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Florida State Senate elections, 2024
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| Primary | August 20, 2024 |
| General | November 5, 2024 |
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Elections for the Florida State Senate took place in 2024. The general election was on November 5, 2024. The primary was August 20, 2024. The filing deadline was June 14, 2024.
Following the election, Republicans maintained a 28-12 veto-proof majority. Republicans had a two-thirds veto-proof majority in both chambers before the election. Republicans needed to lose fewer than two Senate seats and fewer than five House seats to maintain their two-thirds veto-proof majority in both chambers. Democrats needed to win at least two Senate seats or at least five House seats to break the Republican legislative veto-proof majority. Republicans maintained an 85-35 veto-proof majority in the House as well.
The Florida State Senate was one of 85 state legislative chambers with elections in 2024. There are 99 chambers throughout the country.
To learn more about battleground primaries, click here.
Party control
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| Party | As of November 5, 2024 | After November 6, 2024 | |
| Democratic Party | 11 | 12 | |
| Republican Party | 28 | 28 | |
| Vacancy | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 40 | 40 | |
Candidates
General election
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Vernon Lee Parker (No Party Affiliation) (Write-in) |
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The general election was canceled and this candidate was elected:  Geraldine Thompson (i) |
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The general election was canceled and this candidate was elected: Carlos Guillermo Smith |
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John Houman (No Party Affiliation) |
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Primary
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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CJ Blancett Did not make the ballot: |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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Voting information
- See also: Voting in Florida
General election race ratings
The table below displays race ratings for each race in this chamber from CNalysis.
Battleground primaries
Ballotpedia identified one Senate battleground primary that could have affected the results of the general election or the ideological makeup of the legislature. Ahead of the June 2024 primaries, AP's Robert Yoon said, "Democrats and Republicans each will hold five contested state Senate primaries. Thirty-five state House primaries are contested. Half of Florida’s 40 state Senate seats and all 120 state House seats are up for election. Republicans hold more than 2-to-1 majorities in both chambers."[1] Of the five contested Senate Republican primaries, Ballotpedia identified the Senate District 21 Republican primary as a battleground. To learn more about the Florida House battleground primaries, click here.
Florida Senate District 21 Republican primary
- See also: Florida State Senate District 21
Incumbent Rep. Ed Hooper (R) defeated John Siamas (R) in the Republican primary for Florida Senate District 21 85.1%-14.9%. CNalysis rated Senate District 21 as Solid Republican.[2]
According to the Tampa Bay Times' Lawrence Mower, "The former firefighter, 76, was first elected to the Senate in 2018 and is running for his final four-year term. He regularly runs transportation bills in the Legislature and is known as one of the more independent voices in his party...Siamas, 44, is a U.S. Navy veteran and part-time tax accountant who said he’s campaigning on rooting out corruption in homeowners associations and 'modernizing the education system.'"[3]
While in the Senate, Hooper sponsored legislation establishing punishments for distributing fentanyl, misdemeanors for threatening first responders, and increasing awareness for opioid use and overdoses. Before serving in the Senate, Hooper served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2006-2014.[4]
Siamass said his priorities were lowering insurance costs, ending corruption in homeowners associations, property tax credits for association dues, blockchain and cryptocurrency, and school technology as his top priorities. Siamas said, "I am committed to donating my entire salary to a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping homeowners with their legal fees in lawsuits against corrupt HOA Board members."[5]
Campaign finance
- See also: Campaign finance
The section and tables below contain data from financial reports submitted to state agencies. Districts and elections are grouped in sections of 10. To view data for a district, click on the appropriate bar below to expand it. The data is gathered and made available by Transparency USA.
Incumbents who were not re-elected
Incumbents defeated in general elections
No incumbents lost in general elections. This was less than the average of 1.0 incumbent defeats per cycle from 2010 to 2022.
Incumbents defeated in primaries
No incumbents lost in primaries. The average number incumbents who lost in primaries from 2010-2022 was 0.1.
Retiring incumbents
Eight incumbents did not file for re-election in 2024.[6] The average number of retirements each election cycle from 2010 to 2022 was 10. Those incumbents were:
Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on state legislative primary election competitiveness in Florida. These totals include data from all regularly-scheduled House and Senate elections. For more information about Ballotpedia's competitiveness analysis of state legislative elections, please click here.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all state legislative districts up for election in Florida in 2024. Information below was calculated on June 26, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Florida had 46 contested state legislative primaries in 2024, a decrease of 43% from the preceding cycle.
See also
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Footnotes
- ↑ Associated Press, "AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Florida's state primaries," August 16, 2024
- ↑ CNalysis, "Florida," accessed October 20, 2024
- ↑ Tampa Bay Times, "Democrats field candidates in every Florida legislative race. Does it matter?" June 14, 2024
- ↑ Vote Smart, "Ed Hooper's Biography," accessed October 20, 2024
- ↑ Florida Politics, "Ed Hooper on track for easy win in SD 21 GOP Primary," August 19, 2024
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines an incumbent as retiring if the incumbent did not file for office or filed for office but withdrew, was disqualified, or otherwise left a race in a manner other than losing the primary, primary runoff, or convention. If an incumbent runs as a write-in candidate, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring. If an incumbent runs in the same chamber for a different seat, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring.
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines a seat as open if the incumbent did not file to run for re-election or filed but withdrew and did not appear on any ballot for his or her seat. If the incumbent withdrew from or did not participate in the primary but later chose to seek re-election to his or her seat as a third party or independent candidate, the seat would not be counted as open. If the incumbent retired or ran for a different seat in the same chamber, his or her original seat would be counted as open unless another incumbent from the same chamber filed to run for that seat, in which case it would not be counted as open due to the presence of an incumbent.
- ↑ ABC 33/40, "Abortion, marijuana ballot measures may boost Florida voter turnout" accessed June 17, 2024
- ↑ USA Today, "Abortion, marijuana measures raise hope for Democrats in Trump's home state" accessed June 17, 2024
- ↑ WCJB, "Florida Democrats optimistic about election with abortion measure on November ballot" accessed June 17, 2024
- ↑ The New York Times, "Democrats See Glimmers of Hope in Florida. Are They Seeing Things?" accessed June 17, 2024
- ↑ NOTUS, "Republicans Think Abortion Rights Supporters Will Vote for Them Too" accessed June 21, 2024
- ↑ Floridians Protecting Freedom, "Home," accessed May 17, 2023
- ↑ Florida Voice for the Unborn, "Home," accessed December 21, 2023
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Florida Statutes, "Title IX, Chapter 97, Section 012," accessed March 6, 2025 Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ Florida Statutes, "Title IX, Chapter 99, Section 092," accessed March 6, 2025
- ↑ Florida Statutes, "Title IX, Chapter 99, Section 095," accessed March 6, 2025
- ↑ Florida Statutes, "Title IX, Chapter 99, Section 061," accessed March 6, 2025
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedflstatute99.021 - ↑ Florida Division of Elections, "Candidate Qualifying Information," accessed December 16, 2103
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "2024 Legislator Compensation," August 21, 2024
- ↑ Florida Constitution, "Article III, Section 15(d)," accessed November 22, 2016
