{"id":423199,"date":"2026-10-09T11:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423199\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T11:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:44:09","slug":"guide-to-broward-countys-2026-election-races-candidates-and-questions-sun-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423199\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide to Broward County\u2019s 2026 election races, candidates and questions \u2013 Sun Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in Broward County will have many statewide, county and municipal races and questions on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/politics\/election\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 General Election<\/a> ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Mail-in ballots must be requested by 5 p.m. Oct. 22 and returned by 7 p.m. Nov. 3 (postmarks don\u2019t count). Early, in-person voting will be held from Oct. 19-Nov. 1. Votes can be cast at any early voting site in the county. Early voting is open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>On Election Day on Nov. 3, neighborhood polling stations are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a list of races and candidates. In races where the Sun Sentinel Editorial Board made a recommendation, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/opinion\/endorsements\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">endorsement<\/a> link is provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voters in Broward County will have many statewide, county and municipal races and questions on their 2026 General&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,11864,76771,4555,8904,19412,16484,2715,28,249,251,250,16433,686,114,8229,4014,8701,17845,28453,24239,115,19924,8230,23344,96277,6920,5074,99,8928,109,81180,45058,4243,147852,93425,15353,49572],"class_list":["post-423199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward-county","tag-coconut-creek","tag-cooper-city","tag-coral-springs","tag-dania-beach","tag-davie","tag-deerfield-beach","tag-elections","tag-florida","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-hallandale","tag-hollywood","tag-latest-headlines","tag-lauderdale-by-the-sea","tag-lauderdale-lakes","tag-lauderhill","tag-lighthouse-point","tag-margate","tag-miramar","tag-news","tag-north-lauderdale","tag-oakland-park","tag-parkland","tag-pembroke-park","tag-pembroke-pines","tag-plantation","tag-politics","tag-pompano-beach","tag-social","tag-southwest-ranches","tag-sunrise","tag-tamarac","tag-taramac","tag-west-park","tag-weston","tag-wilton-manors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}