1988 United States presidential election in Florida
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The 1988 United States presidential election in Florida took place on November 8, 1988.[2] All fifty states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1988 United States presidential election. Florida voters chose twenty-one electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.
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County Results
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Florida was won by incumbent Vice President George H. W. Bush, running with U.S Senator Dan Quayle, against Governor Michael Dukakis, running with U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen. This was Bush's fifth strongest state in the 1988 election after Utah, New Hampshire, Idaho and South Carolina.[3]
Bush won every county in the state, with the exception for North Florida’s majority-black Gadsden County, which voted for Dukakis. As of the 2020 presidential election[update], this is the last election in which Miami-Dade County, Broward County, Palm Beach County, Alachua County, and Leon County voted for a Republican presidential candidate.[4]