Gulfport: who represents it, and who is running

U.S. general election (federal and judicial elections) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (Hyde-Smith seat); U.S. Representative, MS-4; nonpartisan judicial races by district. No Governor, Legislature or City of Gulfport office is on this ballot. The City Elections page says: "The next City of Gulfport Municipal Election will be held in 2029" and refers midterm questions to the Harrison County Circuit Clerk..

Holding office14
the sitting council
On the ballot6
2 sitting members running again

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

Congressional district (city hall): Mississippi's 4th congressional district (all sampled points, City Hall included) — Mike Ezell (Republican)

1

Mayor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Hugh D. Keating ✉️ Elected Mayor Independent City of Gulfport - Office of the Mayor
2

City Council Member

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
B.J. Sellers, Jr. ✉️ Elected City Council Member Independent Ward 5 City of Gulfport - City Council page
Bryan Caldwell ✉️ Elected City Council Member Independent Ward 2 City of Gulfport - City Council page
Carrissa Corbett ✉️ Elected City Council Member Independent Ward 6 City of Gulfport - City Council page
Ella Holmes-Hines ✉️ Elected City Council Member Independent Ward 3 City of Gulfport - City Council page
F.B. 'Rusty' Walker, IV Elected City Council Member Independent Ward 4 City of Gulfport - City Council page
Johnny Hoggatt ✉️ Elected City Council Member Independent Ward 7 City of Gulfport - City Council page
Kendal Lamar Buckner ✉️ Elected City Council Member Independent Ward 1 City of Gulfport - City Council page
3

Governor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Tate Reeves Elected Governor Republican Office of Governor Tate Reeves - official website
4

State Representative — HD-120

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Richard Bennett Elected State Representative Republican Mississippi Legislature - House member record (term 2024-2027)
5

State Senator — SD-49

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Joel R. Carter, Jr. ✉️ Elected State Senator Republican Mississippi Legislature - Senate member record (term 2024-2027) and Senate roster PDF
6

U.S. Senator

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Roger F. Wicker Elected U.S. Senator Republican @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json)
Cindy Hyde-Smith Elected U.S. Senator → Running Republican @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json)
Scott Colom U.S. Senator Running Democratic Mississippi Secretary of State - Sample Official Election Ballot, Federal and Judicial Election, November 3, 2026 (dated 9-9-26)
Ty Pinkins U.S. Senator Running Independent Mississippi Secretary of State - Sample Official Election Ballot, Federal and Judicial Election, November 3, 2026 (dated 9-9-26)
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U.S. Representative — MS-4

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Mike Ezell Elected U.S. Representative → Running Republican @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json)
Carl Boyanton U.S. Representative Running Independent Mississippi Secretary of State - Sample Official Election Ballot, Federal and Judicial Election, November 3, 2026 (dated 9-9-26)
Jeffrey Hulum III ✉️ U.S. Representative Running Democratic Mississippi Secretary of State - Sample Official Election Ballot, Federal and Judicial Election, November 3, 2026 (dated 9-9-26)
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Notes on this record

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

  • Candidates from the Mississippi SOS statewide composite sample ballot for November 3, 2026 (PDF dated 9-9-26; re-fetched 2026-10-31). Ballot labels 'Democrat'; partyShort normalised to Democratic. Write-ins skipped. Harrison County election pages were not read, so any county-only special contests are not captured.
  • Districts: Census geocoder. The address 2309 15th St (City Hall) matched only to '2309 15th Ave' (-89.0801, 30.3781: SD-48 / HD-119), which is a different location; four coordinate samples around 15th St and 23rd-24th Ave downtown (-89.091 to -89.095, 30.366-30.369) all return Gulfport / CD-4 / SD-49 / HD-120, and those are recorded as the City Hall districts. Other points in the city: (-89.06, 30.45) SD-49 / HD-118 (Greg Haney, R); 2309 15th Ave SD-48 (Mike Thompson, R) / HD-119 (Jeffrey Hulum III, D). No polygon overlay.
  • State legislators from billstatus.ls.state.ms.us member XML, retrieved 2026-10-31; Senate email as printed on the Senate roster PDF. Governor Tate Reeves, next election 2027.
  • Municipal: Mayor Hugh D. Keating and seven ward council members from gulfport-ms.gov (its robots.txt redirects to a cms3.revize.com per-site path that 404s; the revize host root robots disallows everything but documents, and no page on cms3.revize.com was fetched). Photos are the City Council page images, linked only. Ward 4 lists a business-domain address, left null. Last municipal general election June 3, 2025; next 2029 (City Elections page).
  • Phones printed on City and Legislature pages; none copied. standsFor null for everyone. Ballotpedia, Wikipedia and news were not used.
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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.