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Map by Patrick McCaslin<\/p>\n
A year ago, Miamians awoke to the news that Miami-Dade County had gone red<\/a>, by a lot. Now-President Donald Trump had won 55.2 percent of the vote, far surpassing Kamala Harris\u2019s 43.8 percent.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, Magic City inhabitants elected Eileen Higgins<\/a> as the first Democratic mayor of the City of Miami in nearly three decades, marking the\u00a0first time a woman has held the position<\/a>\u00a0in city history. Higgins, endorsed by the Democratic National Committee, ran against Trump-endorsed Emilio Gonz\u00e1lez. Higgins garnered 59 percent of the vote, with 22,142 Miamians voting in her favor, while Gonzalez earned the remaining 41 percent, or 15,097 votes. The hyperlocal election was largely seen<\/a> as a litmus test for anti-Trump sentiment in a region that once seemed so sure of the president.<\/p>\n What does Tuesday\u2019s election say about attitudes toward Trump? We crunched the data and linked an interactive map<\/a> so you can dig in:<\/p>\n Higgins\u2019 Win Is Surprising, but Not a Shock<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis year, make your gift count \u2013 \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOur work is funded by readers like you who make voluntary gifts because they value our work and want to see it continue. Make a contribution today to help us reach our $30,000 goal!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n While Miami-Dade County voted red in 2024, the City of Miami had remained a sea of blue. Harris won the city with 52.2 percent of the vote, and many large precincts (with 1,000 or more voters) even saw Harris surpass 70 percent. If those precincts continued to vote Democrat, Higgins could have easily won.<\/p>\n But Higgins managed to flip dozens of precincts that voted for Trump last year. Of the 57 Miami precincts that chose Trump in 2024, 27 of them flipped to Higgins in 2025.<\/p>\n With those extra precincts, Higgins improved on Harris\u2019s 2024 tally by seven percentage points, winning 59.5 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n Largely Latino Precincts Drive Change<\/p>\n At least 85 percent of the 27 precincts that voted for Trump in 2024 and Higgins in 2025 are predominantly Latino communities. That includes precincts in Allapattah, parts of Little Havana, and Coconut Grove. At least 60 percent of these areas have large immigrant communities.<\/p>\n That shift comes after a year of aggressive tactics from Trump to curb immigration, including erecting a detention center in the Everglades<\/a>, ending Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans<\/a> and Haitians, and conducting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids<\/a>. A poll released earlier this year<\/a> indicated that the majority of Miamians had soured on Trump\u2019s approach to immigration.<\/p>\n
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