Registered Voters in Florida by Party: Totals, NPA Share, Shifts

As of February 28, 2026, Florida has 13,390,047 active registered voters. Broken down by party, Republicans lead with 5,535,837 registrations (41.3%), Democrats follow with 4,048,551 (30.2%), voters with no party affiliation number 3,334,336 (24.9%), and the fifteen recognized minor parties together account for 471,323 (3.5%). Republicans hold a registration edge of 1,487,286 over Democrats. These are the current figures for registered voters in Florida by party, published by the Florida Department of State, Division of Elections, which compiles the data from all 67 county Supervisors of Elections.¹

Statewide Totals at a Glance

Republican Party of Florida: 5,535,837 (41.3%)
Florida Democratic Party: 4,048,551 (30.2%)
No Party Affiliation: 3,334,336 (24.9%)
Minor parties combined: 471,323 (3.5%)

These numbers move with the election cycle. Registration peaks in even-numbered election years — the 2024 total reached 14,257,135 — then dips after rolls are cleaned. The February 2026 snapshot is an off-cycle figure and will likely climb as the midterm approaches.¹ The registration data is public record and posted on the Division of Elections website.²

How the Party Balance Has Shifted

Florida was a Democratic-registration state for decades. As recently as 2020, Democrats held 5,315,954 registrations against 5,218,739 Republicans, a lead of roughly 97,000. Republicans pulled ahead for the first time in 2021, holding 5,123,799 to the Democrats’ 5,080,697, a gap of about 43,000.¹

The change since then is dramatic. In roughly five years, the Republican advantage grew from about 43,000 to nearly 1.5 million. Democrats lost over a million registrations in that span, dropping from above 5 million to just over 4 million, while Republican rolls grew by about 300,000. Part of the Democratic decline reflects voters switching parties or re-registering as NPA, and part reflects post-election voter roll maintenance that removes inactive registrants.

Minor Parties and Unaffiliated Voters

Florida recognizes fifteen minor political parties, from long-established organizations like the Libertarian Party and the Green Party to newer ones such as the Florida Forward Party and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.³ Their combined share of the electorate remains small at 3.5%, but growth has been sharp: minor-party registrations climbed from 65,526 in 2017 to 471,323 in 2026, more than a sevenfold increase.¹

Some of that growth appears to come at the expense of the NPA category, which actually shrank slightly over the same period, from 3,449,005 in 2017 to 3,334,336 in 2026. The combined non-major-party count still grew from about 3.5 million to 3.8 million, so the shift looks less like people leaving partisan politics and more like people choosing a specific minor party rather than checking “none.”

What NPA Registration Means for Voting

The NPA label matters in practice because Florida runs a closed primary. State law says a qualified primary voter is entitled to vote the ballot of their registered party “and no other.”⁴ If you’re registered NPA or with a minor party, you don’t get a partisan primary ballot. With more than 3.8 million voters currently outside the two major parties, over a quarter of Florida’s electorate sits out most primaries.

There is one exception. When every candidate for an office belongs to the same party and no write-in candidates have qualified, that primary becomes a universal primary contest open to all registered voters regardless of party. These situations arise mostly in heavily one-party districts.

County-Level Patterns

Registration totals vary widely across Florida’s 67 counties. The Panhandle is heavily Republican. Bay County Republicans outnumber Democrats more than three to one (73,357 to 23,517), and Walton County runs about five to one Republican. That dominance carries across most of northwest and north-central Florida.⁵

Democratic strength concentrates along the southeast Atlantic coast. Broward County has 464,251 Democrats to 267,758 Republicans, making it the most Democratic-leaning large county. Palm Beach also leans Democratic, though by less. Duval County (Jacksonville) is nearly split, with Democrats holding an edge of about 4,800 registrations.⁵

Miami-Dade, the state’s most populous county, has flipped. Republicans now lead with 450,677 registrations to 407,346 Democrats, with 389,692 NPA voters holding potential swing weight. The I-4 corridor through Central Florida — Orange, Hillsborough, Osceola and neighboring counties — carries high NPA shares and large numbers of newer residents, making totals there the most volatile from cycle to cycle.

Registration and Party-Change Deadlines

Florida closes its registration books 29 days before each election. Applications submitted after that cutoff aren’t valid for the upcoming election, though they will be processed for future ones. The same 29-day deadline applies if you want to change your party affiliation. For a primary election specifically, if you miss the 29-day window, your new party won’t take effect until after that primary is over. So an NPA voter who wants a Republican or Democratic primary ballot must switch at least 29 days before the primary date. Florida does not offer same-day registration.⁶

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Florida Department of State. Voter Registration – By Party Affiliation
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Florida Department of State. Search Results for Voter Registration
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Florida Department of State. Political Parties – Division of Elections
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Florida House of Representatives. Florida Statutes 0101.021 – Elector to Vote the Primary Ballot of the Political Party in Which He or She Is Registered
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Florida Department of State. Voter Registration – By County and Party
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Online Sunshine – The Florida Legislature. Florida Statutes 97.055 – Registration Books; When Closed for an Election