Question: Who won Florida’s vote in the 1848 presidential election, the only time Floridians didn’t vote for a Republican or Democratic nominee?
Answer: The Whig Party’s Zachary Taylor
Florida has voted for a Republican or Democratic nominee in every election except in 1848, when it voted for the Whig Party’s Zachary Taylor. Florida did not participate in the 1864 election because it seceded from the Union during the American Civil War. Like most other Southern states, it primarily voted Democratic until the mid-twentieth century, when it began leaning more Republican.
