Political_party_strength_in_Florida
The following tables indicate party affiliation in the U.S. state of Florida for the individual elected offices of:
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As well as the following historical offices that were elected from 1889 to 2005:
- Secretary of State
- Comptroller
- Treasurer/Insurance Commissioner/Fire Marshal
- Commissioner of Education (called the Superintendent of Public Instruction before 1969)
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- State Senate
- State House of Representatives
- State delegation to the U.S. Senate (individually)
- State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes. For the Civil War years, the table indicates the state's delegation to the Confederate Congress, in lieu of the U.S. Congress.
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- Served in the Congress of the Confederate States.
- Resigned from office to go into hiding from approaching Union troops.
- Appointed Provisional Governor by President Andrew Johnson following the Civil War.
- Most sources state Walker was a Democrat; the state archives say he was "Conservative". He was formerly a Whig, Know Nothing, and Constitutional Unionist, and he ran in the 1868 election as an "Independent Republican."[1][2]
- Resigned in order to accept appointment to the Florida Supreme Court.
- Due to additional efforts to satisfy "one man, one vote"-style redistricting failing, the 1966 midterms were thrown out by a court, and a redistricting by the judiciary was conducted with new elections thereafter. The original results for the Senate yielded a 37-11 Democratic majority, and the original results for the House yielded a 91-26 Democratic majority.
- First lieutenant governor under the state constitution of 1968 and the state's first lieutenant governor since 1889. Appointed by Governor Claude R. Kirk Jr.
- Resigned to take elected seat in the United States Senate.
- Republican Ander Crenshaw won a special election to a vacant seat, flipping the seat from the Democrats to the Republicans.
- Resigned to take a job in the administration at Florida Atlantic University.
- In district 35, Democrat Tom Keen won a special election on January 16 to replace Republican Fred Hawkins, who had resigned.
- "David Shelby Walker". State Library and Archives of Florida. Archived from the original on January 23, 2011. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
- Dubin, Michael J. (10 January 2014). United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1861-1911. ISBN 9780786456468. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
- "Florida Attorney General - Florida Attorneys General (1845 - )". myfloridalegal.com. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- "Florida Governors - Florida Department of State". dos.myflorida.com. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- "Florida Attorney General - Florida Attorneys General (1845 - )". myfloridalegal.com. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- "Florida Governors - Florida Department of State". dos.myflorida.com. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- "Florida Attorney General - Florida Attorneys General (1845 - )". myfloridalegal.com. Retrieved 2022-11-24.