Fort Lauderdale: who represents it, and who is running

U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) and City of Fort Lauderdale special municipal election (Commission District 1) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (special election for the Rubio seat, held by appointee Ashley Moody); U.S. Representatives for FL-20 (2026 map; seat currently vacant) and FL-25; Governor and Lieutenant Governor (open seat), Attorney General, CFO, Commissioner of Agriculture; Florida Senate SD-32 (city hall; SD-37, which also covers part of the city, is not on the ballot); Florida House HD-100 (city hall, open) and HD-101 (contested) — HD-97, HD-98 and HD-99, which also cover parts of the city, were decided unopposed and are not on the ballot; judicial retention (Supreme Court, 4th DCA) and Circuit Judge Group 52; three state constitutional amendments, Broward County Questions 1-3 and a School Board one-mill levy question; and the City of Fort Lauderdale: special election for Commission District 1 (Heather Moraitis v. John E. Rodstrom) plus Fort Lauderdale Questions 1-10..

Holding office12

the sitting council

On the ballot23

4 sitting members running again

The official candidate list ↗ · What Fort Lauderdale is like — the /local page

Congressional district (city hall): City hall (100 N Andrews Ave; city offices now at 1 E Broward Blvd, both 26.1233 N, 80.1435 W) is in Florida's 23rd congressional district on the current (119th) map and the 20th on the 2026 (120th) map; the city spans FL-20, FL-23 and FL-25 (119th) and FL-20 and FL-25 (2026) — Jared Moskowitz (Democratic)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Dean J. Trantalis Elected	Mayor	Independent		City of Fort Lauderdale

City Commissioner — District 1

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
John C. Herbst Elected	City Commissioner	Independent	District 1	City of Fort Lauderdale
Heather T. Moraitis	City Commissioner Running	Independent	District 1	City of Fort Lauderdale City Clerk
John E. Rodstrom	City Commissioner Running	Independent	District 1	City of Fort Lauderdale City Clerk

City Commissioner

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Pamela Beasley-Pittman Elected	City Commissioner	Independent	District 3	City of Fort Lauderdale
Steven Glassman Elected	City Commissioner	Independent	District 2	City of Fort Lauderdale

Vice Mayor / City Commissioner

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Ben Sorensen Elected	Vice Mayor / City Commissioner	Independent	District 4	City of Fort Lauderdale

Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Ron DeSantis Elected	Governor	Republican	MyFlorida.gov
Byron Donalds	Governor Running	Republican	Broward County Supervisor of Elections
Charles Burkett	Governor Running	Independent	Broward County Supervisor of Elections
David Jolly	Governor Running	Democratic	Broward County Supervisor of Elections
Dean Ocean Abrams	Governor Running	Independent	Broward County Supervisor of Elections
Frank J. Russo	Governor Running	Independent	Broward County Supervisor of Elections
Jeffrey Peter "Dr. Jeff" Datto	Governor Running	Independent	Broward County Supervisor of Elections
Moliere "Moe" Dimanche	Governor Running	Independent	Broward County Supervisor of Elections
Scott Eckhard Jewett	Governor Running	Libertarian	Broward County Supervisor of Elections

State Representative — HD-100

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Chip LaMarca Elected	State Representative	Republican	Florida House of Representatives
Michael Terence Ferguson	State Representative Running	Democratic	Broward County Supervisor of Elections
Yoni Anijar	State Representative Running	Republican	Broward County Supervisor of Elections

State Senator — SD-32

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Rosalind Osgood Elected	State Senator → Running	Democratic		The Florida Senate
Crescente Furnaguera	State Senator Running	Independent		Broward County Supervisor 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 returned HTTP 403 even for robots.txt
Ashley Moody Elected	U.S. Senator → Running	Republican	@unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov returned HTTP 403 even for robots.txt
Angie Nixon	U.S. Senator Running	Democratic	Broward County Supervisor of Elections
Neil J. Gillespie	U.S. Senator Running	Independent	Broward County Supervisor of Elections

U.S. Representative — FL-20

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Debbie Wasserman Schultz Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic	U.S. House of Representatives
Brent Andersen	U.S. Representative Running	Republican	Broward County Supervisor of Elections
Kedner Maxime	U.S. Representative Running	Independent Party of Florida	Broward County Supervisor of Elections

U.S. Representative — FL-25

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Jared Moskowitz Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic	U.S. House of Representatives
Peter Jassenoff	U.S. Representative Running	Libertarian	Broward County Supervisor of Elections
Scott Singer	U.S. Representative Running	Republican	Broward County Supervisor of Elections

Notes on this record

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

Municipal: fortlauderdale.gov robots.txt disallows the whole /Government/City-Commission/ section, so no commission member page, photo or email was read. Names and seats are taken from allowed pages only: the site's Government menu (served on every page, read on the Website Policy page) lists 'Mayor Dean J. Trantalis, Commissioner John C. Herbst, Commissioner Steven Glassman, Commissioner Pamela Beasley-Pittman, Vice Mayor/Commissioner Ben Sorensen'; the district numbers come from the page slugs in the City's sitemap.xml (e.g. 'Commissioner-Pamela-Beasley-Pittman-District-3') and Resolution No. 26-88 (Herbst = District 1); Resolution 26-88's roll call (adopted 2026-05-05) lists the same five. Their page URLs are recorded as website only. The City Clerk's Election Information page: 'The Mayor is elected at-large and the City Commissioners are elected from each of the four districts. The four-year terms run concurrently'; no other city-wide elected office (City Clerk David R. Soloman, City Attorney Shari L. McCartney are appointed). City offices are non-partisan.
City election 2026: Resolution No. 26-88 calls a special municipal election on 2026-11-03 for Commission District 1 because Commissioner John C. Herbst resigned effective 2026-11-02 at 11:59 p.m.; the winner serves 2026-12-01 to 2028-12-05. The City Clerk's 'Campaign Treasurer Reports for Commission District 1 Special Election' page lists Heather T. Moraitis (Qualified), John E. Rodstrom (Qualified) and Garry Patrick Smyth (Withdrawn). Smyth still appears on the Broward SOE list of candidates (PDF created 2026-10-01, presumably printed ballot); because the City Clerk — the qualifying officer — shows him Withdrawn he is not recorded. Next regular City election: quadrennial municipal general election Tuesday 2028-11-07 (Mayor and all four districts; Charter s.7.07). Fort Lauderdale Questions 1-10 are also on the Nov 3 ballot (texts not read).
Congressional districts: Census 2020 relationship file tab20_cd11920_place20_st12.txt (www2.census.gov, robots allows) puts Fort Lauderdale city land in FL-23 (44.5 km2), FL-20 (31.3 km2) and FL-25 (13.7 km2) on the 119th map. For the 2026 (120th) map the Census geocoder coordinates endpoint (robots.txt 404) was sampled on an 18x16 grid over 26.075-26.215 N, 80.215-80.090 W (288 points, ~0.8-0.9 km spacing): 128 fell in 'Fort Lauderdale city' — CD-20 (68), CD-25 (60); Senate SD-37 (69), SD-32 (59); House HD-100 (53), HD-99 (46), HD-98 (15), HD-101 (9), HD-97 (5). A small sliver of another district could be missed. City hall is FL-23 (119th, ACS2025 vintage) / FL-20 (120th), SD-32, HD-100 under both vintages.
Federal: FL-20 is VACANT — house.gov lists 'Cherfilus-McCormick, Sheila- Vacancy' and clerk.house.gov/members/FL20/vacancy says 'Representative Cherfilus-McCormick resigned on April 21, 2026' and the office continues under the Clerk; no FL-20 officeholder is recorded (she also appears as 'Defeated' in the 2026 primary on the Division of Elections list). Sitting members Moskowitz (FL-23) and Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) from house.gov (robots allows), cross-checked with the CC0 legislators-current.json; both are on the 2026 ballot in different districts (Moskowitz FL-25, Wasserman Schultz FL-20). Senators from legislators-current.json (senate.gov 403 even for robots.txt). No federal photos linked.
State: flgov.com not read (robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot/anthropic-ai/Claude-Web); Governor DeSantis from MyFlorida.gov. SD-32 Rosalind Osgood from flsenate.gov/Senators/s32 ('Party: Democrat'; crawl-delay 10 honoured), confirmed by the Broward SOE elected-officials page (32ND STATE SENATE, next election 11/2026). HD-100 Chip LaMarca (Republican) from the flhouse.gov representatives list (term 11/06/24-11/03/26) and the Broward SOE elected-officials page; he is not on the 2026 list, so HD-100 is open. Only city hall's districts are recorded as people. The Broward elected-officials page prints officeholders' addresses and phones; none copied.
Candidates: Broward SOE 'List of Candidates and Contests, November 3, 2026 General Election' (PDF created 2026-10-01; party as printed there, e.g. 'Republican Party', 'No Party Affiliation') is the ballot source; status cross-checked against the Florida Division of Elections Candidate Tracking System, 2026 General Election (elecid 20261103-GEN), County = Broward, Status = ALL except WIT/DNQ, read 2026-10-22 (robots.txt 404). Kept: Qualified candidates for U.S. Senate (special), FL-20, FL-25, Governor (running mate as printed on the Division list), SD-32 and HD-100. Dropped: primary losers ('Defeated'), write-ins (Patricia Gonzalez FL-24, Michaelangelo Hamilton FL-25, Kathy Anderson and Erik Morris for Governor, Kyle 'KC' Gibson Agriculture), Cabinet and judicial races, FL-22/24/26 (no sampled city point in them on the 2026 map), and other House seats. HD-97 (Lisa Dunkley), HD-99 (Daryl Nevroy Campbell) are 'Unopposed' in the general — elected at qualifying and not on the ballot; HD-98 Mitch Rosenwald also 'Unopposed' in the general; HD-101 (Cassel R *Incumbent v. Delmay D) is contested. FL-20 and FL-25 'Unopposed' in the Primary column means unopposed in the primary only. No detail (CanDetail) pages were opened; they print home addresses.
Robots/terms: fortlauderdale.gov (robots disallows /Government/City-Commission/; Website Policy read first — no automation ban, 'encourages and permits links'), browardvotes.gov (robots disallows only admin/search/user paths; disclaimer read first — public-service 'as is', no reuse licence), dos.elections.myflorida.com (robots 404), geocoding.geo.census.gov (robots 404), www2.census.gov (robots names other bots only), house.gov (allows), clerk.house.gov (robots 404), senate.gov (403), unitedstates.github.io (robots 404), flsenate.gov (allows /Senators/, crawl-delay 10), flhouse.gov (allows the representatives list; 'All rights reserved'), myflorida.gov (robots 404), flgov.com (not contacted; known disallow). One User-Agent throughout ('ResearchUpon-politics/1.0 (civic research; +https://researchupon.com)'). standsFor null for everyone (no candidate's own statement was read). No street address is in any person row.

Sources

Prepared 2026-10-22. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.