Mitt Romney tasted success in Florida, but how did the Republican presidential candidates do county by county?
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As the Florida primary results were announced last night they read like this:
Mitt Romney took 46.4% of the votes to win, while Newt Gingrich took 31.9% and Rick Santorum 13.4%.
The Florida primary is a very different contest to any of the previous three.
Guardian analysis explains why:
- The battle [in Florida] is waged over the airwaves and media buying power is often decisive. That explains why Mitt Romney, whose campaign and associated super PAC have spent almost $14m in ads in the state, went into polling day with a double digit poll lead.
- The high concentration of Latino voters - predominantly Cuban American - for example has made immigration a major issue. The key counties to watch are Miami-Dade and the two big ones on the crucial I-4 corridor: Hillsborough, which covers Tampa, and Orange which takes in Orlando.
The datablog is collecting data for the 2012 US presidential race, county by county, in one big spreadsheet.
In this spreadsheet you can already see the Iowa caucus, New Hampshire and South Carolina primary results.
We're working to keep on top of the recounts so the data is as accurate as it can be.
We have just added the latest Florida results. You can see a summary of the data below.
Some simple analysis of the votes received in each county relative to the total votes for that county shows that Mitt Romney was most strongly supported in the counties of Miami-Dade then Pinellas, and he received the least support in Liberty.
We are also interested in the voter turnout. What do you suggest we do with the voter turnout figures? And perhaps more importantly, what can you do with this data
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