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

U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) and City of St. Petersburg municipal general election votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (special election for the Rubio seat, held by appointee Ashley Moody); U.S. Representatives for FL-13 and FL-16 (2026 map); Governor and Lieutenant Governor (open seat), Attorney General, CFO and Commissioner of Agriculture; Florida House seats HD-60, HD-61, HD-62 (city hall HD-60, contested); Florida Senate SD-16 and SD-18 (SD-16 decided unopposed at qualifying); judicial retention and Pinellas County offices. City of St. Petersburg (non-partisan, same day): Mayor (Kenneth T. Welch v. Charlie Crist), Council District 2 (Courtney Bermudez v. Gabriel Hament) and District 6 (Linsey Grove v. Trevor Mallory); Districts 4 and 8 are also up for the 2027-2031 term but carry no general-election contest on the City's list..

Holding office16

the sitting council

On the ballot27

4 sitting members running again

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

Congressional district (city hall): Florida's 16th congressional district (city hall, 2026 map); currently represented by FL-13 and FL-14 (119th Congress map) — Anna Paulina Luna (Republican)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Kenneth T. Welch ✉️ Elected	Mayor → Running	Independent		City of St. Petersburg
Charlie Crist ✉️	Mayor Running	Independent		City of St. Petersburg City Clerk

City Council Member — District 2

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Brandi Gabbard ✉️ Elected	City Council Member	Independent	District 2	City of St. Petersburg
Courtney Bermudez	City Council Member Running	Independent	District 2	City of St. Petersburg City Clerk
Gabriel Hament ✉️	City Council Member Running	Independent	District 2	City of St. Petersburg City Clerk

City Council Member — District 6

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Gina Driscoll ✉️ Elected	City Council Member	Independent	District 6	City of St. Petersburg
Linsey Grove ✉️	City Council Member Running	Independent	District 6	City of St. Petersburg City Clerk
Trevor Mallory	City Council Member Running	Independent	District 6	City of St. Petersburg City Clerk

City Council Member

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Copley Gerdes ✉️ Elected	City Council Member	Independent	District 1	City of St. Petersburg
Corey Givens Jr. ✉️ Elected	City Council Member	Independent	District 7	City of St. Petersburg
Deborah Figgs-Sanders ✉️ Elected	City Council Member	Independent	District 5	City of St. Petersburg
Lisset Hanewicz ✉️ Elected	City Council Member	Independent	District 4	City of St. Petersburg
Mike Harting ✉️ Elected	City Council Member	Independent	District 3	City of St. Petersburg
Richie Floyd ✉️ Elected	City Council Member	Independent	District 8	City of St. Petersburg

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-60

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Lindsay Cross Elected	State Representative	Democratic	Florida House of Representatives
Lindsay Polega-Quigley	State Representative Running	Democratic	Florida Division of Elections
Melissa Rutland	State Representative Running	Republican	Florida Division of Elections

State Senator — SD-16

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Darryl Ervin Rouson Elected	State Senator	Democratic		The Florida Senate
Fentrice Driskell	State Senator Running	Democratic		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 returned HTTP 403 even for robots.txt (us-tampa, 2026-10-22)
Ashley Moody Elected	U.S. Senator → Running	Republican	@unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov returned HTTP 403 even for robots.txt (us-tampa, 2026-10-22)
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-13

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Anna Paulina Luna Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Republican	U.S. House of Representatives
Leela Gray	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic	Florida Division of Elections
Tony D'Arrigo	U.S. Representative Running	Independent	Florida Division of Elections

U.S. Representative — FL-14

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Kathy Castor Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic		U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Representative — FL-16

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Kelly Kirschner	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic	Florida Division of Elections
Mark Davis	U.S. Representative Running	Independent	Florida Division of Elections
Sydney Gruters	U.S. Representative Running	Republican	Florida Division of Elections

Notes on this record

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

Municipal: Mayor Kenneth T. Welch from the Mayor's Office page and the 8 district Council Members from https://www.stpete.org/government/mayor___city_council/city_council/index.php plus each district_N.php page (official stpete.org emails as printed; aides' emails and phones not copied), retrieved 2026-10-22. St. Petersburg elections are non-partisan (Charter: candidates cannot be a party nominee), party null. The charter creates no other city-wide elected office. Council chair Lisset Hanewicz (D4), vice-chair Richie Floyd (D8).
City election: the Candidate Rules & Information page (https://www.stpete.org/government/elections/candidate_rules.php) gives Primary August 18, 2026 and General November 3, 2026, for 'Mayor and City Council Districts 2, 4, 6, and 8', full four-year terms from the first Thursday of January 2027 to January 2031. The City Clerk's '(2026) Election – General Election Candidates' PDF dated August 24, 2026 lists Mayor: Charlie Crist, Kenneth T. Welch; District 2: Courtney Bermudez, Gabriel Hament; District 6: Linsey Grove, Trevor Mallory. Districts 4 and 8 do not appear; the handbook and Charter s.5.05 say a sole qualifying candidate is 'declared elected' and two candidates skip the primary, but the official page naming who qualified in D4/D8 (or whether a primary decided them) was not found — the Pinellas Supervisor of Elections site is blocked. Next City election after this: Districts 1, 3, 5, 7 in 2027 (odd/even stagger inferred from the 2026 seat list; not stated on a page read).
Candidates (state/federal): Florida Division of Elections Candidate Tracking System, 2026 General Election (elecid 20261103-GEN), County = Pinellas, Status = ALL (except WIT/DNQ), Office = ALL, retrieved 2026-10-22 (no robots.txt — 404). Kept: Qualified or Unopposed for U.S. Senate, U.S. House for the districts covering the city, Governor (with Lt. Governor running mate as printed), SD-16 and HD-60 (city hall). Dropped: Defeated (primary losers), write-ins (WRI: Kathy Anderson and Erik Morris for Governor; Kyle 'KC' Gibson for Agriculture), Cabinet races (outside the brief; on the ballot: AG Uthmeier v. Rodriguez, CFO Ingoglia v. Taddeo, Agriculture Simpson v. Mendoza Atkins), judicial, and the other Pinellas legislative seats (SD-18 DiCeglie v. Kemp; HD-57 to HD-62). HD-62 (covers part of the city) was decided unopposed: Kyandra Darling. A statewide U.S. House query confirmed Castor's FL-14 listing and that Vern Buchanan is not on the 2026 list.
Districts covering the city: city hall coordinates 27.7731, -82.6401 (Census geocoder, Current_Current vintage) are in the 120th (2026) Congressional District 16, State Senate District 16 and State House District 60. An 18 x 15 grid over 27.68-27.92 N, 82.56-82.77 W (270 points, about 1.5 km spacing) put 135 points in 'St. Petersburg city': 2026 CD-16 (91) and CD-13 (44); Senate SD-18 (69) and SD-16 (66); House HD-62 (57), HD-60 (47), HD-61 (31). The current (119th Congress) members come from the Census 2020 relationship file tab20_cd11920_place20_st12.txt (www2.census.gov, robots allows): St. Petersburg city land is in FL-13 (52.1 km2) and FL-14 (108.0 km2). So the city's current Representatives are Luna (FL-13) and Castor (FL-14), while its 2026 ballots carry FL-13 and the open FL-16. Only city hall's state seats are recorded as people.
U.S. Senate: only the special election for the Rubio seat is on the 2026 ballot (Moody REP incumbent, Nixon DEM, Gillespie NPA); Rick Scott's seat is not up. Senators from the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json (senate.gov 403s even robots.txt, per us-tampa). Representatives from https://www.house.gov/representatives (robots allows). No federal photos linked.
State: Governor Ron DeSantis is term-limited (open seat). flgov.com was NOT fetched (robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot/anthropic-ai/Claude-Web); the row reuses the us-jacksonville reading of 2026-10-15. SD-16 Darryl Ervin Rouson from https://www.flsenate.gov/Senators/s16 (robots allows, Crawl-delay 10 honoured); Fentrice Driskell is Unopposed for SD-16 (elected at qualifying). HD-60 Lindsay Cross from the flhouse.gov Representatives list (robots allows); she is not on the 2026 list; the open HD-60 race is Lindsay Polega-Quigley (DEM) v. Melissa Rutland (REP). No sitting St. Petersburg Council member or the Mayor appears on the 2026 Pinellas state/federal list (resign-to-run check: none).
Hosts: www.stpete.org robots.txt 301-redirects to https://cms5.revize.com/revize/stpete/robots.txt, which is 404, so stpete.org has no robots rules; its HTML pages are served by stpete.org itself. stpete.org PDF links redirect to cms5.revize.com, whose own robots.txt is 'Disallow: /' except 'Allow: /*.pdf$' — so PDFs were fetched only by URLs ending in .pdf (the '?t=' cache-busting suffix was dropped, since a query string would fall under Disallow). Fetched that way: the 2026 general-election candidates list, the 2026 Candidate Handbook and the City Charter. www.votepinellas.gov (Pinellas Supervisor of Elections, CivicPlus): Cloudflare 'Sorry, you have been blocked' on robots.txt — not bypassed, not retried; so the Pinellas sample ballot and municipal results (D4/D8 primary or qualifying outcome) were not read. Others: dos.elections.myflorida.com (no robots.txt), geocoding.geo.census.gov (no robots.txt), www2.census.gov (allows), house.gov (allows), unitedstates.github.io (no robots.txt), flsenate.gov (allows, Crawl-delay 10), flhouse.gov (allows). One User-Agent throughout: 'ResearchUpon-politics/1.0 (civic research; +https://researchupon.com)'.
Privacy: the City Clerk's candidate list prints home/mailing addresses, phones and emails; none of the addresses or phones were copied. Campaign-domain emails kept (Crist: Charlie@Charliecrist.com; Hament: contact@gabrielforstpete.com); groveforstpete@gmail.com kept as a campaign-named address; Bermudez and Mallory list personal-looking yahoo addresses (left null) and Welch's 'Votewelch@gmail.com' replaced by the official mayor@stpete.org. Campaign websites were not read, so website is null for the City candidates. City photos linked only (stpete.org states no reuse terms beyond '© 2026 City of St. Petersburg'). standsFor is null for everyone (no candidate statements read). counts.unopposed = 1 (Driskell, SD-16).

Sources

Prepared 2026-10-22. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.