Florida special primary, August 18, 2026

U.S. Senate

Republican primary

CALLED, MOODY

Projected winner

79.6%Ashley Moody+65.8 over Gleason

Votes counted

1,659,559of about 1,659,559 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

4 on the ballot, ordered by vote.

Ashley MoodyINCUMBENT79.6%1,320,407 votes

Chris Gleason13.7%227,906 votes

Ernest Rivera4.8%79,969 votes

Neelam Perry1.9%31,277 votes

How the vote was cast

Of the 1,659,559 votes counted so far, 1,360,633 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 absentee29.3%399,012 votesEarly in person25.6%348,028 votesElection day45.1%613,593 votes

Mail and absentee399,012 votes, 29% of the count

Moody78.9%314,863Gleason12.8%50,894Rivera5.7%22,779Perry2.6%10,476

Moody won mail and absentee ballots by 66.2 points over Gleason.

Early in person348,028 votes, 26% of the count

Moody80.9%281,435Gleason12.9%45,010Rivera4.5%15,628Perry1.7%5,955

Moody won early in person ballots by 67.9 points over Gleason.

Election day613,593 votes, 45% of the count

Moody78.1%479,159Gleason15.6%95,587Rivera4.8%29,509Perry1.5%9,338

Moody won election day ballots by 62.5 points over Gleason.

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.

MoodyGleasonRiveraPerry

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.