A Republican Party primary took place on August 23, 2022, in Florida's 16th Congressional District to determine which Republican candidate would run in the district's general election on November 8, 2022.

Incumbent Vern Buchanan advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 16.

Candidate filing deadline	Primary election	General election
June 17, 2022	August 23, 2022	November 8, 2022

A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. Florida utilizes a closed primary process, in which the selection of a party's candidates in an election is limited to registered party members.^[1]^[2]

For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.

This page focuses on Florida's 16th Congressional District Republican primary. For more in-depth information on the district's Democratic primary and the general election, see the following pages:

Candidates and election results[edit]

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 16

Incumbent Vern Buchanan defeated Martin Hyde in the Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 16 on August 23, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Vern Buchanan	86.2	64,028
	Martin Hyde	13.8	10,219

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 74,247
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News and conflicts in this primary[edit]

This race was featured in The Heart of the Primaries, a newsletter capturing stories related to conflicts within each major party. Click here to read more about conflict in this and other 2022 Republican House primaries. Click here to subscribe to the newsletter.

Heart of the Primaries 2022, Republicans-Issue 1 (November 18, 2021)

Campaign finance[edit]

This section contains campaign finance figures from the Federal Election Commission covering all candidate fundraising and spending in this election.^[3] It does not include information on fundraising before the current campaign cycle or on spending by satellite groups. The numbers in this section are updated as candidates file new campaign finance reports. Candidates for Congress are required to file financial reports on a quarterly basis, as well as two weeks before any primary, runoff, or general election in which they will be on the ballot and upon the termination of any campaign committees.^[4] Click here to view the reporting schedule for candidates for U.S. Congress in 2022.

U.S. Congress campaign reporting schedule, 2022
Report	Close of books	Filing deadline
Year-end 2021	12/31/2021	1/31/2022
April quarterly	3/31/2022	4/15/2022
July quarterly	6/30/2022	7/15/2022
October quarterly	9/30/2022	10/15/2022
Pre-general	10/19/2022	10/27/2022
Post-general	11/28/2022	12/08/2022
Year-end 2022	12/31/2022	1/31/2023

Name

Party

Receipts*

Disbursements**

Cash on hand

Date

Vern Buchanan

Republican Party

$4,693,373

$3,383,107

$1,383,351

As of December 31, 2022

Martin Hyde

Republican Party

$230,006

$218,210

$11,796

As of September 30, 2022

Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2022. This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

* According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee."
** According to the FEC, a disbursement "is a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit or gift of money or anything of value to influence a federal election," plus other kinds of payments not made to influence a federal election.

Ballot access requirements[edit]

The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Florida in the 2022 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Florida, click here.

Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2022
State	Office	Party	Signatures required	Filing fee	Filing deadline	Source
Florida	U.S. House	Ballot-qualified party	2,568^[5]	$10,440.00	6/17/2022	Source
Florida	U.S. House	Unaffiliated	2,568^[6]	$6,960.00	6/17/2022	Source

District analysis[edit]

Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.

District map - A map of the district before and after redistricting.
Effect of redistricting - How districts in the state changed as a result of redistricting following the 2020 census.
Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2022 U.S. House elections in the state.
Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
Demographics - Information about the state's demographics and how they compare to the country as a whole.
State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.

District map

	2024 → ← 2020
Florida's 16th Congressional District
	Democratic primary; Republican primary; General election
Election details
	Filing deadline: June 17, 2022
	Primary: August 23, 2022; General: November 8, 2022
How to vote
	Poll times: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Voting in Florida
Race ratings
	Cook Partisan Voter Index (2022): R+7; Cook Political Report: Solid Republican; Inside Elections: Solid Republican; Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Republican
Ballotpedia analysis
	U.S. Senate battlegrounds; U.S. House battlegrounds; Federal and state primary competitiveness; Ballotpedia's Election Analysis Hub, 2022
See also
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Below was the map in use at the time of the election, enacted as part of the 2020 redistricting cycle, compared to the map in place before the election.

Florida District 16
until January 2, 2023

Click a district to compare boundaries.

Florida District 16
starting January 3, 2023

Click a district to compare boundaries.

Effect of redistricting

See also: Redistricting in Florida after the 2020 census

The table below details the results of the 2020 presidential election in each district at the time of the 2022 election and its political predecessor district.^[7] This data was compiled by Daily Kos Elections.^[8]

2020 presidential results by Congressional district, Florida
District	2022 district		Political predecessor district
District	Joe Biden	Donald Trump	Joe Biden	Donald Trump
Florida's 1st	33.0%	65.3%	32.4%	65.9%
Florida's 2nd	44.0%	55.0%	FL-02: 32.0% FL-05: 67.0%	FL-02: 62.7% FL-05: 36.2%
Florida's 3rd	42.4%	56.5%	42.8%	56.0%
Florida's 4th	46.0%	52.7%	FL-02: 32.0% FL-05: 67.0%	FL-02: 62.7% FL-05: 36.2%
Florida's 5th	41.5%	57.3%	38.9%	59.9%
Florida's 6th	37.7%	61.4%	40.8%	58.3%
Florida's 7th	46.7%	52.2%	54.6%	44.2%
Florida's 8th	40.6%	58.3%	40.6%	58.3%
Florida's 9th	58.2%	40.8%	53.0%	46.1%
Florida's 10th	65.3%	33.5%	62.0%	37.0%
Florida's 11th	44.1%	55.0%	33.8%	65.4%
Florida's 12th	35.1%	63.9%	41.0%	57.9%
Florida's 13th	46.1%	52.9%	51.5%	47.4%
Florida's 14th	59.0%	39.8%	57.2%	41.6%
Florida's 15th	47.9%	51.0%	---	---
Florida's 16th	45.1%	54.0%	45.5%	53.6%
Florida's 17th	41.6%	57.6%	35.9%	63.3%
Florida's 18th	38.1%	60.9%	45.2%	53.7%
Florida's 19th	39.1%	60.2%	39.6%	59.7%
Florida's 20th	75.9%	23.5%	77.3%	22.1%
Florida's 21st	45.0%	54.4%	45.5%	53.9%
Florida's 22nd	58.5%	40.9%	58.2%	41.2%
Florida's 23rd	56.3%	43.1%	57.1%	42.3%
Florida's 24th	74.3%	25.2%	75.4%	24.0%
Florida's 25th	59.7%	39.7%	58.3%	41.2%
Florida's 26th	40.6%	58.9%	38.2%	61.2%
Florida's 27th	49.6%	49.9%	51.3%	48.1%
Florida's 28th	46.5%	52.9%	46.9%	52.5%

Competitiveness

See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2022

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Florida.

Florida U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2022
Office	Districts/ offices	Seats	Open seats	Candidates	Possible primaries	Contested Democratic primaries	Contested Republican primaries	% of contested primaries	Incumbents in contested primaries	% of incumbents in contested primaries
2022	28	28	6	151	56	14	24	67.9%	17	73.9%
2020	27	27	2	114	54	10	19	53.7%	10	40.0%
2018	27	27	4	104	54	19	12	57.4%	11	47.8%
2016	27	27	7	100	54	11	13	44.4%	9	45.0%
2014	27	27	0	75	54	5	10	27.8%	8	29.6%

Post-filing deadline analysis[edit]

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Florida in 2022. Information below was calculated on August 16, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

One hundred fifty-two candidates filed to run for Florida's 28 U.S. House districts, including 58 Democrats and 94 Republicans. That's 5.43 candidates per district, more than the 4.22 candidates per district in 2020 and the 3.86 in 2018.

This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census, which resulted in Florida gaining one U.S. House district. The 152 candidates who filed to run this year were a decade-high. One hundred fourteen candidates ran in 2020, 104 in 2018, 100 in 2016, 75 in 2014, and 89 in 2012.

A total of eight incumbents ran in districts different from the ones they represented before the election.

Two incumbents from different parties filed to run against each other in the 2nd district. Rep. Al Lawson (D), who represented the 5th district, filed to run against 2nd district incumbent Rep. Neal Dunn (R) in the general election.

Four incumbents did not run for re-election. Rep. Charlie Crist (D), who represented the 13th district, ran for governor, and Rep. Val Demings (D), who represented the 10th district, ran for the U.S. Senate. Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D), who represented the 7th district, and Rep. Ted Deutch (D), who represented the 22nd district, retired.

Six seats were open, including Crist's, Demings', and Murphy's. The three remaining open seats were the 4th, the 15th, and the 23rd. Rep. John Rutherford (R), who represented the 4th district, ran in the 5th this year, and Rep. Scott Franklin (R), who represented the 15th district, ran in the 18th. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, who represented the 23rd district, ran in the 25th. The six open seats this year were four more than in 2020, when two seats were open, and two more than in 2018, when four seats were open. Seven seats were open in 2016, and no seats were open in 2014.

Sixteen candidates—ten Democrats and six Republicans—ran to replace Demings in the 10th district, the most candidates who ran for a seat this year.

There were 38 contested primaries this year, a decade-high. That was nine more than in 2020, when there were 29 contested primaries, and seven more than in 2018, when there were 31 contested primaries. Fourteen of the contested primaries were Democratic primaries. That was four more than in 2020, when there were ten contested Democratic primaries, and five fewer than in 2018, when there were 19. Twenty-four of the contested primaries were Republican primaries. That number, a decade-high, was five more than in 2020, when there were 19 contested Republican primaries, and 12 more than in 2018, when there were 12.

There were 17 incumbents in contested primaries this year, also a decade-high. That number was seven more than in 2020, when ten incumbents faced contested primaries, and six more than in 2018, when 11 incumbents did. Six incumbents faced no primary challengers this year. Three seats—the 5th, the 6th, and the 18th districts—were guaranteed to Republicans because no Democrats filed. No seats were guaranteed to Democrats because no Republicans filed.

Presidential elections

Partisan Voter Index

See also: The Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index

Heading into the 2022 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was R+7. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 7 percentage points more Republican than the national average. This made Florida's 16th the 175th most Republican district nationally.^[9]

2020 presidential election results

The table below shows what the vote in the 2020 presidential election would have been in this district. The presidential election data was compiled by Daily Kos.

2020 presidential results in Florida's 16th based on 2022 district lines
Joe Biden	Donald Trump
45.1%	54.0%

Presidential voting history

See also: Presidential election in Florida, 2020

Florida presidential election results (1900-2020)

17 Democratic wins
14 Republican wins

Year	1900	1904	1908	1912	1916	1920	1924	1928	1932	1936	1940	1944	1948	1952	1956	1960	1964	1968	1972	1976	1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012	2016	2020
Winning Party	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	R	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	D	R	R	D	R	R	R	R	D	R	R	D	D	R	R

Demographics

The table below details demographic data in Florida and compares it to the broader United States as of 2019.

Demographic Data for Florida
	Florida	United States
Population	21,538,187	331,449,281
Land area (sq mi)	53,653	3,531,905
Race and ethnicity**
White	71.6%	70.4%
Black/African American	15.9%	12.6%
Asian	2.8%	5.6%
Native American	0.3%	0.8%
Pacific Islander	0.1%	0.2%
Two or more	6%	5.2%
Hispanic/Latino	25.8%	18.2%
Education
High school graduation rate	88.5%	88.5%
College graduation rate	30.5%	32.9%
Income
Median household income	$57,703	$64,994
Persons below poverty level	13.3%	12.8%
Source: population provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "Decennial Census" (2020). Other figures provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2015-2020).
**Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.

State party control

Congressional delegation

The table below displays the partisan composition of Delaware's congressional delegation as of November 2022.

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Delaware, November 2022
Party	U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
Democratic	0	9	9
Republican	2	16	18
Independent	0	0	0
Vacancies	0	2	2
Total	2	27	29

State executive

The table below displays the officeholders in Florida's top four state executive offices as of November 2022.

State executive officials in Florida, November 2022
Office	Officeholder
Governor	Ron DeSantis
Lieutenant Governor	Jeanette Nuñez
Secretary of State	Cord Byrd
Attorney General	Ashley B. Moody

State legislature

The tables below highlight the partisan composition of the Florida State Legislature as of November 2022.

Florida State Senate[edit]

Party		As of November 2022
	Democratic Party	12
	Republican Party	28
	Vacancies	0
Total		40

Florida House of Representatives[edit]

Party		As of November 2022
	Democratic Party	35
	Republican Party	84
	Vacancies	1
Total		120

Trifecta control

As of November 2022, Florida was a Republican trifecta, with majorities in both chambers of the state legislature and control of the governorship. The table below displays the historical trifecta status of the state.

Florida Party Control: 1992-2022
One year of a Democratic trifecta • Twenty-three years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

Year	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Governor	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	I	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
Senate	D	S	S	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
House	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R

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Footnotes[edit]

↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "State Primary Election Types," accessed July 23, 2024
↑ Florida Division of Elections, "Closed Primary Election," accessed July 23, 2024
↑ Fundraising by primary candidates can be found on the race's respective primary election page. Fundraising by general election candidates can be found on the race's general election page.
↑ Federal Election Commission, "2022 Quarterly Reports," accessed March 2, 2022
↑ Petition signatures only required in lieu of a filing fee.
↑ Petition signatures only required in lieu of a filing fee.
↑ Political predecessor districts are determined primarily based on incumbents and where each chose to seek re-election.
↑ Daily Kos Elections, "Daily Kos Elections 2020 presidential results by congressional district (old CDs vs. new CDs)," accessed May 12, 2022
↑ Cook Political Report, "The 2022 Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI℠)," accessed February 6, 2023

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Florida's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Marco Rubio (R)

Rick Scott (R)

Representatives

District 1

Matt Gaetz (R)

District 2

Neal Dunn (R)

District 3

Kat Cammack (R)

District 4

Aaron Bean (R)

District 5

John Rutherford (R)

District 6

Michael Waltz (R)

District 7

Cory Mills (R)

District 8

Bill Posey (R)

District 9

Darren Soto (D)

District 10

Maxwell Frost (D)

District 11

Daniel Webster (R)

District 12

Gus Bilirakis (R)

District 13

Anna Luna (R)

District 14

Kathy Castor (D)

District 15

Laurel Lee (R)

District 16

Vern Buchanan (R)

District 17

Greg Steube (R)

District 18

Scott Franklin (R)

District 19

Byron Donalds (R)

District 20

Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D)

District 21

Brian Mast (R)

District 22

Lois Frankel (D)

District 23

Jared Moskowitz (D)

District 24

Frederica Wilson (D)

District 25

Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D)

District 26

Mario Diaz-Balart (R)

District 27

Maria Elvira Salazar (R)

District 28

Carlos Gimenez (R)

Republican Party (22)

Democratic Party (8)

[1] National Conference of State Legislatures, "State Primary Election Types," accessed July 23, 2024

[2] Florida Division of Elections, "Closed Primary Election," accessed July 23, 2024

[3] Fundraising by primary candidates can be found on the race's respective primary election page. Fundraising by general election candidates can be found on the race's general election page.

[4] Federal Election Commission, "2022 Quarterly Reports," accessed March 2, 2022

[5] Petition signatures only required in lieu of a filing fee.

[6] Petition signatures only required in lieu of a filing fee.

[7] Political predecessor districts are determined primarily based on incumbents and where each chose to seek re-election.

[8] Daily Kos Elections, "Daily Kos Elections 2020 presidential results by congressional district (old CDs vs. new CDs)," accessed May 12, 2022

[9] Cook Political Report, "The 2022 Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI℠)," accessed February 6, 2023

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