St. Augustine: who represents it, and who is running

2026 General Election (Florida) with the City of St. Augustine Commission election (Seat 5) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (special election for the Rubio seat, held by appointee Ashley Moody); U.S. Representative FL-5; Governor and Lieutenant Governor (open), Attorney General, CFO, Commissioner of Agriculture; Florida House HD-19 (no State Senate race - SD-7 is up in 2028); judicial offices; St. Johns County School Board District 4 (not captured). City of St. Augustine: Commission Seat 5 (open - Matt Brown vs Julie Settle). Seat 3/Mayor was settled at qualifying (Cynthia Garris, sole qualifier) and Seat 4 at the 2026-08-18 primary (Ashleigh Barnes, 60.43%)..

Holding office11
the sitting council
On the ballot18
4 sitting members running again

The official candidate list ↗ · What St. Augustine is like — the /local page

Congressional district (city hall): Florida's 5th congressional district (City Hall, 75 King St., at 29.8925, -81.3150; all 22 in-city grid points) — John H. Rutherford (Republican)

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Mayor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Nancy Sikes-Kline ✉️ Elected Mayor Independent City of St. Augustine
Cynthia Garris ✉️ Elected acclaimed Commissioner → Running for Mayor Independent City of St. Augustine
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Commissioner — Seat 5

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Jim Springfield ✉️ Elected Commissioner Independent Seat 5 City of St. Augustine
Julie Settle ✉️ Commissioner Running Independent Seat 5 St. Johns County Supervisor of Elections
Matt Brown Commissioner Running Independent Seat 5 St. Johns County Supervisor of Elections
3

Commissioner

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Jon DePreter ✉️ Elected Commissioner Independent Seat 1 City of St. Augustine
4

Vice Mayor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Barbara Blonder ✉️ Elected Vice Mayor Independent Seat 2 City of St. Augustine
5

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
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State Representative — HD-19

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Sam Greco Elected State Representative → Running Republican Florida House of Representatives
Suzanna Pavelle ✉️ State Representative Running Democratic Florida Division of Elections
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State Senator — SD-7

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Tom Leek Elected State Senator Republican The Florida Senate
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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
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U.S. Representative — FL-5

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
John H. Rutherford Elected U.S. Representative → Running Republican U.S. House of Representatives
Rachel Grage 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 (federal and state): Florida Division of Elections Candidate Tracking System, 2026 General Election, County = St. Johns, Status = ALL (except WIT/DNQ), retrieved 2026-10-31 by the form's POST (robots.txt 404). Kept: Qualified candidates who won or had no primary for U.S. Senate, FL-5, Governor, HD-19. Dropped: primary losers and write-ins (FL-5 William Lintag Upham WRI; Governor Kathy Anderson, Erik Morris WRI). The county's list also covers FL-6, HD-18 and HD-20 (other parts of St. Johns County) - not recorded, since the city lies wholly in FL-5 / HD-19. Cross-checked against the St. Johns County SOE's 'November 3, 2026 General Election Candidates' PDF (dated 09.17.26): same names for every recorded race.
  • City candidates: St. Johns County SOE 'Candidate List and Reports' page (votesjc.gov/candidate-list-and-reports; robots.txt 'User-agent: *' with no disallow, Content-Signal ai-input=yes) links the November list (09.17.26) and '2026 Qualified Candidates (Updated)' (08-18-26). Qualified: Seat 3/Mayor - Cynthia Garris only; Seat 4 - Ashleigh Barnes, Cindy Golos-Guergawi, Ko Robins; Seat 5 - Matt Brown, Julie Settle. Only Seat 5 is on the November list. The SOE's Election Night Reporting for the 2026-08-18 Primary (enr.electionsfl.org/STJ/4011/Summary/, robots.txt 404; 'last updated 08/26/2026') shows St. Augustine Commission Seat 4: Ashleigh Barnes 1,848 (60.43%), Ko Robins 916 (29.95%), Cindy Golos-Guergawi 294 (9.61%) - Barnes won outright and takes Seat 4 when Garris's term expires (December 2026); she is not a row here because she is neither a sitting member nor on a pending ballot.
  • Both SOE PDFs are on irp.cdn-website.com (the SOE's site-builder file host), whose robots.txt request returned an S3 'AccessDenied' (403), i.e. no robots file served; the PDFs print candidates' street addresses, phones and emails - none copied except one campaign-domain and one campaign-named email.
  • Sitting commission: City of St. Augustine 'Mayor and Commissioners' page and each member page (citystaug.com, read 2026-10-31). citystaug.com robots.txt has a named ClaudeBot / Claude-SearchBot group repeating the site-wide disallows (search, calendar, RSS, bids, FAQ, admin) - none used; 10-second spacing kept. Mayor Nancy Sikes-Kline (Seat 3, 2-year term expires December 2026), Vice Mayor Barbara Blonder (Seat 2, to Dec 2028), Jon DePreter (Seat 1, to Dec 2028), Cynthia Garris (Seat 4, to Dec 2026), Jim Springfield (Seat 5, to Dec 2026). Agrees with the SOE's Elected Officials Guide (updated 02/24/2026). Official @citystaug.com emails as linked on each page; City phones and P.O. box not copied. Next municipal election: 2028 (Seats 1, 2 and the 2-year Mayor seat).
  • Districts: Census geocoder at City Hall gives CD-5, SD-7, HD-19 (St. Augustine city, St. Johns County). A 9x9 grid kept 22 in-city points: all CD-5, SD-7, HD-19 on both vintages. Coarse.
  • Sitting members: Rutherford (FL-5) from house.gov/representatives; Senators Scott and Moody from the CC0 @unitedstates file; Leek from flsenate.gov/Senators/s7 (Crawl-delay 10 honoured); Greco from the flhouse.gov Representatives list. Governor DeSantis reuses the us-jacksonville reading (flgov.com robots.txt disallows Claude agents).
  • standsFor null for everyone. Nothing accepted, requested or emailed; one User-Agent throughout.
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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.