Editing Duval County, Florida (section)

===Statewide and national elections===
Duval County is somewhat conservative for an urban county, and it began moving away from the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] sooner than the majority of Florida counties. Despite the small Democratic plurality in registration, the county's Democrats are nowhere near as liberal as their counterparts in other large Florida counties, such as [[Broward County, Florida|Broward]] and [[Orange County, Florida|Orange]]. The county has only supported a Democrat for president three times since 1952, in [[1960 United States presidential election in Florida|1960]], [[1976 United States presidential election in Florida|1976]], and [[2020 United States presidential election in Florida|2020]].

However, the Republican edge in Duval has lessened somewhat in recent years. It swung from a 16-point win for [[George W. Bush]] in 2004 to only a three-point win for [[John McCain]] in 2008. [[Mitt Romney]] won an equally narrow margin in 2012 and in 2016, [[Donald Trump]] only won the county by fewer than 6,000 votes even as he narrowly carried Florida. In 2020, [[Joe Biden]], despite losing statewide, broke the 44-year Democratic drought in Duval County, winning by less than four points. In 2024, the county reverted back to the GOP and Trump won it by less than 2 points.

In 2018, [[Andrew Gillum]], despite losing the election, won Duval by four points, the first time a Democrat had won the county in a gubernatorial election since [[Steve Pajcic]]'s losing bid in 1986. Four years later, however, Duval rebounded to vote for [[Ron DeSantis]] by over 10 points. In the Senate elections, [[Bill Nelson]] only failed to carry the county in his first bid in 2000, and [[Lawton Chiles]] and [[Bob Graham]] carried the county in all three of their respective bids. In 2022, [[Ron DeSantis]] won the county in his reelection bid by 12 points.

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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|236,285|229,365|7,683|Florida}}
{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|233,762|252,556|7,843|Florida}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|211,672|205,704|19,197|Florida}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|211,615|196,737|4,381|Florida}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|210,537|202,618|3,538|Florida}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|220,190|158,610|2,261|Florida}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|152,460|108,039|4,682|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|126,959|112,328|14,836|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|123,631|92,098|34,197|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|128,081|74,894|1,004|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|128,724|77,488|37|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|98,664|90,466|6,424|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|74,997|105,912|1,652|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|122,154|46,530|520|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1968|American Independent|51,585|54,834|60,559|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|81,116|79,365|0|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|59,073|70,091|0|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|53,481|53,127|0|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1952|Democratic|50,346|53,949|0|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|15,379|28,567|15,749|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|12,220|36,867|0|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|9,177|41,003|0|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|5,368|25,989|0|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|6,096|19,038|0|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|16,919|9,316|454|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1924|Democratic|3,291|5,908|2,177|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1920|Democratic|6,628|13,650|979|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|1,339|5,456|1,162|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|243|3,514|912|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1908|Democratic|641|2,381|540|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1904|Democratic|671|2,011|381|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1900|Democratic|773|1,857|158|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1896|Democratic|1,462|1,903|329|Florida}}
{{PresFoot|1892|Democratic|0|1,442|73|Florida}}

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|+ Gubernatorial election results
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! Year
! [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
! [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
! [[Third Party (United States)|Third parties]]
|-
| align="center" bgcolor="#fff3f3" |[[2022 Florida gubernatorial election|2022]]
| align="center" bgcolor="#fff3f3" |'''55.44%''' ''182,569''
| align="center" bgcolor="#f0f0ff" |43.68% ''143,837''
| align="center" |0.88% 2,913
|-
| align="center" bgcolor="#f0f0ff" |[[2018 Florida gubernatorial election|2018]]
| align="center" bgcolor="#fff3f3" |47.35% ''179,869''
| align="center" bgcolor="#f0f0ff" |'''51.74%''' ''196,537''
| align="center" |0.90% 3,431
|-
| align="center" bgcolor="#fff3f3" |[[2014 Florida gubernatorial election|2014]]
| align="center" bgcolor="#fff3f3" |'''54.22%''' ''146,407''
| align="center" bgcolor="#f0f0ff" |41.49% ''112,026''
| align="center" |4.29% ''11,600''
|-
| align="center" bgcolor="#fff3f3" |[[2010 Florida gubernatorial election|2010]]
| align="center" bgcolor="#fff3f3" |'''51.60%''' ''135,074''
| align="center" bgcolor="#f0f0ff" |45.88% ''120,097''
| align="center" |2.52% ''6,614''
|-
| align="center" bgcolor="#fff3f3" |[[2006 Florida gubernatorial election|2006]]
| align="center" bgcolor="#fff3f3" |'''58.86%''' ''132,607''
| align="center" bgcolor="#f0f0ff" |38.93% ''87,718''
| align="center" |2.21% ''4,972''
|-
| align="center" bgcolor="#fff3f3" |[[2002 Florida gubernatorial election|2002]]
| align="center" bgcolor="#fff3f3" |'''61.35%''' ''148,923''
| align="center" bgcolor="#f0f0ff" |38.01% ''92,263''
| align="center" |0.64% ''1,556''
|-
| align="center" bgcolor="#fff3f3" |[[1998 Florida gubernatorial election|1998]]
| align="center" bgcolor="#fff3f3" |'''60.15%''' ''111,716''
| align="center" bgcolor="#f0f0ff" |39.85% ''74,016''
| align="center" |0.00% ''4''
|-
| align="center" bgcolor="#fff3f3" |[[1994 Florida gubernatorial election|1994]]
| align="center" bgcolor="#fff3f3" |'''57.22%''' ''108,900''
| align="center" bgcolor="#f0f0ff" |42.53% ''80,945''
| align="center" |0.25% ''471''
|}
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