Handful of voters will pick next Florida member of Congress

Profile: 20th Congressional District

There are 459,780 registered voters in the District.

Of those, 62% are Democrats, 25% independent/no party affiliation, and 13% Republican.

President Joe Biden won 79.8% of the 2020 presidential vote in the district. In 2016, Democrat Hillary Clinton received 79.8%.

Broward is home to 71% of the voters; Palm Beach County 29%. (The Broward part of the district is about 10 percentage points more Democratic than the Palm Beach County portion.)

Under mid-1980s revisions to the federal Voting Rights Act, the boundaries were drawn to create a district that increases the chance that someone from a minority group can win the election and bring a voice that wouldn’t be otherwise heard to the halls of Congress. That helped the late U.S. Rep. Hastings win his first election, in 1992.

The district includes all or parts of Belle Glade, Cloud Lake, Fort Lauderdale, Glen Ridge, Haverhill, Lake Park, Lauderdale Lakes, Lauderhill, Loxahatchee Groves, Mangonia Park, Miramar, North Lauderdale, Oakland Park, Pahokee, Palm Beach Gardens, Parkland, Plantation, Pompano Beach, Riviera Beach, Royal Palm Beach, South Bay, Sunrise, Tamarac, West Palm Beach, Wellington and Weston.