Florida primary, August 18, 2026

Governor

Democratic primary

CALLED, JOLLY

Projected winner

61.0%David Jolly+45.8 over Foster

Votes counted

1,249,957of about 1,249,957 expected

Share of expected vote in

100.0%5,641 of 5,670 precincts have reported

Race called

>99%the feed has called it

The field

6 on the ballot, ordered by vote.

David Jolly61.0%761,877 votes

Dayna Foster15.1%189,311 votes

Dotie Joseph9.6%119,889 votes

Evelyn Castillo-Bach7.7%96,648 votes

Thomas Fernandez3.8%47,290 votes

Stephann Norman2.8%34,942 votes

How the vote was cast

Of the 1,249,957 votes counted so far, 1,109,053 come with the ballot type published. Mail ballots are usually counted first and election-day ballots last, so a lead built on one can move as the others land. Each bar below is that way of voting on its own: who won it, and by how much.

Ballots counted so far, by type

Mail and absentee43.8%485,480 votesEarly in person25.3%280,359 votesElection day30.9%343,214 votes

Mail and absentee485,480 votes, 44% of the count

Jolly66.9%324,592Foster10.9%52,764Joseph9.1%43,963Castillo-Bach7.2%34,920Fernandez3.7%18,142Norman2.3%11,099

Jolly won mail and absentee ballots by 56.0 points over Foster.

Early in person280,359 votes, 25% of the count

Jolly60.3%169,146Foster16.1%45,028Joseph10.2%28,594Castillo-Bach7.2%20,106Fernandez3.3%9,373Norman2.9%8,112

Jolly won early in person ballots by 44.3 points over Foster.

Election day343,214 votes, 31% of the count

Jolly51.6%177,009Foster21.4%73,591Joseph10.6%36,344Castillo-Bach8.9%30,711Fernandez4.2%14,281Norman3.3%11,278

Jolly won election day ballots by 30.1 points over Foster.

Registered voters across the counties in this race: 16,115,656 in total, 4,997,197 Democratic, 6,213,825 Republican, 4,358,218 unaffiliated or other. Registration is the whole electorate, not the primary electorate, so it sets the scale rather than predicting the result.

What is left to count

65 of 67 counties finished, 67 reporting anything.

Every county with an estimate has counted its expected vote.

Where the vote is coming from

Shaded for whoever leads each county, deeper where the margin is wider. Click one to pin it below.

JollyFosterJosephCastillo-BachFernandezNorman

Every county

67 counties in this race. Every county has reported something. Click any of them to break it down above.

Live returns from the Decision Desk HQ public results feed. Percentages are the share within this contest. Where a county publishes no precinct count, progress is its counted vote against the expected total, or the feed’s own completion flag, and is labeled as such. Lead confidence describes how much of the vote is still out, not a polling forecast. Results are unofficial until certified.