As expected, Republicans held onto power in Florida, but their plan to expand their control by manipulating congressional maps backfired — and should be a lesson that trying to predetermine election results is a bad move and an uncertain bet.

Ashley Moody defied the blue tsunami to hold Florida's Senate seat, and her rapid rise in GOP seniority could reshape the Republican future.

Republican Ryan Elijah says has won Florida's 7th Congressional District seat in a close race with Democrat Bale Dalton.

Readers overwhelmingly say soaring property insurance premiums should be Byron Donalds' top priority as governor.

On Tuesday night, Florida voters chose Byron Donalds as their next governor. He defeated Democrat David Jolly and will become the state's first Black governor. For the families we serve at Family Initiative,

Democratic congressional candidate Eliott Rodriguez demanded the supervisor of elections recuse herself from oversight of the recount in his race against Maria Elvira Salazar.

Florida Democrats showed the party can be relevant again, but in the end, they came up short as Republicans still maintained dominance in the state.

Amendment 3 passed by a statewide vote, but support wasn't distributed equally. Why it matters: The property tax exemption performed better in Republican-leaning areas with fewer renters, according to a Tampa Bay Times analysis of voter data. In fact, Gov. Ron DeSantis attributed the measure to helping drive Republican voter turnout. The big picture: About 62% of voters statewide approved the amendment, according to the Florida Division of...

Democrat Nicole Locklin says her vote count briefly surged and then dropped on election night, and the Associated Press says a data-entry error caused an incorrect total to appear.