TALLAHASSEE — A poll conducted last week by Public Policy Polling (PPP) found a majority of Floridians supports civil unions for same-sex couples.

A majority of Republicans (74 percent) support some form of legalized same-sex union, whether full-blown marriage or civil unions—surprisingly, even more so than Democrats (72 percent.) Independents overwhelmingly (80 percent) support legalized recognition for same-sex couples.

Deeper into the numbers, Democrats more strongly support same-sex marriage than civil unions (48 to 24 percent), with the reverse holding true for Republicans (with 53 percent favoring civil unions versus 25 percent favoring full marriage equality).

The margin of error for the poll—which was conducted via robo-call of 500 Florida voters between March 15 and 18—is 4.4 percent.