{"id":121188,"date":"2026-01-16T22:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/121188\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T22:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:35:06","slug":"who-is-ahead-in-the-florida-governors-race-latest-2026-election-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/121188\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Ahead in the Florida Governor&#8217;s Race? Latest 2026 Election Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> About the data <\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text  svelte-t0sr1j\">Source: Polls collected by The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text  svelte-t0sr1j\">Pollsters that meet at least two of the three criteria below are considered \u201cselect pollsters\u201d by The Times, as long as they are conducting polls for nonpartisan sponsors.<br \/>\nHas a track record of accuracy in recent elections<br \/>\nIs a member of a professional polling organization<br \/>\nConducts probability-based sampling<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text  svelte-t0sr1j\">Polls that were conducted by or for partisan organizations are labeled, as they often release results that are favorable only to their causes. Margins are calculated using unrounded vote shares when available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text  svelte-t0sr1j\">The Times conducts its own national and state polls in partnership with Siena College. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/news-event\/times-siena-poll-coverage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow Times\/Siena polling here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Download the data <\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text  svelte-t0sr1j\">Unless otherwise noted, the data sets that power this project are created by The New York Times and are available under the <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/?ref=chooser-v1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International<\/a> license. Use of these data sets is subject to the terms and conditions of this license, including but not limited to the attribution requirements. These data sets are offered as-is and as-available, and The Times does not make any representations or warranties, express or implied, concerning these data sets. If you are migrating from the FiveThirtyEight dataset, you can see known differences documented <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/17\/polls\/donald-trump-approval-poll-tracker.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nPresidential approval polls, Jan. 20, 2025, to present: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/newsgraphics\/polls\/approval\/president.csv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Download<\/a><br \/>\nPresidential approval averages, Jan. 20, 2025, to present: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/newsgraphics\/polls\/approval\/president-averages.csv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Download<\/a><br \/>\nSenate polls, 2026 cycle: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/newsgraphics\/polls\/senate.csv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Download<\/a><br \/>\nGovernor polls, 2026 cycle: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/newsgraphics\/polls\/governor.csv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Credits <\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text  svelte-t0sr1j\">By Michael Andre, Irineo Cabreros, Annie Daniel, Mart\u00edn Gonz\u00e1lez G\u00f3mez, Ruth Igielnik, Jasmine C. Lee, Jenni Lee, Alex Lemonides, Ilana Marcus, Katherine Oung, Dan Simmons-Ritchie, Jonah Smith and Caroline Soler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About the data Source: Polls collected by The New York Times. Pollsters that meet at least two of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2715,28,30,29,32395,60677],"class_list":{"0":"post-121188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-elections","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-governors","13":"tag-polls-and-public-opinion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}