JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Despite there being more registered Democrats in Duval County than Republicans, more votes were cast for Donald Trump than Kamala Harris in the county in the 2024 Presidential Election.
With 97% of votes counted, Trump has 50.4% of the vote with 233,604 votes. Harris gained 48.5% of the votes in Duval County with 224,720. Just prior to Election Day, there were 248,130 registered Democrat voters vs 237,231 Republicans in Duval County.
Florida was called for Trump at 8 p.m. The former president gained 6 million statewide votes vs. Harris' 4.6 million.
In 2016, Trump captured about 6,000 more votes in Duval than Hilary Clinton. In 2012, Mitt Romney won Duval County by about 15,000 votes.
Duval County is a historically red county -- until 2020, it had not chosen a Democratic president since Jimmy Carter in 1976. But in 2020, Duval chose Joe Biden by a margin of 51.2% to 47.2%. In May of 2023, the county elected Democrat Donna Deegan to serve as its first female mayor. Democratic Party Gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum won the county by 16,710 votes in 2018.
