 101,944 | 5,790 | 178,958 | 17.2 |
| Marion | 62,041 | 107,833 | 4,826 | 174,700 | 26.2 |
| Martin | 30,185 | 53,204 | 2,403 | 85,792 | 26.8 |
| Miami-Dade | 624,146 | 333,999 | 22,059 | 980,204 | 29.6 |
| Monroe | 18,971 | 21,904 | 1,603 | 42,478 | 6.9 |
| Nassau | 10,869 | 34,266 | 1,472 | 46,607 | 50.2 |
| Okaloosa | 23,780 | 71,893 | 5,182 | 100,855 | 47.7 |
| Okeechobee | 3,959 | 9,356 | 338 | 13,653 | 39.5 |
| Orange | 329,894 | 195,216 | 21,165 | 546,275 | 24.7 |
| Osceola | 85,458 | 50,301 | 4,447 | 140,206 | 25.1 |
| Palm Beach | 374,673 | 272,402 | 15,257 | 662,332 | 15.4 |
| Pasco | 90,142 | 142,101 | 8,896 | 241,139 | 21.5 |
| Pinellas | 233,701 | 239,201 | 19,501 | 492,403 | 1.1 |
| Polk | 117,433 | 157,430 | 9,451 | 284,314 | 14.1 |
| Putnam | 10,094 | 22,138 | 885 | 33,117 | 36.4 |
| Santa Rosa | 18,464 | 65,339 | 3,942 | 87,745 | 53.4 |
| Sarasota | 97,870 | 124,438 | 6,755 | 229,063 | 11.6 |
| Seminole | 105,914 | 109,443 | 9,539 | 224,896 | 1.6 |
| St. Johns | 43,099 | 88,684 | 4,731 | 136,514 | 33.4 |
| St. Lucie | 66,881 | 70,289 | 3,677 | 140,847 | 2.4 |
| Sumter | 22,638 | 52,730 | 1,297 | 76,665 | 39.3 |
| Suwannee | 3,964 | 14,287 | 443 | 18,694 | 55.2 |
| Taylor | 2,152 | 6,930 | 208 | 9,290 | 51.4 |
| Union | 1,014 | 4,568 | 112 | 5,694 | 62.4 |
| Volusia | 109,091 | 143,007 | 8,771 | 260,869 | 13.0 |
| Wakulla | 4,348 | 10,512 | 491 | 15,351 | 40.2 |
| Walton | 6,876 | 25,756 | 1,005 | 33,637 | 56.1 |
| Washington | 2,264 | 8,637 | 255 | 11,156 | 57.1 |
Candidate votes as printed in the document. “Total” is the document’s total where it prints one, otherwise the sum of the candidate columns. Margin is the leading ticket’s lead in points over the second.
Notes on how this document was read
- Secondary source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016 (compiled from official state election records).
Method: Machine-readable dataset; county sums checked against the state totals in The American Presidency Project summary (within 0.5% for both main tickets).
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Questions and answers
Who won Florida in 2016?
Donald J. Trump won Florida by 1.20 percentage points (112,911 votes).
How many electoral votes did Florida have in 2016?
Florida cast 29 electoral votes in 2016.
How many people voted for president in Florida in 2016?
9,420,039 votes were counted for president.
How many counties did each candidate win in Florida in 2016?
Donald J. Trump 58, Hillary Clinton 9 (out of 67 counties with results).
How did Florida change from 2012 to 2016?
The margin moved 2.1 points toward the Republican ticket, from Democratic by 0.9 points to Republican by 1.2 points.
Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data