The Fort Myers News-Press

Floridians woke up Friday morning still not knowing who their next governor, senator or agriculture commissioner is, come January.

With votes still being tallied, as of Friday afternoon, the governor’s race remained tight, a .44 percent difference, with Republican Ron DeSantis leading, 4,073,763 votes, to Democrat Andrew Gillum’s 4,037,761. That’s just 36,002 between them.

The margin between North Fort Myers real estate appraiser Matt Caldwell and Fort Lauderdale attorney Nikki Fried continued to shift in Fried's favor.

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Friday afternoon numbers show Democrat Fried leading Republican Caldwell by 3,120 votes.

These close margins are likely to trigger an automatic recount and potentially a manual count. An automatic recount happens when the difference is less than half a percentage point and a manual count possibly at less than 0.25 percent.

Caldwell, the Republican candidate who had declared victory Tuesday night, garnered 4,022,704 votes compared with to 4,025,824 ballots cast for Democrat Fried.

The deadline for county elections officials to report unofficial results to the state is noon Saturday.

Talk of a recount was also rampant in the U.S. Senate race pitting Gov. Rick Scott, the Republican candidate, against incumbent Bill Nelson, where the vote margin was at 0.18 percent Friday afternoon, with only 14,848 votes separating the candidates.

Scott had 4,095,771 votes compared to 4,080,923 votes for Nelson.

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