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Elections were held inFlorida on Tuesday, November 2, 2010.Primary elections were held on August 24, 2010.
Florida had 4.6 million Democrats and 4 million Republicans. The latter outpolled Democrats among the 2.4 million independent voters and attracted conservative Democrats in cross-party voting. While running behind Republicans generally, the Democrats ran strongly in every urban area of the state. They lost by lopsided margins in the farPanhandle, Southwest Florida and theSpace Coast.[1]
Main contenders for Florida's open Senate seat include RepublicanMarco Rubio, DemocratKendrick Meek, and independentCharlie Crist, along with many other third-party and independent candidates.
All twenty-five of Florida's seats in theUnited States House of Representatives are up for election in 2010.
Incumbent governorCharlie Crist did not run for re-election, choosing instead to run for election as senator (initially as a Republican, then later as an independent). In Florida, the governor and lieutenant governor run as a ticket.
RepublicanRick Scott and DemocratAlex Sink won their respective party's primaries; Scott named Jennifer Carroll as his lieutenant-governor running mate while Sink named Rod Smith.
Scott would go on to win the general election by plurality, thus holding the seat for the GOP.
Approximately one-half of the forty seats of theFlorida Senate were up for election in 2010.
All 120 seats in theFlorida House of Representatives are up for election in 2010.
RepublicanPam Bondi, DemocratDan Gelber and independentJim Lewis ran for Florida Attorney General, with Bondi winning the election.
The other state-level offices within theFlorida Cabinet up for election were the chief financial officer and the commissioner of agriculture and consumer services. The Republican candidates (Jeff Atwater andAdam Putnam, respectively) won their elections.
Multiple judicial positions will be up for election in 2010, including four justices of theSupreme Court of Florida.
Seven measures have been certified for the 2010 ballot.
Many elections for county offices were also held on November 2, 2010.
