- March 28, 2024
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More than two-thirds of Longboat Key Republican voters chose Mitt Romney as their candidate in the Jan. 31 presidential primary. In Manatee County Precinct 95, Romney received 387 votes, or 64% of the total. In Sarasota County Precinct 19, Romney got 965 votes, or 72% of the total.
Romney received 1,352 Longboat Key votes, or 69.26% of votes cast.
Longboat Key voters cast 1,952 votes, with just over 59% of the island’s 3,304 registered Republicans casting ballots.
The box below shows a breakdown of how Longboat Key voted in the primary:
Total Longboat %
Mitt Romney 1,352 69.26%
Newt Gingrich 400 20.49%
Rick Santorum 119 6.10%
Ron Paul 71 3.64%
All others 20 1.02%
Manatee %
Mitt Romney 387 63.96%
Newt Gingrich 141 21.69%
Rick Santorum 47 7.77%
Ron Paul 20 3.31%
All others 10 1.65%
Sarasota %
Mitt Romney 965 71.64%
Newt Gingrich 259 19.22%
Rick Santorum 72 5.34%
Ron Paul 41 3.05%
All others 10 0.74%