2024 election results: 77% voter turnout in Broward
Bonnie L Gross | Published on 1/15/2025
Voter turnout in Broward County: 77.04%
By Monica Elliott
Voter Services Chair
If you have been alarmed that voter turnout appears to be way below turnout for Palm Beach and Miami-Dade Counties, don't be. To have a legitimate comparison, you have to be sure you are comparing apples to apples and not apples to oranges. I spoke with Supervisor of Elections Joe Scott to determine why we were seeing a low turnout of 64.87% on the SOE website. Here is the explanation.
The official Florida Division of Elections webpage for election information is Florida Election Watch. When you go to that page, click on "County Reporting Status" and you will see a county by county breakdown. The third column in the table is labeled "Eligible Active Registered Voters."
Accompanying this article is a screen shot of the table. Voter turnout of eligible active registered voters was 77.04% in Broward County. In the same table, turnout for Miami-Dade County was 72.35% and turnout for Palm Beach County was 83.99%.
Again, the screenshot above from Florida Election Watch is showing ACTIVE registered voters.
Broward County SOE's website is using TOTAL number of eligible voters, both active and INACTIVE registered voters. An inactive voter is someone for whom undeliverable mail triggered an address confirmation final notice to which the voter did not respond within 30 days or which came back undeliverable. When that happens, the voter is designated as inactive. An inactive voter remains eligible to vote until he or she is removed from the official list of registered voters.
The SOE's website shows a lower turnout number of 64.87%, which is coming from all eligible voters.
Bottom line: If the right comparison is made for the 3-county area, we are right where we normally are (in the middle)!