{"id":376231,"date":"2026-08-20T04:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376231\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T04:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:14:21","slug":"duvals-election-turnout-modest-support-for-angie-nixon-overwhelming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376231\/","title":{"rendered":"Duval\u2019s election turnout modest; support for Angie Nixon overwhelming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duval County has nearly equal numbers of registered Democrats and Republicans, and similar numbers turned out at the polls for the <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2026\/08\/18\/august-election-day-decided-outright\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aug. 18 primary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bTurnout among registered voters totaled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duvalelections.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">about 23%,<\/a> including 28% of Democrats and 29% of Republicans, according to the supervisor of elections website.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 150,890 people cast their ballots by mail, in person or during early voting. That was out of 645,955 active eligible voters in the county.<\/p>\n<p>The turnout rate was higher than the 19% turnout in the 2024 primaries but lower than the 29% turnout in the 2022 primaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bTurnout and Nixon<\/p>\n<p>Among Democrats, there was overwhelming support for Angie Nixon, the Jacksonville resident and Florida House member who sought the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Nixon, a progressive, <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2026\/08\/18\/nixon-upsets-vindman-senate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">upset<\/a> the better-financed Alex Vindman, a former National Security Council aide.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bStatewide, Nixon defeated Vindman <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2026\/08\/18\/vote-totals-northeast-florida\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">56% to 44%<\/a>, winning in most of Florida\u2019s major metro areas. She ran particularly strong in Duval County, where she won nearly all of the county\u2019s 159 precincts.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bNixon took about 80% of Duval\u2019s Democratic votes, including early voters and those who cast ballots by mail. Only six of the county\u2019s precincts chose Vindman over Nixon.<\/p>\n<p>Nixon, for example, received overwhelming support in Precinct 1005 in Harborview, where she collected 1,404 votes to Vindman\u2019s 52. Just over 96% of votes went to Nixon.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bAt Precinct 212, in Black Hammock Island Park, the Democratic vote count was meager and perfectly split. Fourteen Democrats voted to send Nixon to the general election, and 14 others chose Vindman.<\/p>\n<p>\u200b\u200bPrecinct 310\u2019s split was almost 54% for Vindman and 46% for Nixon, or 186 of 346 votes for him. That precinct is mostly west of San Pablo Boulevard, with the majority of it between Butler and Beach boulevards.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bNixon will face Republican incumbent Ashley Moody in the general election in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duval County has nearly equal numbers of registered Democrats and Republicans, and similar numbers turned out at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1039,114192,88005,116,118,117,52066,115],"class_list":["post-376231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-duval-county","tag-elections-2026","tag-government-politics","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jaxtdy3","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376231","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=376231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}