Miami-Dade County
Florida's most populous county, a majority-Hispanic county that contains the City of Miami.
Miami-Dade was among three Florida counties where the state barred Justice Department monitors from polling places in 2022, a precedent cited as the NAACP pressed the department on 5 October 2026 over its planned November monitors.
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Timeline for Miami-Dade County
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US Midterms 2026: Mentioned in: NAACP sues for DOJ poll-monitor recordsBackground
Miami-Dade County, whose seat is the City of Miami, is Florida's most populous county, with 2,701,767 residents at the 2020 census, seventh in the US. Some 68.7% were Hispanic. Created in 1836 as Dade County, it took its present name after a 1997 vote.
The Miami-area House seats of Carlos Giménez, Mario Díaz-Balart and María Elvira Salazar rest on large Cuban-American constituencies. The county has swung right: Joe Biden carried it in 2020, and Donald Trump won it in 2024, the first Republican to do so since 1988.
In November 2022 Florida refused to let Justice Department monitors inside polling places in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, citing state law. The Miami-Dade episode came back into view in October 2026, when the NAACP went to court over Washington's monitor files. The county also hosted matches of the 2026 World Cup at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, among them the record ten-goal bronze final.
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