Sebring, FL · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1924–2024 · 26 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1940
71.6%
2,215 votes · D+43.2
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944 · 70.7%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
79.5%
9,645 votes · R+59.2
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 70.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
18,135votes
40.5% of the vote · R+18.1
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 16,938 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
36,382votes
70.1% of the vote · R+40.8
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 34,873 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
John W. Davis1924
+49.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+24.2 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944 · +34.0 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2024
+39.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+40.8 · U.S. R+1.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +38.8 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Sebring, FL · which candidate this place backed in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain, and this place is a single county: Highlands County, Florida. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Sebring, FL, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024R+30.1
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+40.8
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 11 points more Republican than the rolls.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
Voter registration in Sebring, FL
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2017
58,998
18,518
27,007
13,295
178
2018
60,005
18,192
27,802
13,691
320
2019
61,702
18,260
28,514
14,494
434
2020
67,193
18,976
31,957
15,536
724
2021
67,332
18,243
32,137
16,114
838
2023
63,695
15,231
33,162
13,942
1,360
2024
66,171
15,177
35,081
13,857
2,056
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+1,727 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +22,806 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Sebring, FL in Sebring, FL: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+130
2012
+108
2013
+274
2014
+666
2015
+1,606
2016
+1,928
2017
+2,012
2018
+1,413
2019
+1,799
2021
+3,357
2022
+3,201
2023
+2,585
2024
+2,000
2025
+1,727
Sebring anchors a small, rural metro in south-central Florida where an aging, predominantly white population drives unusually high senior voter participation relative to its size, making retirement migration patterns a key variable in cycle-to-cycle margin shifts.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 43.2 points in 1940 and a Republican high of 59.2 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 6.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 40.8 points.
A population of 105,702, a 63% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $54,897 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Ocala, FL and Homosassa Springs, FL.
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In 2024, Sebring, FL, Florida voted Republican by 40.8 points (R+40.8), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 51,905 votes cast, 15,227 went Democratic and 36,382 went Republican.
When did Sebring, FL, Florida last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Sebring, FL, Florida voted Democratic was 1948.
How many people live in Sebring, FL, Florida?
Sebring, FL, Florida has a population of 105,702 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Sebring, FL, Florida?
Median household income in Sebring, FL, Florida is $54,897 — below the national median of $80,734. The Florida state median is $74,568.
What is the political history of Sebring, FL, Florida?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Sebring, FL, Florida from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 6 went Democratic and 20 went Republican.
