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Social Explorer Election Maps: Florida in Focus

THURSDAY, NOV 03, 2016

Social Explorer users have access to a century of election data maps from Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Leading up to Election Day, we are focusing on different map features. (For an overview, get started with our introductory election maps post.)

With less than one week until Election Day, we take a look at Florida, a competitive (and sometimes controversial) state in recent presidential elections.

The following pair of maps focuses on the 2000 and 2012 presidential election votes. Explore vote counts state by state or county by county.

According to the 2000 Census and 2012 American Community Survey, Florida grew by 20.9 percent during this period–nearly twice the rate of the U.S. as a whole (11.5 percent). The number of presidential election voters in Broward, where the infamous hanging chads controversy took place during the 2000 election, increased from 575,239 to 756,422, representing 31.5 percent growth. Neighboring Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties also grew substantially in terms of presidential election voters (up by 38.7 percent and 40.4 percent, respectively). Combined, these three counties accounted for nearly 12 percent of the state's 2012 population.

The candidates and the media have been talking mucho about the Hispanic vote. Between 2000 and today, Florida's Hispanic population has grown from one in six people to nearly one in four people (16.8 percent to 23.3 percent, according to the 2010-14 American Community Survey), and it continues to rise. All three counties we are focusing on also experienced increases in Hispanic residents, as shown on the following map.

As Florida's overall Hispanic population grew during this period, so did its diversity. The Cuban population increased from 833,120 to 1,331,893 and both the Puerto Rican and Mexican populations nearly doubled (from 482,027 to 936,290 and 363,925 to 646,081, respectively). See the growth patterns in the following chart:

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Examine more election histories and socioeconomic factors in Florida and other battleground states with Social Explorer. For a how-to on examining related socioeconomic factors, check out our recent blog post exploring income and age statistics.

Find out more about Social Explorer election maps through our other how-to blog posts and by watching our video with Social Explorer's Andrew Beveridge.

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