Question: Who won Florida’s vote in the 1848 presidential election, the only time Floridians didn’t vote for a major party nominee?
Answer: The Whig Party’s Zachary Taylor
Florida has voted for a major party nominee in every election, backing the Republican nominee 17 times, Democratic nominee 25 times, and the only time it did not vote Republican or Democrat was in 1848 when it voted for the Whig Party’s Zachary Taylor. Florida did not take part in the 1864 election due to its secession from the Union in the American Civil War, and like most other southern states, it primarily voted Democrat until the mid-twentieth century, when it then started leaning more Republican.
