Boundary by 2024 margin · Precinct returns · VEST · MIT Election Lab
People and households
Who lives here
Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.
Race · ethnicity · ancestry
Communities and origins
GroupLafayette CountyFloridaUnited States
English10.9%8.2%9.5%
American10.9%7.7%5.3%
Irish4.9%8.2%9.4%
German4.7%8.9%12.5%
Scottish1.3%1.3%1.3%
Italian1.2%5.6%4.8%
Scotch-Irish0.5%——
Canadian0.3%——
African American†15.7%9.5%9.9%
Jamaican1.0%1.5%0.4%
African0.4%0.5%0.5%
Haitian0.4%2.3%0.3%
Cuban4.4%7.3%0.7%
Mexican3.8%3.3%11.3%
Dominican2.0%1.3%0.7%
Puerto Rican0.9%5.6%1.8%
Colombian0.2%2.1%0.4%
Peruvian0.2%——
Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.
Age and life stage
Measure
Lafayette County
Florida
United States
Median age
42.3
43.1
39.1
Age 18–24
9.1%
8.1%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
21.4%
21.3%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Lafayette County
Florida
United States
Median household income
$62,757
$74,568
$84,427
Poverty rate
17.5%
12.6%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
9.9%
34.2%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Lafayette County
Florida
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
11.3%
30.7%
22.3%
Spanish
10.7%
22.6%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Lafayette County
Florida
United States
Catholic
6.1%
19.0%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
38.9%
18.5%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
53.6%
53.1%
51.5%
American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.
Lafayette County, Florida
Precinct data
Results by precinct
5 precincts · 3,767 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Lafayette County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -44
80
895
5
980
8.2%
91.3%
R+83.2
Precinct -33
81
855
9
945
8.6%
90.5%
R+81.9
Precinct -11
69
690
7
766
9.0%
90.1%
R+81.1
Precinct -22
60
538
5
603
10.0%
89.2%
R+79.3
Precinct -55
151
318
4
473
31.9%
67.2%
R+35.3
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1884–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1884
+77.7%
1888
No data
1892
No data
1896
No data
1900
No data
1904
+35.3%
1908
+61.6%
1912
+64.9%
1916
+84.5%
1920
+76.9%
1924
+80.0%
1928
+52.2%
1932
+94.4%
1936
+86.3%
1940
+79.9%
1944
+71.0%
1948
+80.6%
1952
+57.0%
1956
+69.9%
1960
+45.5%
1964
−8.6%
1968
+5.3%
1972
−71.7%
1976
+36.2%
1980
+12.8%
1984
−27.4%
1988
−33.4%
1992
−6.8%
1996
−14.5%
2000
−35.2%
2004
−48.6%
2008
−60.6%
2012
−58.3%
2016
−67.5%
2020
−71.6%
2024
−76.0%
DemocraticRepublican
38 presidential elections
Third column names the leading third-party or independent finisher. Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024). Swing · margin change from the prior cycle. vs U.S. · margin relative to the national result that year.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Other
Margin
Swing
vs U.S.
Total
R
11.7%Harris441
87.8%Trump3,296
0.2%Oliver6 +3
R+76.0
R+4.4
R+74.5
3,756
All 6 candidates in 2024 · 4 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican87.8%3,296
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic11.7%441
Chase OliverLibertarian0.2%6
Jill SteinIndependent0.2%6
Randall TerryIndependent0.1%5
Claudia De La CruzIndependent0.1%2
R
13.9%Biden510
85.5%Trump3,128
0.4%Jorgensen14
R+71.6
R+4.0
R+76.0
3,658
R
15.3%Clinton518
82.8%Trump2,809
1.4%Johnson47
R+67.5
R+9.3
R+69.6
3,392
R
20.2%Obama687
78.5%Romney2,668
1.3%
R+58.3
D+2.4
R+62.1
3,399
R
19.1%Obama642
79.8%McCain2,679
1.1%
R+60.6
R+12.1
R+67.9
3,359
R
25.4%Kerry845
74.0%Bush2,460
0.6%
R+48.6
R+13.4
R+46.1
3,325
R
31.5%Gore789
66.7%Bush1,670
1.0%Nader26
R+35.2
R+20.7
R+35.7
2,505
R
35.7%Clinton829
50.2%Dole1,166
13.6%Perot316
R+14.5
R+7.7
R+23.0
2,322
R
34.3%Clinton867
41.1%Bush1,039
24.2%Perot612
R+6.8
D+26.6
R+12.4
2,525
R
33.0%Dukakis722
66.4%Bush1,451
0.5%
R+33.4
R+6.0
R+25.6
2,185
R
36.3%Mondale862
63.7%Reagan1,513
0.0%
R+27.4
R+40.2
R+9.2
2,375
D
55.5%Carter1,034
42.7%Reagan795
1.8%
D+12.8
R+23.4
D+22.6
1,863
D
67.6%Carter1,126
31.4%Ford523
1.0%
D+36.2
D+107.9
D+34.2
1,665
R
14.0%McGovern173
85.7%Nixon1,060
0.3%
R+71.7
R+77.0
R+48.6
1,237
O
14.6%Humphrey215
9.3%Nixon137
76.2%
Wallace +61.6
D+13.9
D+6.0
1,477
R
45.7%Johnson545
54.3%Goldwater648
0.0%
R+8.6
R+54.1
R+31.2
1,193
D
72.8%Kennedy793
27.2%Nixon297
0.0%
D+45.5
R+24.4
D+45.3
1,090
D
84.9%Stevenson1,054
15.1%Eisenhower187
0.0%
D+69.9
D+12.9
D+85.3
1,241
D
78.5%Stevenson981
21.5%Eisenhower269
0.0%
D+57.0
R+23.7
D+67.7
1,250
D
85.2%Truman975
4.5%Dewey52
10.3%
D+80.6
D+9.6
D+76.1
1,145
D
85.5%Roosevelt825
14.5%Dewey140
0.0%
D+71.0
R+8.9
D+63.5
965
D
89.9%Roosevelt1,090
10.1%Willkie122
0.0%
D+79.9
R+6.4
D+69.9
1,212
D
93.1%Roosevelt1,084
6.9%Landon80
0.0%
D+86.3
R+8.1
D+62.0
1,164
D
97.2%Roosevelt929
2.8%Hoover27
0.0%
D+94.4
D+42.2
D+76.6
956
D
75.7%Smith435
23.5%Hoover135
0.9%
D+52.2
R+27.9
D+69.6
575
D
88.2%Davis358
8.1%Coolidge33
2.7%La Follette11
D+80.0
D+3.2
D+105.2
406
D
86.6%Cox618
9.7%Harding69
3.8%
D+76.9
R+7.7
D+103.1
714
D
89.3%Wilson849
4.7%Hughes45
6.0%
D+84.5
D+19.6
D+81.4
951
D
76.8%Wilson473
11.9%Taft73
11.4%
D+64.9
D+3.4
D+45.4
616
D
75.5%Bryan487
14.0%Taft90
10.5%
D+61.6
D+26.3
D+71.1
645
D
63.4%Parker275
28.1%Roosevelt122
8.5%
D+35.3
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D+54.9
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D
88.9%Cleveland383
11.1%Blaine48
0.0%
D+77.7
—
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431
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Congressional elections · 3 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2024
R
12.2%454
85.5%3,183
3,724
2022
R
12.0%348
86.7%2,521
2,907
2018
R
22.1%621
77.9%2,194
2,815
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024R+60.6
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+76.0
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 15 points more Democratic.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
Voter registration in Lafayette County, FL
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2017
4,293
2,449
1,537
296
11
2018
4,371
2,189
1,867
302
13
2019
4,412
1,975
2,098
323
16
2020
4,606
1,197
3,052
318
39
2021
4,484
1,082
3,038
316
48
2023
4,591
922
3,258
354
57
2024
4,468
684
3,393
321
70
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+29 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −111 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $48,433 in average income, against $58,623 for residents who stayed — 17% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
The places arrivals came from lean R+61.0 on average — 15 points more Democratic-leaning than Lafayette County, FL itself (R+76.0).
Where arrivals came from lean of each source
Suwannee County, FL43R+61.0
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Suwannee County, FL36
Migration is one input to a place’s political change, not its cause — a shift can also come from residents changing their minds, generational turnover, or turnout. These figures describe the places people moved between; they do not measure how any mover voted.
Domestic migration in Lafayette County, FL in Lafayette County, FL: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−21
2012
−12
2013
+8
2014
+7
2015
−194
2016
−20
2017
−204
2018
+21
2019
−254
2021
−207
2022
−129
2023
+404
2024
+461
2025
+29
Lafayette County's rural, timber-economy character and sparse population of roughly 7,000 have produced some of the most lopsided presidential results in Florida, with Republican margins routinely exceeding 70 points.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 94.4 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 76.0 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 4.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 76.0 points.
A population of 8,161, a 67% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $62,757 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Grant Parish and Bacon County.
Akashic
Political twins — counties
The counties whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
In 2024, Lafayette County, Florida voted Republican by 76.0 points (R+76.0), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 3,756 votes cast, 441 went Democratic and 3,296 went Republican.
When did Lafayette County, Florida last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Lafayette County, Florida voted Democratic was 1980.
How many people live in Lafayette County, Florida?
Lafayette County, Florida has a population of 8,161 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Lafayette County, Florida?
Median household income in Lafayette County, Florida is $62,757 — below the national median of $80,734. The Florida state median is $74,568.
What is the political history of Lafayette County, Florida?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Lafayette County, Florida from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 18 went Democratic and 13 went Republican.
