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Florida early vote 2026

State file of Oct 25 · Florida Division of Elections, vote-by-mail and early voting statistics ↗ · newest count via civicAPI ↗

On the ballot in Florida: Senate forecast → · Governor forecast →

Newest count from civicAPI, Oct 25 Florida's own file runs through Oct 24. civicAPI, which compiles counts from state and county election offices, had a newer one, shown as the last day; the state's own file takes over again once it catches up.

Ballots returned2,689,101through Oct 25 · +86,288 that day
vs 2022−3%same day of voting
Registered D–R gapD+0.12022 same point: R+3.5
Day of voting329 days to Election Day

Ballots by party, day by day

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Each line adds up one party’s ballots, day by day. Solid is 2026; dashed is the year picked, lined up on the same day of voting. A solid line above its dashed one means more of that party’s ballots than at the same point then. Hover, tap or use the arrow keys to read a day.
0500K1.0M1.5MDay 19Day 22Day 29Day 34In-person voting opensD 1.1MR 1.1M
Day 32 of voting · Oct 2520262022 · Oct 30ChangeDem1,068,5461,077,263−1%Rep1,066,3601,173,014−9%

2024 has a count on only 6 of these days, too few to draw. 2022 survives only in copies of the state's page saved on some days (the dots); dotted where none was saved. This year's count starts on day 21 (Oct 14), the first day it was recorded here; this year's earlier days were not kept. Each line is a running total, so it starts where the ballots already stood.

Registered Democrats have cast 1% fewer ballots than at this point in 2022, Republicans 9% fewer and unaffiliated voters 6% more.

Against whole elections

So far, Florida’s early ballots equal 35% of all votes cast for U.S. Senate in 2022 and 25% of all votes cast for President in 2024.

  • 2026 so farearly ballots returned2,689,101
  • 2022 earlylast count kept, 2 days out, 62% of all votes4,789,974
  • 2022 all votescast for U.S. Senate7,758,014
Early ballots by party registration, and the result
YearEarly ballots, finalResult
2022R+6.7 2 days outR+16.4 U.S. Senate
2024R+10.1R+13.1 President

Registration is not a vote, and the result also counts every ballot cast on Election Day. Results: Federal Election Commission, Federal Elections 2022; Federal Election Commission, Official 2024 Presidential General Election Results.

Where the ballots are

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Each bar is a place’s ballots against the largest place’s, split by party registration: Democrats, unaffiliated, Republicans. The figure at the end is the D–R gap. All ballots in this year’s file.

Last column: this year's ballots as a share of the county's whole 2022 early vote.

  1. Miami-Dade240,618D+4.552%
  2. Broward191,026D+34.649%
  3. Palm Beach187,186D+19.856%
  4. Hillsborough169,041D+6.854%
  5. Pinellas148,350D+1.256%
  6. Orange146,768D+22.556%
  7. Lee132,471R+21.862%
  8. Brevard96,577R+12.062%
  9. Duval96,398D+12.150%
  10. Sarasota90,434R+6.664%

Party registration

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The party each voter registered with, not the ballot they cast. Unaffiliated includes minor parties. Earlier years are at the same point of their voting.
  • 2026D+0.1
  • 2022Oct 30R+3.5
  • 2024Oct 27R+10.9

Dem 1,068,546 −1%Rep 1,066,360 −9%Unaff. 554,195 +6%

Changes are against the same point of 2022.

Mail or in person

Mail 1,395,364 51.9%In person 1,293,737 48.1%

In-person early voting: Oct 24 to Oct 31. That is the statewide minimum; counties may add days from Oct 19 through Nov 1, and Miami-Dade opens Oct 19.

Known

  • 2,689,101 ballots returnedthrough Oct 25
  • Each ballot's party registration
  • Mail or in person
  • On 12 daysthe state's page as read each day since Oct 14; the newest, Oct 25, from civicAPI
  • By 67 counties
  • Against the same point of 2022

Not known

  • How anyone votedballots stay sealed until they are counted
  • How unaffiliated voters lean554,195, 21% of ballots
  • Election Day turnout
  • Mail ballots still outrequested or sent and not yet returned; not read from the state's file yet
  • Ballots reported after Oct 25
How Florida is counted and compared

Florida is 3% behind 2022 at this point.

  • 2022 is read on the same day of voting as this year. Voting opened 40 days before the election in 2022 (September 29) and 40 days before it this year (September 24), so each year is read on the same day of its own voting.
  • 2024 is read on the same day of voting as this year. Voting opened 40 days before the election in 2024 (September 26) and 40 days before it this year (September 24), so each year is read on the same day of its own voting.
  • Counts mail ballots returned ('Voted Vote-by-Mail') plus early in-person ballots ('Voted Early'); ballots provided but not yet returned are not counted.
  • Party is registered party: Other and No Party Affiliation are grouped as U.
  • Florida publishes county and party only; it releases no age, gender or race for early voters.
  • Each snapshot is the Division's compiled page; county reports are cumulative through the prior day, so a snapshot is dated the day before it was compiled.
  • Florida's 2021 law (SB 90) made standing vote-by-mail requests lapse after each regularly scheduled general election; all requests carried over from 2020 lapsed after the 2022 general. 2022 mail volume is therefore not comparable with 2024 and 2026.
  • 2024: Counts mail ballots returned ('Voted Vote-by-Mail') plus early in-person ballots ('Voted Early'); ballots provided but not yet returned are not counted.
  • 2024: Party is registered party: Other and No Party Affiliation are grouped as U.
  • 2024: Florida publishes county and party only; it releases no age, gender or race for early voters.
  • 2024: Each snapshot is the Division's compiled page; county reports are cumulative through the prior day, so a snapshot is dated the day before it was compiled.
  • 2024: Rebuilt from the Internet Archive's copies of the Division's statistics page, read and dated like the live page; days the archive did not capture are gaps, not carried forward. The capture behind each row is listed in the record's source.
  • 2024: Days the archive missed come from a second copy of the same page: the downloads the MIT Election Data and Science Lab kept (github.com/MEDSL/2024-EPC). They are used only where they agree exactly with the archive on every day both hold, and only on days their own stamp matches the day they were downloaded; each row names its copy in the record's source.
  • 2024: Florida's 2021 law (SB 90) made standing vote-by-mail requests lapse after each regularly scheduled general election; all requests carried over from 2020 lapsed after the 2022 general. 2022 mail volume is therefore not comparable with 2024 and 2026.
  • 2024: 2 captured copies whose mail and early-voting counts were compiled on different days are left out.
  • 2024: 7 MIT downloads whose own compile stamp is not the day they were downloaded are left out.
  • 2024: 13 MIT downloads that are cut short, or whose counties do not add up to their own state total, are left out.
  • 2024: 1 MIT mail days after early voting opened, with no early-voting file of the same day, are left out.
  • 2024: 13 days come from MIT's copy alone; on all 9 days both copies hold, they agree exactly.
  • 2024: 27 days captured by the archive, from 50 of its 636 copies (the first and last of each day); 40 days in all, 2024-09-07 to 2024-11-04.
  • 2022: Counts mail ballots returned ('Voted Vote-by-Mail') plus early in-person ballots ('Voted Early'); ballots provided but not yet returned are not counted.
  • 2022: Party is registered party: Other and No Party Affiliation are grouped as U.
  • 2022: Florida publishes county and party only; it releases no age, gender or race for early voters.
  • 2022: Each snapshot is the Division's compiled page; county reports are cumulative through the prior day, so a snapshot is dated the day before it was compiled.
  • 2022: Rebuilt from the Internet Archive's copies of the Division's statistics page, read and dated like the live page; days the archive did not capture are gaps, not carried forward. The capture behind each row is listed in the record's source.
  • 2022: Florida's 2021 law (SB 90) made standing vote-by-mail requests lapse after each regularly scheduled general election; all requests carried over from 2020 lapsed after the 2022 general. 2022 mail volume is therefore not comparable with 2024 and 2026.
  • 2022: 17 days captured, 2022-10-05 to 2022-11-06, from 29 of the archive's 50 copies (the first and last of each day).

Last checked Counts change only when a state has posted a new file.

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