Sarasota: who represents it, and who is running

U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices), with the City of Sarasota General Election votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (special election for the Rubio seat); U.S. Representative FL-17 (Steube v. Montavon v. Quirk); Governor and Lieutenant Governor (open seat) and the Cabinet; Florida Senate SD-22 (open: Buchanan v. Wasserman v. Hyde); Florida House HD-73 (McFarland v. Klein); judicial retention; Sarasota County races; City of Sarasota City Commission, two At-Large seats (Ahearn-Koch, Entler, Harshman; Mayor Trice's at-large seat is open)..

Holding office11

the sitting council

On the ballot22

4 sitting members running again

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

Congressional district (city hall): Florida's 17th congressional district (City Hall; all of the city) — W. Gregory Steube (Republican)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Debbie Trice ✉️ Elected	Mayor	Independent		City of Sarasota

City Commissioner

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Kyle Battie ✉️ Elected	City Commissioner	Independent	District 1	City of Sarasota
Liz Alpert ✉️ Elected	City Commissioner	Independent	District 2	City of Sarasota
Jen Ahearn-Koch ✉️ Elected	City Commissioner → Running	Independent	At-Large	City of Sarasota
Flo Entler ✉️	City Commissioner Running	Independent	At-Large	City of Sarasota
John Harshman ✉️	City Commissioner Running	Independent	At-Large	City of Sarasota

Vice Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Kathy Kelley Ohlrich ✉️ Elected	Vice Mayor	Independent	District 3	City of Sarasota

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-73

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Fiona McFarland Elected	State Representative → Running	Republican		Florida House of Representatives
Lisa Klein	State Representative Running	Democratic		Florida Division of Elections

State Senator — SD-22

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Joe Gruters ✉️ Elected	State Senator	Republican	The Florida Senate
James Buchanan	State Senator Running	Republican	Florida Division of Elections
Lew Wasserman	State Senator Running	Democratic	Florida Division of Elections
Martin Hyde	State Senator Running	Independent	Florida Division of Elections

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.

Municipal: five commissioners from the City Commission page and each member page on www.sarasotafl.gov (robots.txt: User-agent * with path-specific disallows only, none on these pages; no ClaudeBot/anthropic-ai group), retrieved 2026-10-31. Three district seats and two at-large; nonpartisan; the Commission picks the Mayor and Vice Mayor each November. City-site emails and photo URLs recorded; the shared phone not copied.
City election: the City Auditor and Clerk "General Elections Candidates 2026" page lists Jen Ahearn-Koch, Flo Entler and John Harshman (all "Candidate for At-Large"), with Yevgeny Khodorkovsky and Rob Rominiecki marked "Eliminated" (August primary) and Jaime Loomis, Michael Bennett and Sherman Baldwin "Withdrawn". The page does not state the number of seats; both at-large members (Trice, Ahearn-Koch) have terms expiring 2026. Candidate pages print home/mailing addresses and phones — not copied. The Sarasota County Supervisor of Elections site (www.sarasotavotes.gov) answered robots.txt with a Cloudflare "Sorry, you have been blocked" page (HTTP 403), so no SOE sample ballot or results were used.
Candidates (federal and state): Florida Division of Elections Candidate Tracking System, 2026 General Election (elecid 20261103-GEN), County = Sarasota, Status = ALL, retrieved 2026-10-31 (no robots.txt — 404). Kept Qualified for U.S. Senate, FL-17, Governor (with running mates), SD-22 and HD-73. Dropped primary losers, Did Not Qualify, withdrawn, write-ins, Cabinet, judicial and county races.
Districts: Census geocoder at City Hall (1565 1st St) returned CD-17, SD-22 and HD-73 (120th Congress and 2026 State Legislative layers). A 0.015-degree grid gave 27 points inside the city, all CD-17 / SD-22 / HD-73. FL-16 (Vern Buchanan, not qualified for 2026; Sydney Gruters R v. Kelly Kirschner D v. Mark Davis NPA) and HD-74/75 cover other parts of Sarasota County, not the city points sampled.
Federal officeholders from the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json (session copy 2026-10-31; senate.gov not used). Governor DeSantis row reused from the 2026-10-15 us-jacksonville reading (flgov.com disallows Claude agents). flsenate.gov/Senators/s22 (Crawl-delay 10 honoured) still shows Joe Gruters as the SD-22 senator. flhouse.gov Representatives list (session copy 2026-10-31).
standsFor only for Flo Entler (her candidate-supplied statement on the City page). No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded; Ahearn-Koch's campaign Gmail (JenforSarasota@) is as printed on the City candidate page. No web searches used for Sarasota. One User-Agent throughout.

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.