When Florida’s First Coast came out to the polls this week to pick a new president (and a whole lot more), St. Johns County had the best voter turnout among counties in the Jax region: 86.59%. Clay, Nassau and Putnam counties all surpassed 80%, as well. Duval, though, took last place. Jacksonville’s voter turnout is our number this week: 73.37%.

More Duval Republicans voted in the 2024 election than Democrats, even though registered Democrats still outnumber registered Republicans in the county. Republicans, who make up about 36% of Duval’s registered voters, overperformed, with 41% of the ballots in Tuesday’s election. Republicans have consistently had a higher turnout in Duval over the last 20 years.

And though Duval is one of Florida’s few majority-Democrat counties remaining, it almost always picks Republican presidents. This year was no exception.