Florida Early Voting Closes With 5.27 Million Ballots Back Through November 1
The compiled county-by-county count puts Florida at 5,272,601 ballots returned through Sunday — 10% ahead of the same point in 2022 — with registered Republicans holding a roughly 150,000-ballot edge over registered Democrats heading into Election Day.
WEST PALM BEACH — Florida's early voting closed Sunday with 5,272,601 ballots returned through Nov. 1, according to the compiled count from state and county election offices tracked by civicAPI — up 113,064 on the final day and 10% ahead of the same point in the 2022 midterms. The state's own Division of Elections file, which runs through Oct. 31, counted 5,159,537 ballots in its Sunday-morning compilation and takes over again once it catches up to the final day.
By registration, Republicans had cast 2,136,362 of the ballots in the through-Nov. 1 compilation and Democrats 1,986,806, with Democratic ballots running 13% ahead of their 2022 pace and Republican ballots 3% ahead. Mail ballots accounted for 1,927,623 returns (36.6%) and in-person early voting for 3,344,978 (63.4%). Party registration shows who has cast a ballot, not how anyone voted — Election Day votes, which are not split this way in advance, will decide every race.
For Palm Beach County voters who have not voted, Sunday's close ends the any-site early option: there is no early voting on Monday, mail ballots must reach the county supervisor of elections by 7 p.m. on Election Day — 5 p.m. at branch offices — and on Tuesday, Nov. 3, voters cast ballots only at their assigned precinct, with polls open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The early total already equals 68% of all votes cast for U.S. Senate in Florida in the whole of 2022.
