The number of Latinos registered in Florida as Democrats grew at an accelerated rate, according to data compiled and released this week by the Pew Hispanic Center in Washington, D.C.
The final registration statistics for Florida’s Jan. 31 presidential primary shows that 564,513 Latino registered voters are registered as Democrats, representing 12.4 percent of all Democratic registered voters, compared with 452,619 Latinos registered as Republicans, representing 11.1 percent of all Republican registered voters, according to data released by the Florida Division of Elections.
As recently as 2006, more Hispanics in Florida were registered as Republicans than as Democrats, the center reported. By 2008, the balance tipped over to the Democrats. This year that trend has accelerated, with the gap—111,894 registered voters—between Hispanics who are registered as Democrats and those registered as Republicans wider now than in 2008 or 2010.
The information is contained in a new statistical profile of Latino eligible voters in Florida by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center. In addition to official voter registration data, the statistical profile provides key demographic and socioeconomic information about Florida’s 2.1 million Latino eligible voters and other major groups of eligible voters in Florida based on tabulations of the Census Bureau’s 2010 American Community Survey.
Click here for the statistical profile of Latino eligible voters in Florida.
The Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center, is a nonpartisan, non-advocacy research organization based in Washington, D.C. and is funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts