Florida 18th Congressional District, Florida: Old Confederacy district. In 2024, voted R+28%. Democratic peak: D+85 in 1884.
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+28MIT Election Lab
- Political archetype
- Old ConfederacyAkashic typology
- Population
- 889,5602024 5-year
- Median household income
- $63,3152024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 57.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 13.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 29.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+85 in 1884MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+58 in 1972MIT Election Lab
Constituent county margins for Congressional District 18, FLOne cell per constituent county, colored by 2024 presidential margin from deep red (Republican) through neutral to deep blue (Democratic), ordered bluest first.
R+60D+60
One cell per constituent county. Ordered by 2024 D-vs-R margin (bluest first). Hover for county-level numbers.
38 presidential elections
| Year | Won | Margin | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | 138,109 | 244,303 | 385,423 | ||
| R | 149,392 | 227,863 | 380,841 | ||
| R | 123,911 | 185,894 | 319,648 | ||
| R | 124,685 | 156,630 | 284,085 | ||
| R | 126,773 | 154,851 | 284,166 | ||
| R | 100,471 | 150,364 | 252,393 | ||
| R | 88,468 | 112,016 | 204,542 | ||
| R | 82,697 | 84,643 | 188,666 | ||
| R | 63,867 | 80,724 | 182,663 | ||
| R | 48,142 | 96,003 | 145,057 | ||
| R | 44,227 | 102,717 | 146,967 | ||
| R | 52,838 | 71,557 | 128,488 | ||
| D | 56,404 | 51,384 | 109,415 | ||
| R | 18,413 | 70,102 | 88,803 | ||
| O | 18,190 | 30,737 | 85,382 | ||
| R | 33,587 | 40,525 | 74,112 | ||
| R | 27,686 | 34,613 | 62,298 | ||
| R | 22,164 | 26,687 | 48,851 | ||
| D | 24,131 | 23,953 | 48,084 | ||
| D | 16,384 | 9,370 | 29,878 | ||
| D | 18,269 | 6,754 | 25,023 | ||
| D | 22,731 | 7,036 | 29,767 | ||
| D | 15,679 | 6,132 | 21,812 | ||
| D | 14,998 | 5,031 | 20,029 | ||
| R | 6,634 | 11,976 | 19,040 | ||
| D | 4,804 | 2,107 | 7,777 | ||
| D | 5,770 | 2,517 | 8,820 | ||
| D | 3,750 | 833 | 5,197 | ||
| D | 2,025 | 192 | 2,909 | ||
| D | 1,962 | 469 | 2,830 | ||
| D | 1,395 | 285 | 1,843 | ||
| D | 762 | 103 | 957 | ||
| D | 895 | 216 | 1,175 | ||
| D | 674 | 0 | 823 | ||
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| D | 585 | 48 | 633 | ||
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Demographics
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
American
9.7%
English
8.8%
German
8.7%
Irish
7.2%
Italian
3.7%
French
1.6%
Polish
1.1%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so these shares can total more than 100%. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
Age distribution by sex
Median age: 41.5 in this county, 39.1 nationally
Male
Age
Female
85+
75–84
65–74
55–64
45–54
35–44
25–34
18–24
5–17
<5
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
Median household income
2024 inflation-adjusted dollars
$63,315
Congressional District 18 ranks near the middle of US counties.
Congressional District 18$63,315
Florida$74,568
United States$80,734
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
Poverty rate
All persons below federal poverty line
15.8%
Children face moderate poverty.
Children under 1822.1%
Working age (18–64)14.3%
Seniors (65+)12.5%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
72.2%
speak English only
Spanish23.6%
Other Indo-European2.9%
Asian & Pacific Islander0.8%
Other languages0.5%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 56.5% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.
Florida 18th Congressional District sits in the Gulf South and peninsula. For nearly a century after Reconstruction, the district voted Democratic — not because of New Deal politics, but because of the long memory of the Civil War. The Democratic party of the Solid South was the party of segregation, and in Florida 18th Congressional District as throughout the former Confederacy, Republican identification was politically untenable until the second half of the twentieth century.
The shift began with civil rights. 1980 marked the realignment in Florida 18th Congressional District, by a fifteen points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at fifty-eight points in 1972. The 2024 margin was twenty-eight points.
The political shift has tracked, in Florida 18th Congressional District, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 58% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $63,315, and a 16% poverty rate describe the demographic context.
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Frequently asked questions
How did Congressional District 18, Florida vote in 2024?
In 2024, Congressional District 18, Florida voted Republican by 27.6 points (R+28), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 385,423 votes cast, 138,109 went Democratic and 244,303 went Republican.
What is Congressional District 18, Florida's political archetype?
Akashic classifies Congressional District 18, Florida as a "Old Confederacy" district based on its long-arc presidential voting pattern. Across 38 elections in the dataset, the district has voted Democratic 17 times, Republican 17 times, and other 1 times.
When did Congressional District 18, Florida last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Congressional District 18, Florida voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Congressional District 18, Florida?
Congressional District 18, Florida has a population of 889,560 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Congressional District 18, Florida?
Median household income in Congressional District 18, Florida is $63,315 — below the national median of $80,734. The Florida state median is $74,568.
What is the political history of Congressional District 18, Florida?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Congressional District 18, Florida from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 17 went Democratic and 17 went Republican. The district's archetype — "Old Confederacy" — captures the overall trajectory of that voting record.