Brevard County is a county located in the east central portion of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census,the population was 606,612,making it the 10th-most populated county in Florida. The official county seat is located in Titusville. Brevard County comprises the Palm Bay–Melbourne–Titusville,FL Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is located along the east Florida coast and bordered by the Atlantic Ocean.
Cocoa is a city in Brevard County,Florida. The population was 19,041 at the 2020 United States Census. It is part of the Palm Bay–Melbourne–Titusville Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Rockledge is the oldest city in Brevard County,Florida. The city's population was 27,678 at the 2020 Census,up from 24,926 at the 2010 United States Census,and is part of the Palm Bay−Melbourne−Titusville Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Brevard Public Schools is a school district serving Brevard County,Florida,and based in Viera,Florida.
Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High School is a public junior/senior high school that is a part of the Brevard County Public School System with students in grades seven through twelfth located in Cocoa Beach,Florida. Founded in 1964 it is one of two high schools in Brevard county to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. The school's mascot is the Minuteman and current principal is Tim Powers.
Cocoa High School is high school located in Cocoa,Florida,and is part of the Brevard Public Schools District. The principal is Ms. Stewart.
Florida's 8th congressional district is an electoral district for the U.S. Congress and was reassigned in 2012,effective January 2013,from the inland central part of Florida to the central Atlantic coast. The district includes Titusville,Melbourne,Cocoa,and Cape Canaveral,Florida. The district includes all of Brevard County,as well as all of Indian River County and parts of Orange County. The district also includes the Kennedy Space Center.
Lake Poinsett is a lake in Brevard County,Florida,United States,near Rockledge and Cocoa,with small portions in Orange County and Osceola County. It is the second-largest lake in Brevard County,after Lake Washington,though it is actually the smallest lake in Osceola County. It is the widest lake in Brevard County,with a distance of 5 miles (8 km) at its widest point. At the eastern portion of the lake,a channel connects the lake to Lake Florence and Barnett Lake.
Chris Dorworth was a Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives,representing the 34th District,which consisted of a small amount of Orange County and western Seminole County,from 2007 to 2012. In 2012,he ran for re-election in the 29th District,and he lost in an upset to Democratic candidate Mike Clelland.
Thad Altman is a Republican politician who currently serves as a member of the Florida House of Representatives,representing parts of the Melbourne area in central Brevard County since 2016. Previously,he represented a similar area in the House from 2003 to 2008,and served in the Florida Senate from 2008 to 2016.
Space Coast Area Transit is the public transit system serving the communities in Brevard County,Florida.
Brevard County has a county government,municipal governments,and various Florida state and U.S. federal agencies.
Ben Albritton is a Republican politician,current member of the Florida Senate and a former member of the Florida House of Representatives,representing the 56th District,which includes DeSoto County,Hardee County,and southwestern Polk County,from 2012 to 2018. Albritton previously represented the 66th District from 2010 to 2012.
Travis Hutson is a Republican member of the Florida Senate,representing the 7th district,which includes Flagler,St. Johns,and northern Volusia County,since 2016. He previously represented the 6th district from 2015 to 2016. Hutson also served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2012 until he was elected to the Senate.
Mitch Needelman is a former member of the Florida House of Representatives serving as a Republican. He represented the 31st district from 2000 to 2008.
Winston W. "Bud" Gardner Jr. was an American politician in the state of Florida.
Bryan Avila is an American Republican politician who currently serves as a member of the Florida Senate,representing the 39th District. He previously served in the Florida House of Representatives,representing the 111th District,which includes parts of Miami and Hialeah in northeastern Miami-Dade County,since 2014. Avila will be term limited in 2022 and has announced his intention to run for Miami Dade County commission district 6.
Christopher Joseph Sprowls is an American attorney and Republican politician from Florida. He served as speaker of the Florida House of Representatives for the 2020–22 legislative term and represented the 65th District,which included Clearwater,Dunedin,and Tarpon Springs in northern Pinellas County,from 2014–22.
The 2018 Florida Commissioner of Agriculture election occurred on November 6,2018,to elect the Florida Commissioner of Agriculture. Incumbent Republican Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam was term-limited and could not seek a third consecutive term. Democrat Nikki Fried narrowly defeated Republican Matt Caldwell. Fried became the only statewide elected Democrat in Florida,as U.S. Senator Bill Nelson,who had held Florida's Class I U.S. Senate seat since 2000,lost reelection. As of 2023,this remains the last time that a Democrat has won a statewide election in Florida,and the only time since 2012.This is also the last time they won the job of Florida Agriculture Commisioner as well Nikki Fried is the last Democrat to hold any elected state Agriculture Commissioner office in the US.
William G. Akridge was an American judge,lawyer and politician. He served as a Democratic member of the Florida House of Representatives.
