Editing Escambia County, Florida (section)

==Politics==

===Voter registration===
According to the secretary of state's office, Republicans constitute a plurality of registered voters in Escambia County.

{| class=wikitable
! colspan = 6 | Escambia County voter registration & party enrollment as of September 30, 2022<ref>{{cite web |title=Voter Registration - By County and Party |url=https://dos.myflorida.com/elections/data-statistics/voter-registration-statistics/voter-registration-reports/voter-registration-by-county-and-party/ |access-date=November 22, 2022}}</ref>
|-
! colspan = 2 | Political party
! Total voters
! Percentage
|-
| {{party color cell|Republican Party (United States)}}
| [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 98,987
| style="text-align:center;"| 44.25%
|-
| {{party color cell|Democratic Party (United States)}}
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 71,746
| style="text-align:center;"| 32.07%
|-
| {{party color cell|Independent Party (United States)}}
| No party affiliation 
| style="text-align:center;"| 48,734
| style="text-align:center;"| 21.78%
|-
| {{party color cell|Independent Party (United States)}}
| Minor parties 
| style="text-align:center;"| 4,252
| style="text-align:center;"| 1.90%
|-
! colspan = 2 | Total
! style="text-align:center;"| 223,719
! style="text-align:center;"| 100.00%
|}

===Statewide elections===
Escambia County is very conservative for an urban county. Before 1994, the area traditionally voted Democratic in local elections and sent Democrats to the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]] and the state legislature, like most of the Western Panhandle. This was particularly the case in the decades of the 20th century when most African Americans were [[Disfranchisement after Reconstruction era|disenfranchised]] by the state constitution until the federal Voting Rights Act passed.

In 1994 incumbent representative [[Earl Hutto]] declined to run for reelection. That year, Republican [[Joe Scarborough]] was elected to the House of Representatives.

Voters of the county have not supported a Democratic presidential candidate since [[John F. Kennedy]] in 1960. In 1964, a majority of the county's voters supported Republican nominee [[Barry Goldwater]]. In 1968, third-party candidate [[George Wallace]] won Escambia County with 54% of the vote. In 1972, Republican [[Richard Nixon]] received 80% of the vote. Since 1972, Republican nominees in every presidential election have won an absolute majority in Escambia County, but in recent years, the Democratic Party has increased its share of the presidential vote. In 2020, [[Joe Biden]] was the first Democratic presidential nominee to win over 40% of the county's vote since [[Jimmy Carter]] in 1976. Growth in the Pensacola suburbs as well as the sizable black population has made Escambia County the least Republican-leaning of the Western Panhandle counties. In the [[2025 Florida's 1st congressional district special election|2025 1st district special election]] [[Gay Valimont]] won it by 3 points.

{{PresHead|place=Escambia County, Florida|whig=no|source1=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|last=Leip|first=David|website=uselectionatlas.org|access-date=June 14, 2018}}</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2020|Republican|96,674|70,929|3,253|Florida}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|88,808|57,461|7,903|Florida}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|88,711|58,185|2,071|Florida}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|91,411|61,572|1,891|Florida}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|93,566|48,329|1,383|Florida}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|73,171|40,990|2,695|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|60,997|37,838|9,090|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|52,868|32,045|20,308|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|64,959|29,977|524|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|66,715|26,812|22|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|51,794|33,513|3,252|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|41,471|38,279|965|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|56,071|14,078|315|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1968|American Independent|15,089|16,281|37,000|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|32,414|25,371|0|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|17,925|28,288|0|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1956|Democratic|13,227|22,320|0|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1952|Democratic|12,176|20,495|0|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|3,267|13,982|4,907|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|3,191|16,240|0|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|2,249|16,201|0|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|1,567|9,138|0|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|1,658|6,182|0|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|4,443|3,772|118|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1924|Democratic|1,274|2,290|778|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1920|Democratic|1,227|3,485|633|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|416|2,183|166|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|72|1,593|401|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1908|Democratic|718|1,887|751|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1904|Democratic|497|1,573|89|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1900|Democratic|432|1,435|394|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1896|Democratic|233|1,285|150|Florida}}
{{PresFoot|1892|Democratic|0|2,616|127|Florida}}

{| class="wikitable"  style="float:left; font-size:95%;"
|+ '''Gubernatorial Election Results'''
|- style="background:lightgrey;"
! Year
! [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
! [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
! [[Third Party (United States)|Third parties]]
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|[[Florida gubernatorial election, 2022|2022]]
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|'''64.46%''' ''74,608''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|34.63% ''40,076''
| style="text-align:center;"|0.91% ''1,053''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|[[Florida gubernatorial election, 2018|2018]]
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|'''57.76%''' ''74,719''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|40.84% ''52,835''
| style="text-align:center;"|1.40% ''1,812''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|[[Florida gubernatorial election, 2014|2014]]
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|'''61.99%''' ''60,719''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|34.13% ''33,434''
| style="text-align:center;"|3.88% ''3,798''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|[[Florida gubernatorial election, 2010|2010]]
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|'''56.93%''' ''54,607''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|38.44% ''36,873''
| style="text-align:center;"|4.63% ''4,436''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|[[Florida gubernatorial election, 2006|2006]]
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|'''59.09%''' ''51,195''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|38.98% ''33,777''
| style="text-align:center;"|1.93% ''1,674''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|[[Florida gubernatorial election, 2002|2002]]
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|'''64.92%''' ''60,095''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|34.40% ''31,844''
| style="text-align:center;"|0.68% ''633''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|[[Florida gubernatorial election, 1998|1998]]
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|'''66.83%''' ''50,325''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|33.14% ''24,956''
| style="text-align:center;"|0.03% ''23''      
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|[[Florida gubernatorial election, 1994|1994]]
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|'''57.68%''' ''45,261''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|42.32% ''33,210''
| style="text-align:center;"|0.00% ''1''    
|}
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