Florida Primary Stats from 2000 to 2008

Updated April 6, 2008, 5pm

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Note: The popular votes in Florida have already been certified by election officials, and officially tallied by the Secretary of State.

Florida Democrat Primaries:

With no campaigning, there were 996,158 more Democrat voters in 2008 than in 2004
With no campaigning, there were 1,198,004 more Democrat voters in 2008 than in 2000

2008 Closed Primary
1/29/08
No Campaigning

2004 Closed Primary
3/9/04

 2000 Closed Primary
3/14/08
Clinton, Hillary 870,986 Kerry, John 581,672 Gore, Al 451,657
Obama, Barack 576,214 Edwards, John 75,703 Bradley, Bill 100,259
Edwards, John 251,562 Others 27,098    
Biden, Joe 15,704 Sharpton, Al 21,031    
Richardson, Bill 14,999 Dean, Howard 20,834    
Kucinich, Dennis 9,703 Kucinich, Dennis 17,198    
Dodd, Chris 5,477 Clark, Wesley 10,226    
Gravel, Mike 5,275        

Total:

 1,749,920

Total:

 753,762

Total:

 551,916

Total Voter Registration in 2008 for the Presidential Preference was 10,203,112. Turnout was 4,268,602. 41.8% turnout rate
Total Voter Registration in 2004 for the Presidential Preference was 3,916,207. Turnout was 786,203.  20.1% turnout rate
Total Voter Registration in 2000 for the Presidential Preference was 6,941,509. Turnout was 1,341,844. 19.3 % turnout rate

With no campaigning in 2008, Barack Obama nearly received as many votes as the winner John Kerry did in 2004, only -5,458 less, and received 124,557 more votes than Al Gore in 2000

With no campaigning in 2008, John Edwards received 175,859 more votes than he did in 2004

With no campaigning in 2008, Hillary Clinton, alone, received more votes than the entire total list of 2004 & 2000 Democrat candidates. She also received more votes than the Republican 2008 winner, John McCain by 169,225 votes. And she received more votes than the entire list of candidates in the Republican Primary of 2000

Florida Republican Primaries:

2008 Closed Primary
1/29/08

2004 Closed Primary
Delegate Votes
3/9/04

 2000 Closed Primary
3/14/08
McCain, John 701,761 Bush, George 109 Bush, George 516,161
Romney, Mitt 604,932 Uncommitted 3 McCain, John 139,397
Giuliani, Rudolph 286,089     Keyes, Alan 32,343
Huckabee, Mike 262,681     Forbes, Steve 6,552
Paul, Ron 62,887     Bauer, Gary 3,493
Thompson, Fred 22,668     Hatch, Orrin 1,371
Keyes, Alan 4,060        
Hunter, Duncan 2,847        
Tancredo, Tom 1,573        

Total:

 1,949,498

Total:

112

Total:

 699,317

2004 Presidential Election
Florida Results		 2000 Presidential Election
Florida Results
Bush, George 3,964,522 Bush, George 2,912,790
Kerry, John 3,583,544 Gore, Al 2,912,253
Nader, Ralph 32,971 Nader, Ralph 97,488
Badnarik, Michael 11,996 Buchanan, Pat 17,484
Peroutka, Michael 6,626 Browne, Harry 16,415
Cobb, David 3,917 Others: 6,680
Brown, Walter 3,502    
Harris, James 2,732    

Total:

 7,609,810

Total:

 5,963,110

 

Presidential Elections over 44 years
2004 (R) Bush over (D) Kerry Bush won by 3,012,171 votes
2000 (R) Bush over (D) Gore * Gore won the Popular Vote by +543,816
1996 (D) Clinton over (R) Dole Clinton won by 8,201,370 votes
1992 (D) Clinton over (R) Bush Sr. Clinton won by 5,805,256 votes
1988 (R) Bush Sr. over (D) Dukakis Bush Sr. won by 7,077,121 votes
1984 (R) Reagan over (D) Mondale Reagan won by 16,878,120 votes
1980 (R) Reagan over (D) Carter Reagan won by 8,423,115 votes
1976 (D) Carter over (R) Ford Carter won by 1,683,247 votes
1972 (R) Nixon over (D) McGovern Nixon won by 17,995,488 votes
1968 (R) Nixon over (D) Humphrey Nixon won by 511,944 votes
1964 (D) Johnson over (R) Goldwater Johnson won by 15,951,287 votes
1960 (D) Kennedy over (R) Nixon Kennedy won by 112,827 votes

 

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