The 2016 United States Senate election in Florida was held November 8, 2016 to elect a member of the

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to represent the State of

Florida Florida ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders the Gulf of Mexico to the west, Alabama to the northwest, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the north, the Atlantic ...

, concurrently with the

2016 U.S. presidential election Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 2016. The Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and ...

, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and

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to the

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and various

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and

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. The primary elections for both the Republicans and Democrats took place on August 30, 2016. Incumbent Republican Senator

Marco Rubio Marco Antonio Rubio (; born May 28, 1971) is an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat serving since 2025 as the 72nd United States Secretary of State, United States secretary of state. A member of the Republican Party (United States) , Rep ...

ran for another term but faced well-funded Republican primary opposition after initially announcing he would not seek re-election to his Senate seat. He had openly considered whether to seek re-election or run for president in 2016. He stated in April 2014 that he would not run for both the Senate and president in 2016, as Florida law prohibits a candidate from simultaneously appearing twice on a ballot, but did not rule out running for either office. However, in April 2015, Rubio announced that he was running for President and would not seek re-election. Rubio had initially said he would not run for re-election to the Senate even if he dropped out of the GOP presidential primary before he would have to qualify for the 2016 Senate primary ballot, for which the filing deadline was June 24, 2016. On June 13, 2016, despite his previous statements that he would not run for re-election to his Senate seat, Rubio "seemed to open the door to running for re-election," citing the previous day's mass shooting in Orlando and how "it really gives you pause, to think a little bit about your service to your country and where you can be most useful to your country." On June 22, 2016, Rubio announced that he would seek re-election to the Senate, reversing his pledge not to run. On August 30, the Republican Party nominated Marco Rubio, and the Democratic Party nominated Representative Patrick Murphy. Rubio won with the largest raw vote total in Florida history (until Donald Trump broke the record in 2020), taking a greater percentage of the popular vote than Republican presidential nominee

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, who won the state in the election. He is the first Republican

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from Florida since

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, and only the second with

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, to be reelected to a second term. Also, with

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's victory in

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, this marks the first time that Republicans have won one of Florida's Senate seats three times in a row ( Mack succeeded

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, a Democrat, and was succeeded by another Democrat,

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). Marco Rubio won 48% of the Hispanic vote and 17% of the African American vote during this election, at the time considered an exceptional number for a Republican during a presidential year. Additionally, Rubio's raw vote total was the highest vote total for any Republican Senate candidate up until

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Senator John Cornyn broke it in

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Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

* Carlos Beruff, real estate developer and chair of the Florida Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding * Ernie Rivera, businessman *

, incumbent U.S. Senator * Dwight Young,

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Sheriff's deputy

Withdrawn

Ron DeSantis Ronald Dion DeSantis (; born September 14, 1978) is an American politician, attorney, and former United States Navy, naval officer serving as the 46th List of governors of Florida, governor of Florida since 2019. A member of the Republican Pa ...

, U.S. Representative (ran for

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) * Mary Elisabeth Godwin, pastor *

David Jolly David Wilson Jolly (born October 31, 1972) is an American politician, attorney, and former lobbyist who served as the U.S. representative for Florida's 13th congressional district from 2014 to 2017 as a Republican. After leaving office, Jolly ...

, U.S. Representative (ran for

) *

Carlos Lopez-Cantera Carlos Lopez-Cantera (born December 29, 1973) is an American politician who served as the 19th lieutenant governor of Florida from 2014 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Lopez-Cantera represented the 113th district in the Florida House ...

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* Todd Wilcox, businessman and former CIA case officer

Declined

Jeff Atwater Jeffrey Hardee Atwater (born April 8, 1958) is an American financier who served as the 3rd Chief Financial Officer of Florida from 2011 to 2017, and currently serves as Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Chief Financial Officer at Flor ...

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, former mayor of

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Pam Bondi Pamela Jo Bondi ( ; born November 17, 1965) is an American attorney, lobbyist, and politician who has served as the 87th United States attorney general since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, she served as the 37th attorney general of Fl ...

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, radio host, former Secret Service agent, and nominee for the U.S. Senate from Maryland in 2012 and for MD-06 in

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(running for FL-19) *

Vern Buchanan Vernon Gale Buchanan ( ; born May 8, 1951) is an American businessman, politician, and Air Force veteran serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 16th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, he first entere ...

, U.S. Representative (ran for

) *

Ben Carson Ben Solomon Carson Sr. (born September 18, 1951) is an American retired neurosurgery, neurosurgeon, academic, author, and government official who served as the 17th United States secretary of housing and urban development from 2017 to 2021. A pio ...

, retired neurosurgeon and former candidate for

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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

Curt Clawson Curtis Jay Clawson (born September 28, 1959) is an American politician who served as the United States representative for Florida's 19th congressional district from 2014 to 2017. He is the former chief executive of Hayes Lemmerz, a Michigan-base ...

, U.S. Representative * Randy Fine, businessman *

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, state senator (ran for

) * Don Gaetz, state senator and former State Senate President *

Mike Haridopolos Michael John Haridopolos (born March 15, 1970) is an American politician, consultant, and educator currently serving as the United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative from Florida's 8th congressional district. He previously serv ...

, former

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and candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2012 * George LeMieux, former U.S. senator *

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, former U.S. Representative and nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2012 *

Bill McCollum Ira William McCollum Jr. (born July 12, 1944) is an American lawyer and Republican Party politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 2001, representing Florida's 5th congressional district, which was ...

, former

, former U.S. Representative, nominee for U.S. Senate in

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

, candidate in

and candidate for governor in

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

John Mica John Luigi Mica (born January 27, 1943) is an American businessman, consultant and Republican politician who represented in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2017. He was defeated by Democrat Stephanie Murphy in the November 8, 201 ...

, U.S. Representative (ran for

) * Jeff Miller, U.S. Representative *

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and former U.S. Representative *

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, former

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(ran for

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) * Tom Rooney, U.S. Representative (ran for

) *

Dennis A. Ross Dennis Alan Ross (born October 18, 1959) is an American businessman and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 2011 to 2019. A Republican Party (United States), Republican from Florida, his district was numbere ...

, U.S. Representative (ran for

) *

Joe Scarborough Charles Joseph Scarborough (; born April 9, 1963) is an American television host and former politician who is the co-host of ''Morning Joe'' on MSNBC with his wife Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist. He previously hosted '' Scarborough Country'' ...

, cable news personality and former U.S. Representative *

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, former

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of the

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, U.S. Representative * Allen West, former U.S. Representative *

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, U.S. Representative (ran for

)

Endorsements

Polling

Results

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

Rocky De La Fuente Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente Guerra (born October 10, 1954) is an American businessman who has sought elected office. A perennial candidate, De La Fuente was the Reform Party nominee in the 2016 and 2020 United States presidential elections; he a ...

, businessman, candidate for president in 2016, and American Delta Party and Reform Party nominee for president in

Alan Grayson Alan Mark Grayson (born March 13, 1958) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 2009 to 2011 and from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was defeated for reelection in 2010 by Republican Danie ...

, U.S. Representative * Pam Keith, attorney, former

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in the U.S. Navy, and daughter of former Ambassador

Kenton Keith Kenton Jermaine Keith (born July 14, 1980) is an American former professional football running back. He was signed by the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League (CFL) in 2003 and then the Indianapolis Colts of the National Footb ...

* Reginald Luster, attorney * Patrick Murphy, U.S. Representative

Withdrawn

* Lateresa Jones, life coach and independent candidate for lieutenant governor in

(running as an Independent)

Declined

Bob Buckhorn Robert Francis Buckhorn Jr. (born July 29, 1958) is an American politician who served as the mayor of Tampa, Florida from 2011 to 2019. He is a member of the Democratic Party who also served two terms on the Tampa City Council. Early life and ed ...

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Kathy Castor Katherine Anne Castor ( ; born August 20, 1966) is an American politician and lawyer currently representing in the United States House of Representatives, serving since 2007. The district, numbered as the 11th district from 2007 to 2013, is b ...

, U.S. Representative *

Charlie Crist Charles Joseph Crist Jr. ( ; born July 24, 1956) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 44th List of governors of Florida, governor of Florida from 2007 to 2011 and as the United States House of Representatives, U.S. represen ...

, former Republican

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, independent candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2010 and Democratic nominee for governor in 2014 (running for the U.S. House of Representatives) *

Ted Deutch Theodore Eliot Deutch ( ; born May 7, 1966) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative from Florida's 22nd congressional district from 2010 to 2022. His district, numbered as the 19th district from 2010 to 2013 ...

, U.S. Representative (running for re-election) *

Buddy Dyer John Hugh "Buddy" Dyer (born August 7, 1958) is an American politician who has served as the Mayor of Orlando since 2003. A member of the Florida Democratic Party, he is Orlando's longest-serving mayor. He previously served as a representative ...

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, former Minority Leader of the

, former state senator and nominee for Florida attorney general in

Andrew Gillum Andrew Demetric Gillum (born July 26, 1979) is an American former politician who served as the 126th Mayors of Tallahassee, Florida, mayor of Tallahassee, Florida, from 2014 to 2018. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic P ...

, Mayor of

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* Philip Levine, Mayor of

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz Deborah Wasserman Schultz ( Wasserman; ; born September 27, 1966) is an American politician serving as the United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative for , first elected to Congress in United States House of Representatives elec ...

, U.S. Representative and former

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of the

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(running for re-election)

Endorsements

Polling

: * Internal poll for Alan Grayson

Results

Libertarian primary

On October 1, 2015, Adrian Wyllie and Lynn House, chair and vice chair, respectively, of the

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, resigned their seats in protest after the executive committee refused to oust candidate Augustus Invictus from the party. According to Wyllie, Invictus had defended

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, called for a new Civil War, and brutally slaughtered a goat, and is not representative of the Libertarian Party. Invictus has refuted these claims, calling Wyllie's accusations, "deliberate misrepresentation "

Candidates

Declared

* Augustus S. Invictus, attorney * Paul Stanton, IT technician and U.S. Army veteran

Declined

Roger Stone Roger Jason Stone (born Roger Joseph Stone Jr.; August 27, 1952) is an American Political consulting, political consultant and lobbyist. He is Donald Trump's longest-serving political adviser, best known for the Mueller special counsel investi ...

, political consultant, lobbyist and strategist

Endorsements

Results

2016 US Senate Libertarian Primary in Florida by county

Independent

Candidates

Declared

* Basil Dalack, attorney and former

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Village Councilman * Lateresa Jones, life coach and candidate for lieutenant governor in

* Anton "Tony" Khoury, businessman *

Steven Machat Steven Machat (born October 18, 1952) is an American entertainment mogul, lawyer, and the producer of ''Bird on a Wire'', the documentary film of the Leonard Cohen 1972 European tour. In addition, he is the co-founder of SSK Records. Biograph ...

, music producer * Bruce Nathan, physical therapist

No party affiliation

Candidates

Declared * Bruce Nathan, physical therapist

General election

Debates

Predictions

Polling

Graphical summary
with Ron DeSantis
with David Jolly
with Carlos Lopez-Cantera
with Jeff Atwater
with Pam Bondi
with Don Gaetz
with Jeff Miller
with Marco Rubio
with Allen West
with Todd Wilcox
with Carlos Beruff
with Alan Grayson

Results

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Miami-Dade Miami-Dade County () is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Florida. The county had a population of 2,701,767 as of the 2020 census, making it the most populous county in Florida and the seventh-most-populous count ...

(largest municipality:

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) *

Osceola Osceola (1804 – January 30, 1838, Vsse Yvholv in Muscogee language, Creek, also spelled Asi-yahola), named Billy Powell at birth, was an influential leader of the Seminole people in Florida. His mother was Muscogee, and his great-grandfa ...

(largest municipality:

Kissimmee Kissimmee ( ) is the largest city and county seat of Osceola County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 79,226. It is a principal city of the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, Florida, Metropolitan Statistical Area. ...

) * St. Lucie (largest municipality: Port St. Lucie) * Alachua (Largest city: Gainesville) *

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(Largest city:

)

Counties that flipped from Independent to Democratic

* Broward (Largest city:

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) *

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(Largest city:

) * Palm Beach (largest city:

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)

Counties that from Independent to Republican

Pinellas Pinellas is the name of a peninsula located roughly halfway down the west coast of Florida. It forms the western boundary of Tampa Bay and comprises the bulk of Pinellas County. There is a city named Pinellas Park in south Pinellas. The peninsul ...

(largest municipality:

)

By congressional district

Rubio won 16 of 27 congressional districts, with the remaining 11 going to Murphy. Each candidate won a congressional district that elected a representative of the other party.

References

External links

Official campaign websites
Marco Rubio (R) for Senate

Patrick Murphy (D) for Senate

Paul Stanton (L) for Senate

Tony Khoury (I) for Senate

Bruce Nathan (Unaffiliated) for Senate
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Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

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Declined

Endorsements

Polling

Results

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

Withdrawn

Declined

Endorsements

Polling

Results

Libertarian primary

Candidates

Declared

Declined

Endorsements

Results

Independent

Candidates

Declared

No party affiliation

Candidates

General election

Debates

Predictions

Polling

Results

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Counties that flipped from Independent to Democratic

Counties that from Independent to Republican

By congressional district

See also

References

External links