Florida turnout robust, South Florida not so much.

All but six of Florida’s 67 counties saw the highest turnout in years for a midterm election on Tuesday, according to preliminary tallies from the Florida Division of Elections.

While turnout in South Florida was higher than the last five midterm elections, Broward, MiamiDade and Palm Beach lagged behind most counties in the state.

Four of Florida’s counties that had higher turnout rates in the past — all in 2002 — are in the Panhandle, and had destruction from Hurricane Michael in October. They are Calhoun, Gulf, Liberty and Jackson counties. Supervisors of elections in those counties were allowed to adjust early voting and mail-in voting rules as a result of the storm.

Emergency shelters in Calhoun and Jackson counties remained open Wednesday morning.

The other two counties that didn’t top previous turnouts, based on data from midterm elections since 2002, were Clay and Flagler counties in northeast Florida.

Sumter County, about an hour northwest of Orlando and home of The Villages retirement community, had the highest turnout in the state Tuesday, at 78 percent. The other five that exceeded a 70 percent turnout rate were Jefferson, Collier, Franklin, St. Johns and Baker.

South Florida didn’t perform nearly as well. Preliminary tallies show Palm Beach County ranked 41st in the state at 61 percent; MiamiDade 60th at 56 percent, and Broward 62nd at 54 percent.

Statewide, voter turnout was 62 percent, the highest of the last five midterms.