Port Charlotte: 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: Moody v Nixon v Gillespie); U.S. Representative FL-17 (Steube v Montavon v Quirk); Governor and Lieutenant Governor (open seat) and the Cabinet; Florida House HD-75 (Nix Jr. v Butler) and HD-76; State Attorney and Public Defender, 20th Circuit; circuit judges; Charlotte County Commissioner Districts 2 and 4; School Board Districts 1 and 4; Airport Authority Districts 2 and 4; special districts. No Florida Senate seat (SD-27 not up). Port Charlotte has no municipal government..

Holding office6

the sitting council

On the ballot16

3 sitting members running again

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

Congressional district (city hall): Florida's 17th congressional district (all 12 grid points in the Port Charlotte CDP) — W. Gregory Steube (Republican)

Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	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	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

State Representative — HD-75

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Danny Nix Jr. Elected	State Representative → Running	Republican		Florida House of Representatives
Cynthia L. Butler	State Representative Running	Democratic		Florida Division of Elections

State Senator — SD-27

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Ben Albritton Elected	State Senator	Republican		The Florida Senate

U.S. Senator

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
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

U.S. Representative — FL-17

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
W. Gregory Steube Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Republican	@unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json)
Matthew Montavon	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic	Florida Division of Elections
Michael J. Quirk	U.S. Representative Running	Independent	Florida Division of Elections

Notes on this record

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

Port Charlotte is an unincorporated census-designated place (Census geocoder: Port Charlotte CDP, Port Charlotte CCD, Charlotte County) with no city government. Its local government is the Charlotte County Board of County Commissioners (five districts); Punta Gorda is the county's only city. NO county commissioners are recorded: www.charlottecountyfl.gov robots.txt has 'User-agent: ClaudeBot / Disallow: /' and 'User-agent: anthropic-ai / Disallow: /', so the commission page was not read; the Supervisor of Elections' 'Office Holders' and 'Local Candidates' pages are iframes from www.voterfocus.com, whose robots.txt answered HTTP 503 ('temporarily unavailable for maintenance') — treated as disallow, nothing used; dos.fl.gov answered robots.txt with HTTP 403. A web search (non-official) points to Christopher Constance (District 2) and Stephen R. Deutsch (District 4) as the commissioners whose terms end November 2026 — NOT recorded, as no official list could be read. Candidates for County Commission Districts 2 and 4 are therefore not recorded either.
Offices on the ballot: Florida Secretary of State 'Notice of General Election' for Charlotte County (files.floridados.gov/media/710250/2026_nge_cha_english.pdf, dated March 20, 2026; files.floridados.gov robots.txt answers HTTP 400 — no rules), retrieved 2026-11-01. Raw PDF deleted.
Candidates (federal and state): Florida Division of Elections Candidate Tracking System, 2026 General Election (elecid 20261103-GEN), Office Group ALL, Status 'ALL (except WIT/DNQ)', County = Charlotte, retrieved 2026-11-01 (no robots.txt — 404). Kept Qualified rows for U.S. Senate, FL-17, Governor (with running mates) and HD-75. Dropped Defeated, write-ins, Cabinet, State Attorney (Fox, unopposed), Public Defender (Smith, unopposed), judicial rows, and HD-76 (Oliver R inc v Carter D), which covers other parts of Charlotte County, not the CDP points sampled. Statewide rows (Senate, Governor, DeSantis, Scott) are the same names as in us-sarasota (2026-10-31) and were checked against the Charlotte list. Candidate detail pages (addresses) not opened.
Districts: Census geocoder at the /local centre (26.9915, -82.0809) returned Port Charlotte CDP, CD-17, SD-27 and HD-75. A 0.025-degree grid gave 12 points inside the CDP, all CD-17 / SD-27 / HD-75.
Federal officeholders from the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json (retrieved 2026-11-01). Governor DeSantis row reused from the 2026-10-15 us-jacksonville reading (flgov.com disallows Claude agents). flsenate.gov/Senators/s27 (Crawl-delay 10 honoured) shows Senator Ben Albritton, Republican. flhouse.gov Representatives list shows Danny Nix Jr., Republican, District 75.
standsFor null for everyone. No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. One web search used (to look for an alternative official county-commission list; none found).

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.