Source notes · U.S. House by county, 2022 vs 2026

Florida: sources, checks and caveats

Sources

• 2022 (certified): Florida Division of Elections results archive, a county-level extract of all races. The page is https://results.elections.myflorida.com/downloadresults.asp?ElectionDate=11/8/2022&DATAMODE= and the file is downloaded by POSTing to https://results.elections.myflorida.com/ResultsExtract.Asp (ElectionDate=11/8/2022, OfficialResults=Y). It is tab-delimited. Rows used: RaceCode USR ("United States Representative").
• 2026 (unofficial): Florida Election Watch (Florida Department of State election-night site). There is one page per district, "Contest Results by County": https://floridaelectionwatch.gov/ContestResultsByCounty/1400NN (NN = district, 01–28; for example 140030 = District 3). The district list comes from https://floridaelectionwatch.gov/FederalOffices/USRepresentative.
• The state's machine-readable 2026 files are linked from https://floridaelectionwatch.gov/Downloads (for example https://flelectionfiles.floridados.gov/enightfilespublic/20261103_ElecResultsFL.txt). They could not be fetched because the TLS certificate for flelectionfiles.floridados.gov expired on 2026-11-09 14:09 GMT. The site's HTML pages were scraped instead. For every contest, the county rows add up exactly to the "Total" row on that page.
• County FIPS: Census 2020 national_county2020.txt.

2026 as-of

The site banner reads "2026 General Election, November 3, 2026, 1st Set of Unofficial Returns (pursuant to s. 102.141, F.S.)". The site shows no clock timestamp. The pages were retrieved 2026-11-10 02:05 UTC (Nov 9, 9:05 pm ET). The download links on the site carried the version tag ?v=21345853.

Validation (sum of county columns vs. established statewide totals)

2022 matches exactly. The 2026 sums are slightly higher than the national aggregate, which fits a later snapshot of a count that is still being updated. Every 2026 district's county rows add up exactly to that district's total.

Districts without a D or R candidate on the ballot

Florida does not print uncontested races on the ballot, so an unopposed district has no votes at all. - 2022: District 5 has no votes because John Rutherford (R) was unopposed and the race was not on the ballot. District 6 had no D (Waltz R vs. Hannoush LPF). District 18 had no D (Franklin R vs. Hayden NPA, plus a write-in). - 2026: District 10 does not appear among the U.S. Representative contests on Election Watch, so its county portions contribute 0. News reports from qualifying in June 2026 say Maxwell Frost (D) qualified unopposed. All other 27 districts have both a D and an R.

Caveats

• The 2026 map was redrawn, so the district-to-county overlap differs from 2022. County totals are still comparable as "all House votes cast in the county", but uncontested races affect them. In 2022, D5 (Rutherford, unopposed, not on the ballot) covered parts of Duval and St. Johns, so those votes are missing entirely. D6 and D18 had no D. As a result, d22 = 0 in Desoto, Flagler, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Highlands, Okeechobee, Putnam and St. Johns. In 2026, no county has a 0 in d26 or r26, but the part of any county lying in D10 (Orlando area) has no House votes.
• "o" includes NPA, LPF, IND and other minor-party candidates, plus qualified write-in candidates (WRI). Florida's results do not include over/under votes or write-ins for unqualified candidates.
• County spelling follows the DOS extract (for example "Desoto", "Miami-Dade", "St. Johns").

These notes record where each number came from and how it was checked. 2026 figures are unofficial. See the methodology and disclaimer.