The politics of Seminole County, Florida are diverse and ever-changing. Seminole County is a part of the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is politically competitive. The county is represented in the United States Congress by Democrat Stephanie Murphy, who serves on the House Financial Services Committee. The Florida Senate has Republican Jason Brodeur representing District 9 and Democratic Linda Stewart representing District 13. In the Florida House of Representatives, Seminole County is represented by Republican Scott Plakon in District 29 and Democrat Joy Goff-Marcil in District 30. Additionally, five members serve as commissioners for Seminole County with Republican Lee Constantine currently serving as Chairman. All five members are Republicans. Seminole County voters also have an opportunity to participate in a variety of local elections including school board and local measures.
The political climate in Seminole County, FL is leaning liberal.
In Seminole County, FL 50.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 47.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Seminole county flipped Democratic, 50.7% to 47.9%.
Seminole county flipped Democratic after voting Republican in the previous five Presidential elections.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Seminole County, FL is leaning liberal.
Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford Metro Area is somewhat liberal.
Florida is leaning conservative.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Seminole, Florida: R R r r r d
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D for the Democrat and I for the Independent. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Seminole County, FL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 14,448 contributions totaling $1,486,331 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $103 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 5,805 contributions totaling $2,771,485 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $477 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)