Jacksonville · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
83.5%
48,871 votes · D+67.1
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 82.4%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
74.5%
192,205 votes · R+49.3
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 64.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
426,937votes
40.4% of the vote · R+18.0
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 406,248 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
657,240votes
61.2% of the vote · R+23.4
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 617,523 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
Alton B. Parker1904
+61.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+41.5 · U.S. R+19.7
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +61.1 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+26.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+4.1 · U.S. D+22.6
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · +26.2 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Some U.S. House rows cover a contest held in only part of this Place — the votes are real, but the total is not place-wide because the rest of the Place had no such race that year.
Jacksonville · how this place’s counties split between candidates 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 there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Jacksonville, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton7Obama5Edwards3158,608 votes · 15 of 15 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Clinton13Sanders2144,500 votes · 15 of 15 countiesprimary
Biden15145,392 votes · 15 of 15 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○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 · 2023R+14.3
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+23.4
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 9.1 points more Republican than the rolls.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Jacksonville
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2017 (partial)
1,093,456
372,782
481,575
232,640
6,459
2019 (partial)
1,164,826
395,065
504,926
251,638
13,197
2021 (partial)
1,232,113
407,071
539,936
262,944
22,162
2023 (partial)
1,196,979
370,040
540,920
257,756
28,263
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+21,703 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +275,224 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Jacksonville in Jacksonville: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+1,818
2012
+4,042
2013
+4,576
2014
+13,259
2015
+19,288
2016
+21,532
2017
+22,200
2018
+22,712
2019
+23,956
2021
+31,063
2022
+32,920
2023
+33,362
2024
+22,793
2025
+21,703
Jacksonville's media market spans the northeastern Florida coast and bleeds into coastal Georgia, reaching an electorate shaped by a large active-duty and veteran population that has historically tilted competitive in federal contests while reliably backing statewide Republican candidates.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 68.0 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 49.3 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 5.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 23.4 points.
A population of 2,104,227, a 61% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $77,599 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Mobile-Pensacola (Fort Walton Beach) and Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville-Anderson.
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In 2024, Jacksonville, Florida voted Republican by 23.4 points (R+23.4), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 1,073,765 votes cast, 406,248 went Democratic and 657,240 went Republican.
When did Jacksonville, Florida last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Jacksonville, Florida voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Jacksonville, Florida?
Jacksonville, Florida has a population of 2,104,227 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Jacksonville, Florida?
Median household income in Jacksonville, Florida is $77,599 — below the national median of $80,734. The Florida state median is $77,353.
What is the political history of Jacksonville, Florida?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Jacksonville, Florida from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 18 went Democratic and 15 went Republican.
