Hollywood: who represents it, and who is running
U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) and City of Hollywood General Municipal Election (Commission Districts 1, 3 and 5) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (special election, Moody seat); U.S. Representatives for FL-24, FL-25 and FL-26 (2026 map); Governor and Lieutenant Governor (open seat), Attorney General, CFO, Commissioner of Agriculture; Florida House HD-101 (contested; covers part of the city) — city hall's HD-105 was returned unopposed and SD-37/SD-35 are not on the ballot; judicial retention and Circuit Judge Group 52; School Board District 6 (if in district — not checked); constitutional amendments, Broward County Questions 1-3, School Board levy question; and the City of Hollywood General Municipal Election: Commission Districts 1, 3 and 5 (all three open — incumbents Shuham, Callari and Biederman did not qualify) plus Hollywood Questions 1 and 2 (texts not read)..
Holding office13
the sitting council
On the ballot28
3 sitting members running again
The official candidate list ↗ · What Hollywood is like — the /local page
Congressional district (city hall): City hall (2600 Hollywood Blvd; Census geocoder 26.0100 N, 80.1592 W) is in Florida's 25th congressional district on the current (119th) map — all of Hollywood city is in FL-25 — and the 24th on the 2026 (120th) map; a 12x18 Census-geocoder grid over the city puts it in FL-24, FL-25 and a small part of FL-26 on the 2026 map — Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Democratic)
1
Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josh Levy ✉️ Elected | Mayor | Independent | City of Hollywood |
2
Commissioner — District 1
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caryl S. Shuham ✉️ Elected | Commissioner | Independent | District 1 | City of Hollywood |
| Brian A. Paruas | Commissioner Running | Independent | District 1 | Broward County Supervisor of Elections |
| Catherine "Cat" Uden | Commissioner Running | Independent | District 1 | Broward County Supervisor of Elections |
| I. Feldman | Commissioner Running | Independent | District 1 | Broward County Supervisor of Elections |
3
Commissioner — District 3
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Recio | Commissioner Running | Independent | District 3 | Broward County Supervisor of Elections |
| David Raskind | Commissioner Running | Independent | District 3 | Broward County Supervisor of Elections |
4
Vice Mayor — District 3
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Traci L. Callari ✉️ Elected | Vice Mayor | Independent | District 3 | City of Hollywood |
5
Commissioner — District 5
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin D. Biederman ✉️ Elected | Commissioner | Independent | District 5 | City of Hollywood |
| Adam Roberti | Commissioner Running | Independent | District 5 | Broward County Supervisor of Elections |
| Erin Marvasti | Commissioner Running | Independent | District 5 | Broward County Supervisor of Elections |
6
Commissioner
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Gruber ✉️ Elected | Commissioner | Independent | District 4 | City of Hollywood |
| Idelma Quintana ✉️ Elected | Commissioner | Independent | District 6 | City of Hollywood |
| Peter D. Hernandez ✉️ Elected | Commissioner | Independent | District 2 | City of Hollywood |
7
Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | 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 |
8
State Representative — HD-105
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marie Paule Woodson Elected acclaimed | State Representative → Running | Democratic | Florida House of Representatives |
9
State Senator — SD-37
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason W. B. Pizzo Elected | State Senator | Independent | The Florida Senate |
10
U.S. Senator
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | 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 |
11
U.S. Representative — FL-20
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debbie Wasserman Schultz Elected | U.S. Representative → Running | Democratic | U.S. House of Representatives |
12
U.S. Representative — FL-24
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oliver G. Gilbert III | U.S. Representative Running | Democratic | Broward County Supervisor of Elections | |
| Te Mayonna Brown | U.S. Representative Running | Republican | Broward County Supervisor of Elections |
13
U.S. Representative — FL-25
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jared Moskowitz | U.S. Representative Running | Democratic | Broward County Supervisor of Elections | |
| Peter Jassenoff | U.S. Representative Running | Libertarian | Broward County Supervisor of Elections | |
| Scott Singer | U.S. Representative Running | Republican | Broward County Supervisor of Elections |
14
U.S. Representative — FL-26
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deborah Ann Meidinger Hosey | U.S. Representative Running | Independent | Broward County Supervisor of Elections | |
| Mario Diaz-Balart | U.S. Representative Running | Republican | Broward County Supervisor of Elections | |
| Nicole Locklin | U.S. Representative Running | Democratic | Broward County Supervisor of Elections |
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Notes on this record
How the lists were read, and what could not be.
- Municipal: City Commission page (hollywoodfl.org/89/City-Commission, read 2026-10-29) — 'the City Commission is comprised of the Mayor and six Commissioners. The Mayor is elected at large, and each of the six Commissioners is elected from a single geographic district'; names, districts, current terms, first-elected years, official @hollywoodfl.org emails and headshot links from 'Meet the Mayor & Commissioners'. No other city-wide elected office (City Clerk Patricia Cerny is appointed). Non-partisan.
- City election 2026: City Clerk Elections page — 'Seats Up for Election November 2026 - Commissioners Districts 1, 3 and 5. November 2028 - Mayor, Commissioners Districts 2, 4 and 6'; four-year staggered terms. The Clerk's 2026 Election page lists the qualified candidates (deadline noon 2026-06-12) and matches the Broward SOE ballot list: D1 Itzhack Feldman, Catherine Nicholas Uden, Brian Paruas; D3 David Raskind, Alex Recio; D5 Erin Marcelline Marvasti, Adam Gregory Roberti. None of the three incumbents qualified, so all three seats are open. The Clerk's page prints candidates' home addresses, phones and personal emails — none copied. Next city election: 2028-11 (Mayor, D2, D4, D6).
- Districts: Census 2020 relationship file tab20_cd11920_place20_st12.txt — Hollywood city (GEOID 1232000) lies wholly in CD-25 on the 119th map, so Debbie Wasserman Schultz is the only sitting U.S. Representative recorded. 2026 (120th) map: Census geocoder coordinates endpoint sampled on a 12x18 grid over 25.975-26.065 N, 80.255-80.110 W; 148 of 216 points answered (68 failed after one retry — the service was returning 502s), 68 fell in 'Hollywood city': CD-24 (40), CD-25 (25), CD-26 (3); Senate SD-37 (60), SD-35 (8); House HD-105 (34), HD-101 (34). Coverage is partial; a sliver of another district could be missed. City hall (2600 Hollywood Blvd, geocoded): CD-24 (120th), SD-37, HD-105.
- Federal: house.gov Directory (read 2026-10-29): FL-25 Wasserman Schultz (D); she is on the 2026 ballot in FL-20, which does not cover Hollywood on the new map, so FL-25 (2026 map) is an open contest here (Moskowitz v. Singer v. Jassenoff). FL-24 (Gilbert v. Brown) and FL-26 (Diaz-Balart v. Locklin v. Meidinger Hosey) candidates are recorded because sampled city points fall in them on the 2026 map. Senators and the U.S. Senate special-election candidates are copied from the us-fort-lauderdale record (same Broward list) and re-checked against today's Broward PDF and Division of Elections list; senate.gov not contacted.
- State: Governor DeSantis row reused from us-fort-lauderdale (MyFlorida.gov; flgov.com robots disallows Claude — not contacted). SD-37 Jason W. B. Pizzo from flsenate.gov/Senators/s37 ('Party: No Party Affiliation'; crawl-delay 10 honoured); SD-37 not on the 2026 ballot. HD-105 Marie Paule Woodson from the flhouse.gov representatives list (term 11/06/24-11/03/26); the Division of Elections list shows 'Woodson, Marie (DEM) *Incumbent — Unopposed', so she is returned without appearing on the ballot (counted in 'unopposed'). HD-101 (Hillary Cassel R, incumbent, v. Todd Delmay D) and SD-35 also cover parts of the city; only city hall's districts are recorded as people, per brief.
- Candidates: Broward SOE 'List of Candidates and Contests, November 3, 2026 General Election' (PDF created 2026-10-01; party as printed) is the ballot source; statuses checked against the Florida Division of Elections Candidate Tracking System (20261103-GEN, County BRO, Status ALL except WIT/DNQ, read 2026-10-29). Dropped: primary losers ('Defeated'), write-ins, Cabinet, judicial and school-board races. standsFor null for everyone (no candidate's own statement read).
- Robots/terms: hollywoodfl.org (robots names ClaudeBot in a group that disallows only admin/search/calendar/map/RSS endpoints; '*' crawl-delay 10 honoured; Legal Notice/Website Disclaimer read first — 'general informational purposes only', no warranty, no reuse licence or automation ban; the Copyright Notices page has no body text), browardvotes.gov (robots disallows /profiles/ etc., not /sites/default/files), dos.elections.myflorida.com (robots 404), geocoding.geo.census.gov (robots 404), www2.census.gov (names other bots only), house.gov (allows), flsenate.gov (allows /Senators/, crawl-delay 10), flhouse.gov (allows the list; 'All rights reserved'). One User-Agent throughout ('ResearchUpon-politics/1.0 (civic research; +https://researchupon.com)'). No street address of any person copied.
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Sources
Prepared 2026-10-29. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.
- Broward County Supervisor of Elections — List of Candidates and Contests, November 3, 2026 General Election (PDF created 2026-10-01) 25
- City of Hollywood — City Commission page ('Meet the Mayor & Commissioners') 7
- @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov returned HTTP 403 even for robots.txt 2
- The Florida Senate — Senator Pizzo (2024-2026 Senators; 'Party: No Party Affiliation') 1
- MyFlorida.gov — official State of Florida portal ('Governor Ron DeSantis'); flgov.com not read (robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai, Claude-Web) 1
- U.S. House of Representatives — Directory of Representatives (Florida) 1
- Florida House of Representatives — Representatives ('Woodson, Marie Paule Democrat — District: 105', term 11/06/24 - 11/03/26) 1