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Question interpretation
What drove Miami-Dade County, FL's presidential margin swing between 2020 and 2024 — magnitude of shift, sub-geographic concentration within the county, demographic composition, and comparison to Florida and national trends.
Ambiguity notes
- Interpreting 'swing' as the difference in presidential margin between 2020 and 2024 cycles, using the (dem-rep)/total convention.
- 'What drove' is approached descriptively via magnitude, sub-geographic concentration within the county, demographic composition, and state/national comparison — not causal attribution.
- Including the full 2008-2024 arc in the historical_trend section so the 2020→2024 swing is contextualized against the longer trajectory.
Resolution strategy
- 01lookup_geography→ miami_dade
Parameters
{ "query": "Miami-Dade County, FL", "preferred_geo_types": [ "county" ] }
Plus 2 comparison shapes: containing_state, national.
Data pulls
- reaggregationmiami_dade · 2024, 2020, 2016, 2012, 2008
- demographicsmiami_dade
- historymiami_dade · 2024, 2020, 2016, 2012, 2008
Sections
- 01overview
- 02shape_map
- 03flip_analysis
- 04historical_trend
- 05demographic_lens
- 06comparison_table
Narrative angle
Headline emphasis. Magnitude of the 2020 to 2024 margin change, the sub-geographies inside Miami-Dade where the shift concentrated, and how the county's Hispanic-majority composition contextualizes the movement against Florida and national swings
Frame. Miami-Dade's 2020 to 2024 presidential swing — magnitude, sub-geographic concentration, and demographic context of a Hispanic-majority urban county relative to Florida and the nation.
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}- Plan drafted
- Shape resolved — miami_dade
- Section 2 · overview
- Section 3 · shape_map
- Section 4 · flip_analysis
- Section 5 · historical_trend
- Section 6 · demographic_lens
- Section 7 · comparison_table
Miami-Dade's 2020 to 2024 presidential swing — magnitude, sub-geographic concentration, and demographic context of a Hispanic-majority urban
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Miami-Dade's 2020 to 2024 presidential swing — magnitude, sub-geographic concentration, and demographic context of a Hispanic-majority urban
- R+0.6
- D+7.3
- 51.0%
- Miami-Dade
- 3 · FL
- 25.43°N, 80.41°W
- z8
- 0.76° × 0.84°
Miami-Dade County at the southern tip of Florida, anchoring the Miami metropolitan area.
Flipped R from 2020 to 2024. -18.8 points.
Miami-Dade flipped R in 2024 at R+11.5, reversing D+7.4 in 2020 — 18.8 points rightward, 2020→2024. The county's margin has now moved 41.1 points right since 2016, when it sat at D+29.6.
Shifted 27.6 pts left across 16 years.
- 2,738,356
- 2,146,298
- 0.0%
- $71,753
- 34.4%
- 14.7%
- 54.5%
Plurality Hispanic at 69.3%, 2.74M people, with a voting-age population of 2.15M. Foreign-born residents make up 54.53% of the county. Median household income sits at $71,753 and 34.4% of adults hold a bachelor's degree.
| Geography | 2016 | 2020 | 2024 | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miami-Dade | D+29.6 | D+7.3 | R+11.4 | -27.6 pts |
| Florida | R+1.2 | R+3.4 | R+13.1 | -11.9 pts |
| FL-28 | D+15.6 | R+5.8 | R+25.4 | -41.0 pts |
- Miami-Dade-27.6 pts
- D+29.6
- D+7.3
- R+11.4
- Florida-11.9 pts
- R+1.2
- R+3.4
- R+13.1
- FL-28-41.0 pts
- D+15.6
- R+5.8
- R+25.4