 For most of its existence, the 2nd and its predecessors were centered in Tallahassee, the state capital and county seat of Leon County.While the adjacent 1st and 3rd congressional districts had become the most conservative districts in the state by the 1990s, the 2nd District was historically more of a swing district.With a large population of students, government workers and university faculty, Tallahassee was far more liberal than the rest of the district.