Daytona Beach: who represents it, and who is running

U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) with the City of Daytona Beach Regular Municipal Election votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (special election for the Rubio seat); U.S. Representative FL-6; Governor and Lieutenant Governor (open seat) and the Cabinet; Florida Senate SD-8 (open seat) and House HD-28; judicial and Volusia County races; City of Daytona Beach Commissioner Zone 1 (Navarra v. Paris) and Zone 3 (May v. Miller), and a charter referendum, 'LIMITATION ON RECLAIMED BLACKWATER USE BY THE CITY OF DAYTONA BEACH'S WATER UTILITY SYSTEM' (Ordinance No. 2026-90). Zone 5 was decided at the 2026-08-18 municipal primary (Willie F. Williams 'Duly Elected')..

Holding office13

the sitting council

On the ballot24

5 sitting members running again

The official candidate list ↗ · What Daytona Beach is like — the /local page

Congressional district (city hall): Florida's 6th congressional district (City Hall; the whole city on both the current and the 2026 map) — Randy Fine (Republican)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Derrick L. Henry Elected	Mayor	Independent		City of Daytona Beach

City Commissioner — Zone 1

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Monica Paris ✉️ Elected	City Commissioner → Running	Independent	Zone 1	City of Daytona Beach
John Navarra	City Commissioner Running	Independent	Zone 1	City of Daytona Beach

City Commissioner — Zone 3

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Quanita May Elected	City Commissioner → Running	Independent	Zone 3	City of Daytona Beach
Steven Miller	City Commissioner Running	Independent	Zone 3	City of Daytona Beach

City Commissioner

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Dannette Henry Elected	City Commissioner	Independent	Zone 5	City of Daytona Beach
Ken Strickland Elected	City Commissioner	Independent	Zone 2	City of Daytona Beach
Paula R. Reed Elected	City Commissioner	Independent	Zone 6	City of Daytona Beach
Stacy Cantu Elected	City Commissioner	Independent	Zone 4	City of Daytona Beach

Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Ron DeSantis Elected	Governor	Republican	Executive Office of the Governor of Florida (as read 2026-10-15 for us-jacksonville; not re-read)
Byron Donalds	Governor Running	Republican	Florida Division of Elections
Charles Burkett	Governor Running	Independent	Florida Division of Elections
David Jolly	Governor Running	Democratic	Florida Division of Elections
Dean Ocean Abrams	Governor Running	Independent	Florida Division of Elections
Frank J. Russo	Governor Running	Independent	Florida Division of Elections
Jeffrey Peter "Dr. Jeff" Datto	Governor Running	Independent	Florida Division of Elections
Moliere "Moe" Dimanche	Governor Running	Independent	Florida Division of Elections
Scott Eckhard Jewett	Governor Running	Libertarian	Florida Division of Elections

State Representative — HD-28

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Bill Partington Elected	State Representative → Running	Republican	Florida House of Representatives
Joseph "Joe" Hannoush	State Representative Running	Libertarian	Florida Division of Elections
Sammy Jackson	State Representative Running	Democratic	Florida Division of Elections

State Senator — SD-8

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Tom A. Wright Elected	State Senator	Republican	The Florida Senate
Gabriel Jude Wozniak	State Senator Running	Libertarian	Florida Division of Elections
Jake Johansson	State Senator Running	Republican	Florida Division of Elections
Judy M. Ngying	State Senator Running	Democratic	Florida Division of Elections

U.S. Senator

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Rick Scott Elected	U.S. Senator	Republican	@unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov not used (HTTP 403 on robots.txt in earlier runs)
Ashley Moody Elected	U.S. Senator → Running	Republican	@unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov not used (HTTP 403 on robots.txt in earlier runs)
Angie Nixon	U.S. Senator Running	Democratic	Florida Division of Elections
Neil J. Gillespie	U.S. Senator Running	Independent	Florida Division of Elections

U.S. Representative — FL-6

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Randy Fine Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Republican	@unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json)
Andrew Parrott	U.S. Representative Running	Libertarian	Florida Division of Elections
Eric Yonce	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic	Florida Division of Elections

Notes on this record

How the lists were read, and what could not be.

Candidates: Florida Division of Elections Candidate Tracking System, 2026 General Election (elecid 20261103-GEN), County = Volusia, Status = ALL (except WIT/DNQ), retrieved 2026-10-31 (no robots.txt — 404). Kept Qualified for U.S. Senate, FL-6, Governor (with running mates), SD-8 and HD-28 (City Hall). Dropped: Defeated, write-ins (WRI: Alec Pavlik FL-6; Kathy Anderson, Erik Morris Governor), Cabinet, judicial, FL-7 (Dalton, Dennison, Elijah — not in the city) and other Volusia legislative seats.
Municipal: City Commission from https://www.daytonabeach.gov/384/City-Commission (www.codb.us redirects there; both robots.txt files are identical; a ClaudeBot group exists and does not disallow these paths; the general Crawl-delay 10 was honoured between pages). Page text: 'The City Commission of Daytona Beach consists of seven elected officials - one mayor and six zone commissioners. They each serve four-year terms, and elections are staggered on even-numbered years.' 2026 candidates from the City Clerk's '2026 Municipal Elections Candidates' PDF (updated 08-19-26); the Clerk's 'Call for Regular Municipal Election' says Commissioner Zone 1 and Zone 3 appear on the November 3, 2026 ballot; the 'Call for Regular Primary Municipal Election' (August 18, 2026) covered Zones 3 and 5. Zone 5: Willie F. Williams 'Duly Elected 08-18-26' (not yet on the Commission page; not a person row). Brittany Yisrael (Zone 5) Withdrawn. The Clerk list prints candidate phones and emails; phones never copied, and only the plainly campaign email (vote4monicaparis@) kept. Municipal offices non-partisan.
Districts: City Hall geocodes to CD-6, SD-8, HD-28. Census relationship file: Daytona Beach city wholly in current FL-6. A 0.02-degree grid gave 38 points in the city: all CD-6 and HD-28; SD-8 (37) and SD-7 (1). Only the City Hall seats listed.
Federal officeholders from the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json. Governor DeSantis row reused from the 2026-10-15 jacksonville reading (flgov.com disallows Claude agents). State legislators from flsenate.gov (Crawl-delay 10 honoured) and the flhouse.gov Representatives list.
Process slips (honest record): the first request to www.codb.us after reading its robots.txt guessed a wrong path (/97/City-Commission) that redirected to a login page on daytonabeach.ims16.com — that host's robots.txt was not requested first; nothing from it was used and no login attempted. Three pages were fetched via the codb.us → daytonabeach.gov redirect before daytonabeach.gov's robots.txt was requested separately; it proved identical and allows those paths.
No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. standsFor null for everyone. Ballotpedia, Wikipedia and news not used for this city. One User-Agent throughout: 'ResearchUpon-politics/1.0 (civic research; +https://researchupon.com)'.

Sources

Prepared 2026-10-31. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.