Florida primary, August 18, 2026

Governor

Republican primary

CALLED, DONALDS

Projected winner

47.8%Byron Donalds+22.6 over Collins

Votes counted

1,697,016of about 1,697,016 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

11 on the ballot, ordered by vote.

Byron Donalds47.8%810,916 votes

Jay Collins25.2%426,891 votes

James Fishback10.5%177,723 votes

Paul Renner8.5%145,023 votes

Bobby Williams4.1%69,204 votes

Rachel Rodriguez1.6%27,626 votes

Jim Holcomb0.8%13,180 votes

James Shaw0.5%7,891 votes

Arthur McCaffrey0.4%7,058 votes

Caneste Succe0.4%6,291 votes

Daniel Nokovich0.3%5,213 votes

How the vote was cast

Of the 1,697,016 votes counted so far, 1,382,403 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 absentee29.0%400,522 votesEarly in person25.6%353,270 votesElection day45.5%628,611 votes

Mail and absentee400,522 votes, 29% of the count

Donalds53.9%215,942Collins24.4%97,626Renner8.5%33,975Fishback5.4%21,721Rodriguez2.8%11,370Williams2.7%10,797

Donalds won mail and absentee ballots by 29.5 points over Collins.

Early in person353,270 votes, 26% of the count

Donalds48.5%171,196Collins26.6%93,804Fishback9.4%33,041Renner8.7%30,741Williams3.9%13,738Rodriguez1.5%5,214

Donalds won early in person ballots by 21.9 points over Collins.

Election day628,611 votes, 45% of the count

Donalds46.5%292,483Collins24.3%152,870Fishback14.4%90,219Renner7.9%49,544Williams4.4%27,913Rodriguez1.1%7,185

Donalds won election day ballots by 22.2 points over Collins.

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.

DonaldsCollinsFishbackRennerWilliamsRodriguez

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.