Ocala: who represents it, and who is running

U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (special election for the Rubio seat); U.S. Representative FL-3; Governor and Lieutenant Governor (open seat), Attorney General (Uthmeier v. Rodriguez), CFO (Ingoglia v. Taddeo), Commissioner of Agriculture; Florida House seats (City Hall HD-21 decided unopposed at qualifying: Jackie Randall); judicial and Marion County races. SD-9 not up. No confirmed City of Ocala office on this ballot..

Holding office12
the sitting council
On the ballot15
2 sitting members running again

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

Congressional district (city hall): Florida's 3rd congressional district (City Hall; the whole city on both the current and the 2026 map) — Kat Cammack (Republican)

1

Mayor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Ben Marciano ✉️ Elected Mayor Independent City of Ocala
2

City Council Member

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Barry Mansfield ✉️ Elected City Council Member Independent District 1 City of Ocala
Ire J. Bethea Sr ✉️ Elected City Council Member Independent City of Ocala
James P. Hilty Sr ✉️ Elected City Council Member Independent District 5 City of Ocala
Jay A. Musleh ✉️ Elected City Council Member Independent District 3 City of Ocala
Kristen M. Dreyer ✉️ Elected City Council Member Independent City of Ocala
3

Governor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
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
4

State Representative — HD-21

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Yvonne Hayes Hinson Elected State Representative Democratic Florida House of Representatives
Jacquelyn "Jackie" Randall acclaimed State Representative Running Democratic Florida Division of Elections
5

State Senator — SD-9

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Stan McClain Elected State Senator Republican The Florida Senate
6

U.S. Senator

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
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
7

U.S. Representative — FL-3

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Kat Cammack Elected U.S. Representative → Running Republican @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json)
Mike Klein U.S. Representative Running Independent Florida Division of Elections
Seth Harp U.S. Representative Running Democratic Florida Division of Elections
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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 = Marion, Status = ALL (except WIT/DNQ), Office = ALL, retrieved 2026-10-31 (no robots.txt — 404). Kept Qualified/Unopposed for U.S. Senate, FL-3, Governor (with running mates) and HD-21 (City Hall). Dropped: Defeated (primary losers), write-ins (WRI), Cabinet, judicial, and other Marion legislative seats (HD-20 Butler v. Sapp, HD-23 Baker v. Grow, HD-24 Chamberlin unopposed, HD-27 Ferrari v. Gentry; FL-6 Fine/Yonce/Parrott, which covers other parts of Marion County, not Ocala). Candidate detail pages (which print addresses) not opened.
  • Districts: City Hall geocodes to CD-3, SD-9, HD-21 (Census geocoder, '120th Congressional Districts' and '2026 State Legislative Districts' layers). Census relationship file tab20_cd11920_place20_st12.txt: Ocala city lies wholly in the current FL-3. A 0.02-degree grid gave 33 points inside Ocala city: all CD-3 and SD-9; House Districts 21 (11 points) and 24 (22 points). HD-24 is Ryan Chamberlin (REP), unopposed for 2026 per the Division list; only the City Hall seat is listed as people.
  • Municipal: www.ocalafl.gov answered robots.txt with an Akamai 'Access Denied' (HTTP 403), so the city site was not used. The Marion County Supervisor of Elections (www.votemarion.gov) answered robots.txt with a Cloudflare 'Attention Required' challenge — not used. Council members come from the City of Ocala's own Legistar (ocala.legistar.com; no robots.txt, 404), City Council body page, retrieved 2026-10-31: Mayor plus five council members with Legistar titles and dates (the dates appear to be officer terms, not electoral terms). Official ocalafl.gov emails as printed. Seat numbers are not printed there; District 1/3/5 come from news (WCJB 2025-07-18, 'Candidates successfully qualify for Ocala special election') and are marked as such.
  • City elections: Ocala ran a 2025 special municipal election (Sept 16, 2025) for Mayor and Districts 1, 3 and 5 after all candidates were disqualified over qualifying-fee payment (news: WCJB, Ocala News, Ocala Gazette). Districts 2 and 4 would be the next seats due; no official page could be reached to confirm a 2026 or 2027 date or candidates. theballotbrief.com claims Ocala City races on the 2026-11-03 ballot without names — unverified, not used.
  • Federal officeholders from the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json (unitedstates.github.io: no robots.txt). Senators Scott and Moody; Rep. Kat Cammack (FL-3). Governor DeSantis row reused from the 2026-10-15 jacksonville reading (flgov.com disallows Claude agents). State legislators from flsenate.gov (robots allows; Crawl-delay 10 honoured) and flhouse.gov Representatives list (robots allows).
  • No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. Legistar also lists a non-council person with a law-firm email; not used. standsFor null for everyone. Ballotpedia and Wikipedia not used; one web search (news) used only to find seat numbers and the city election history.
  • Hosts and one User-Agent throughout: 'ResearchUpon-politics/1.0 (civic research; +https://researchupon.com)'.
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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.