Broward County
Florida's second most populous county, a Democratic stronghold whose seat is Fort Lauderdale.
Broward's seat, Fort Lauderdale, is home to Debbie Wasserman Schultz, one of four Democrats Florida's congressional map of 4 May 2026 set out to unseat in a county Kamala Harris won with 58%.
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Refused DOJ monitors inside polling places in 2022
US Midterms 2026: Mentioned in: NAACP sues for DOJ poll-monitor recordsBackground
Broward County is one of the most reliably Democratic counties in Florida. Kamala Harris won it with 58% in 2024. Its seat, Fort Lauderdale, is the base of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, one of four Democratic incumbents targeted by Florida's 2026 congressional map.
Founded on 30 April 1915, the county lies between Miami-Dade to the south and Palm Beach County to the north. It had 1,944,375 residents at the 2020 census, second in Florida.
Broward is also one of three south-east Florida counties where the state refused, in November 2022, to let Justice Department monitors inside polling places, citing state law. A Republican-led state turned the federal access question the other way, and Broward's part in it was cited again in October 2026, in the NAACP's lawsuit seeking the monitor programme's paperwork.
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