Gainesville: who represents it, and who is running
U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices), with a possible City of Gainesville run-off votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (special election for the Rubio seat, held by appointee Ashley Moody); U.S. Representative FL-3; Governor and Lieutenant Governor (open seat), Attorney General, CFO, Commissioner of Agriculture; Florida Senate SD-6 (city hall); Florida House HD-22 (Johnson v Trask) and HD-10 elsewhere in Alachua — HD-21 (city hall) was decided unopposed at qualifying; judicial retention; Alachua County races. City of Gainesville: regular election was 2026-08-18 (Mayor At-Large, Districts 2, 3, 4) with any run-off on 2026-11-03 — whether a run-off is on the ballot could not be confirmed from an official source..
Holding office13
the sitting council
On the ballot26
3 sitting members running again
The official candidate list ↗ · What Gainesville is like — the /local page
Congressional district (city hall): Florida's 3rd congressional district (covers the whole city) — Kat Cammack (Republican)
1
Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvey Ward ✉️ Elected | Mayor | Independent | City of Gainesville |
2
City Commissioner
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bryan Eastman ✉️ Elected | City Commissioner | Independent | District 4 | City of Gainesville |
| Casey Willits ✉️ Elected | City Commissioner | Independent | District 3 | City of Gainesville |
| Cynthia Chestnut ✉️ Elected | City Commissioner | Independent | At-Large Seat B | City of Gainesville |
| Desmon Duncan-Walker ✉️ Elected | City Commissioner | Independent | District 1 | City of Gainesville |
| Ed Book ✉️ Elected | City Commissioner | Independent | District 2 | City of Gainesville |
| James Ingle ✉️ Elected | City Commissioner | Independent | At-Large Seat A | City of Gainesville |
3
Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | 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 | No Party Affiliation | Florida Division of Elections | |
| David Jolly | Governor Running | Democratic | Florida Division of Elections | |
| Dean Ocean Abrams | Governor Running | No Party Affiliation | Florida Division of Elections | |
| Frank J. Russo | Governor Running | No Party Affiliation | Florida Division of Elections | |
| Jeffrey Peter "Dr. Jeff" Datto | Governor Running | No Party Affiliation | Florida Division of Elections | |
| Moliere "Moe" Dimanche | Governor Running | No Party Affiliation | Florida Division of Elections | |
| Scott Eckhard Jewett | Governor Running | Libertarian | Florida Division of Elections |
4
Lieutenant Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benjiman Rojas | Lieutenant Governor Running | No Party Affiliation | Florida Division of Elections | |
| Bryan Avila | Lieutenant Governor Running | Republican | Florida Division of Elections | |
| Gwen Graham | Lieutenant Governor Running | Democratic | Florida Division of Elections | |
| Joe Van Vactor | Lieutenant Governor Running | No Party Affiliation | Florida Division of Elections | |
| Juan Santana | Lieutenant Governor Running | No Party Affiliation | Florida Division of Elections | |
| Nicole Skelly | Lieutenant Governor Running | Libertarian | Florida Division of Elections | |
| Rachel Rodriguez | Lieutenant Governor Running | No Party Affiliation | Florida Division of Elections | |
| Ruben A. Coto | Lieutenant Governor Running | No Party Affiliation | Florida Division of Elections |
5
State Representative — HD-21
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yvonne Hayes Hinson Elected | State Representative | Democratic | Florida House of Representatives | |
| Jacquelyn "Jackie" Randall | State Representative Running | Democratic | Florida Division of Elections |
6
State Senator — SD-6
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jennifer Bradley Elected | State Senator → Running | Republican | The Florida Senate | |
| Jason Bellamy-Fults | State Senator Running | Democratic | Florida Division of Elections | |
| Joseph Thornton | State Senator Running | ASP | Florida Division of Elections |
7
U.S. Senator
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rick Scott Elected | U.S. Senator | Republican | @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov not used (HTTP 403 even for 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 even for robots.txt in earlier runs) | |
| Angie Nixon | U.S. Senator Running | Democratic | Florida Division of Elections | |
| Neil J. Gillespie | U.S. Senator Running | No Party Affiliation | Florida Division of Elections |
8
U.S. Representative — FL-3
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kat Cammack Elected | U.S. Representative → Running | Republican | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Mike Klein | U.S. Representative Running | No Party Affiliation | Florida Division of Elections | |
| Seth Harp | U.S. Representative Running | Democratic | Florida Division of Elections |
i
Notes on this record
How the lists were read, and what could not be.
- Candidates (federal and state): Florida Division of Elections Candidate Tracking System, 2026 General Election (elecid 20261103-GEN), County = Alachua, Status = ALL (except WIT/DNQ), Office = ALL, retrieved 2026-11-01 (dos.elections.myflorida.com robots.txt 404 = no rules). Kept Qualified/Unopposed for U.S. Senate, FL-3, Governor (with Lt Governor running mates as printed after the slash) and the city-hall seats SD-6 and HD-21. Dropped: Defeated (primary losers), write-ins (WRI: Kathy Anderson/Daniel Nokovich and Erik Morris/LeRoy Alaways for Governor; Kyle 'KC' Gibson for Agriculture; James Hunter Batley HD-10), Cabinet (AG Uthmeier REP v Rodriguez DEM; CFO Ingoglia REP v Taddeo DEM; Agriculture Simpson REP v Mendoza Atkins DEM), judicial, and HD-10 (Rawson REP v Malwitz Jipson DEM) and HD-22 (Chad Johnson REP incumbent v Amy Trask DEM). Party codes as printed (REP, DEM, NPA, LPF, ASP). Candidate detail pages (which print addresses) not opened.
- Districts: Census geocoder at City Hall gives FL-3, SD-6, HD-21. A 6x6 grid (21 points inside 'Gainesville city'): FL-3 21/21; SD-6 15 / SD-9 6; HD-21 13 / HD-22 8. SD-9 is not on the 2026 Alachua list. HD-22 (Chad Johnson, R, sitting; flhouse.gov) is on the ballot but is not city hall's seat — not listed as people.
- Municipal: Mayor and six Commissioners from gainesvillefl.gov City Commission page (robots allows; retrieved 2026-11-01), with the official gainesvillefl.gov emails printed there (the shared office phone not copied). The Commission has seven members: four district, two at-large, and the mayor. No other city-wide elected office is named.
- City election: the City Clerk's 'Upcoming City Election' page says 'The City of Gainesville regular election is on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026, for the Mayor At-Large seat, City Commissioner District 2, City Commissioner District 3 and City Commissioner District 4 seats. City elections were changed to be held every other year in even-numbered years ... administered by the Alachua County Supervisor of Elections Office'; 'Gainesville Run-Off Election (if needed): Nov. 3, 2026'. Its 'Candidates for Office' list: Mayor — James Lesesne, Jr., Harvey L. Ward, Jr., Evan Morgan Moon; District 2 — Nelida Jean Baptiste-Pellot, Wyatt Clark Zintiz, Nathan Crabbe; District 3 — Casey Willits, Dejeon Cain, Billy Rohan (Withdrawn), James Walton Gardner; District 4 — Bryan Eastman (only name). The August results and any November run-off could NOT be read: www.votealachua.gov (Alachua County Supervisor of Elections) answers robots.txt with HTTP 403, and www.voterfocus.com (its candidate vendor) answered robots.txt with 503 'maintenance'. A web search found a student-newspaper report (Independent Florida Alligator, dated 2026-08-23) that Nathan Crabbe won District 2 and incumbent Casey Willits won District 3; the mayoral outcome was not visible. News only — not used for anyone's status, so no Gainesville candidate is recorded as running. New terms begin in January 2027; the next regular city election after 2026 is in 2028 (at-large seats A and B and District 1 — inferred from the even-year cycle).
- Federal officeholders: Senators from the CC0 legislators-current.json; FL-3 from house.gov/representatives. Governor DeSantis row reused from the 2026-10-15 jacksonville reading via us-tallahassee (flgov.com disallows Claude agents). SD-6 from flsenate.gov/Senators (robots allows; Crawl-delay 10 honoured); HD-21 from the flhouse.gov Representatives list (robots allows; 'Hinson, Yvonne Hayes — Democrat — District: 21 — Parts of Alachua, Marion — 11/06/24 - 11/03/26').
- standsFor null for everyone. No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. One User-Agent throughout.
s
Sources
Prepared 2026-11-01. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.
- Florida Division of Elections — Candidate Tracking System, 2026 General Election (20261103-GEN), County = Alachua, Status = ALL (except WIT/DNQ) 23
- City of Gainesville — City Commission 7
- @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov not used (HTTP 403 even for robots.txt in earlier runs) 2
- Executive Office of the Governor of Florida (as read 2026-10-15 for us-jacksonville; not re-read) 1
- Florida House of Representatives — Representatives list 1
- The Florida Senate — Senators (2024-2026) 1
- U.S. House of Representatives — Directory of Representatives 1