Tallahassee: who represents it, and who is running

U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices), with the City of Tallahassee 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. Representative for FL-2 (open seat: Neal Dunn is not on the list); Governor and Lieutenant Governor (open seat), Attorney General, CFO and Commissioner of Agriculture; Florida House seats (city hall: HD-9, Tant v. Robinson; HD-8 decided unopposed at qualifying); no State Senate seat covering the city (SD-3 not up); judicial retention; Leon County Commission, School Board and special-district races; and the non-partisan City of Tallahassee run-offs for Mayor (Seat 4: Ausley v. Matlow), City Commission Seat 3 (open: Derzypolski v. Perez) and Seat 5 (Williams-Cox v. Inman-Johnson)..

Holding office11

the sitting council

On the ballot21

4 sitting members running again

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

Congressional district (city hall): Florida's 2nd congressional district (city hall; the whole city samples to FL-2 on the 2026 map) — Neal P. Dunn (Republican)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
John E. Dailey ✉️ Elected	Mayor	Independent	City of Tallahassee
Jeremy Matlow Elected	City Commissioner → Running for Mayor	Independent	City of Tallahassee
Loranne Elizabeth Ausley	Mayor Running	Independent	Leon County Supervisor of Elections

City Commissioner — Seat 3

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
PJ Perez	City Commissioner Running	Independent	Seat 3	Leon County Supervisor of Elections
Tom Derzypolski	City Commissioner Running	Independent	Seat 3	Leon County Supervisor of Elections

City Commissioner — Seat 5

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Dianne Williams-Cox Elected	City Commissioner → Running	Independent	Seat 5	City of Tallahassee
Dot Inman-Johnson	City Commissioner Running	Independent	Seat 5	Leon County Supervisor of Elections

City Commissioner

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Curtis Richardson Elected	City Commissioner	Independent	Seat 2	City of Tallahassee
Jacqueline "Jack" Porter Elected	City Commissioner	Independent	Seat 1	City of Tallahassee

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-9

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Allison Tant Elected	State Representative → Running	Democratic		Florida House of Representatives
Tracy Robinson	State Representative Running	Republican		Florida Division of Elections

State Senator — SD-3

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Corey Simon ✉️ 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 returned HTTP 403 even for robots.txt
Ashley Moody Elected	U.S. Senator → Running	Republican	@unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov returned HTTP 403 even for robots.txt
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-2

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Neal P. Dunn Elected	U.S. Representative	Republican	U.S. House of Representatives
Amanda Marie Green	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic	Florida Division of Elections
Austin Rogers	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 and four Commissioners from https://www.talgov.com/cityleadership/CityLeadership and each member's page (robots.txt 'User-agent: * / Disallow:' — allows everything; Disclaimer and network-usage terms read first; retrieved 2026-10-22). The Commission has five seats: Seat 1 Jacqueline "Jack" Porter, Seat 2 Curtis Richardson (Mayor Pro Tem), Seat 3 Jeremy Matlow, Seat 4 Mayor John E. Dailey, Seat 5 Dianne Williams-Cox. The City Manager, City Attorney, Treasurer-Clerk and Inspector General are appointed, so no other city-wide elected office exists. The leadership page carries two older commented-out rosters (Matlow as Mayor Pro Tem, Reese Goad as City Manager); the visible block was used. Only the Mayor's office email (mayor@talgov.com) is printed; the commissioners use contact forms (email null). Aides and phones not copied.
City election: Leon County Supervisor of Elections 'Offices Up for Election' (https://www.leonvotes.gov/Candidates/Candidates/Offices-Up-for-Election) lists Tallahassee City Commission Seat 4/Mayor (incumbent John Dailey), Seat 3 (Jeremy Matlow) and Seat 5 for 2026: 'Type of Office: Non-partisan', '4 year term of office', 'Takes Office: 13th day after General Election', 'Term Limits: No term limits', qualifying noon 6/8/26 - noon 6/12/26. The Leon SOE 2026 Candidate List (iframe table /Portals/0/Files/Candidates/ElectionFilers.html, retrieved 2026-10-22) marks two candidates per seat 'Advanced' to the November ballot and the rest 'Defeated' (primary of 2026-08-18), 'Withdrew' or 'Did not Qualify'; only 'Advanced' candidates are recorded. Confirmed against the Leon '2026 GEN Election Guide' generic sample ballot (Mayor: Loranne Ausley, Jeremy Matlow; Seat 3: Tom Derzypolski, P.J. Perez; Seat 5: Dot Inman-Johnson, Dianne Williams-Cox). Matlow, the Seat 3 incumbent, is running for Mayor (incumbent-running, runningFor Mayor); Dailey is not a candidate. The candidate table prints filers' home addresses, personal emails and phones — none were copied. Next City election after 2026: November 2028 (Seats 1 and 2, Porter and Richardson); the 2028 table shows one early filer for Seat 2, status 'Filed', not recorded.
Candidates (federal and state): Florida Division of Elections Candidate Tracking System, 2026 General Election (elecid 20261103-GEN), County = Leon, Status = ALL (except WIT/DNQ), Office = ALL, retrieved 2026-10-22 from https://dos.elections.myflorida.com/candidates/canlist.asp (no robots.txt — 404). The Division calls it an 'unofficial reference of candidates for federal, state, and multicounty offices'; it is the state's own qualifying list, and the Leon sample ballot matches it race for race. Kept: status Qualified or Unopposed for U.S. Senate, U.S. House FL-2, Governor (with the Lt. Governor running mate as printed) and HD-9 (city hall). Dropped: Defeated (primary losers), write-ins (WRI: Kathy Anderson and Erik Morris for Governor), Cabinet races (outside the brief; on the ballot: AG Uthmeier v. Rodriguez, CFO Ingoglia v. Taddeo, Agriculture Simpson v. Mendoza Atkins v. write-in Gibson), judicial retention, HD-7 (Jason Shoaf, Unopposed) and HD-8 (Gallop P. Franklin II, Unopposed) — those two cover parts of Leon County / the city but are not city hall's seat. Candidate detail pages (which print addresses) not opened. Party codes: DEM, REP, NPA (partyShort Independent), LPF.
Districts: city hall (coordinates 30.4383, -84.2807) is Congressional District 2 on the Census geocoder's '120th Congressional Districts' layer, State Senate District 3 and State House District 9 on the '2026 State Legislative Districts' layers. tigerweb.geo.census.gov answered 'Request Rejected' (WAF) even for robots.txt, so no city polygon was used; instead a 2.5 km grid of 121 Census-geocoder points over the Tallahassee area was sampled and the 46 points that fall inside 'Tallahassee city' were kept: CD-2 46/46, SD-3 46/46, HD-9 29 and HD-8 17. So the whole city is in FL-2 and SD-3 (slivers elsewhere cannot be ruled out by a 2.5 km sample), and two House districts (8 and 9) cover it; only HD-9 (city hall) is recorded as people, per the brief. HD-8's Gallop P. Franklin II (Democrat) was re-elected unopposed at qualifying.
Federal: U.S. Representative from https://www.house.gov/representatives (robots allows; Florida 2nd 'Dunn, Neal', R); Neal Dunn is not on the 2026 FL-2 list, so FL-2 is open (Austin Rogers REP v. Amanda Marie Green DEM). U.S. Senators from the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json because senate.gov returned HTTP 403 (Akamai 'Access Denied') even for robots.txt; not retried. The 2026 ballot carries only the special election for the Rubio seat (Moody REP incumbent; Nixon DEM; Gillespie NPA); Rick Scott's seat is not up. No federal photos linked.
State: Governor Ron DeSantis is term-limited (open seat); flgov.com was not fetched (its robots.txt disallows Claude agents) — the row reuses the us-jacksonville reading of 2026-10-15. SD-3: Corey Simon (Republican) from https://www.flsenate.gov/Senators/s3 (robots allows /Senators/, Crawl-delay 10 honoured — three requests 10 s apart; /api/ and /Senators/*/email not touched); SD-3 is not on the 2026 list. HD-9: 'Tant, Allison', Democrat, District 9, term 11/06/24 - 11/03/26, from the flhouse.gov Representatives list and her member page (MemberId 4765; robots allows /Sections/Representatives/, disallows /api — the member page's /api/Member photo paths were not used; the plain /FileStores/ portrait is linked). Process slip: the flhouse.gov Representatives list was fetched before its 'Privacy Statement and Disclaimer' page was read; the disclaimer was read immediately after and imposes no restriction on reading member facts (it bars re-use of broadcasts/video without permission and says 'The information on this site is unverified').
Hosts and blocks: talgov.com (allows all), leonvotes.gov (robots disallows /*/ctl/, /admin/, /contest/ etc. — none touched), dos.elections.myflorida.com (no robots.txt), geocoding.geo.census.gov (no robots.txt — 404), tigerweb.geo.census.gov (WAF 'Request Rejected' on robots.txt — not used), house.gov (allows /representatives), senate.gov (403 on robots.txt — not used), unitedstates.github.io (no robots.txt), flsenate.gov (allows, Crawl-delay 10), flhouse.gov (allows member pages), flgov.com (not fetched). One User-Agent throughout: 'ResearchUpon-politics/1.0 (civic research; +https://researchupon.com)'.
Terms: talgov.com Disclaimer says information is provided 'as a public service' and users must check accuracy themselves; its 'Terms and Conditions: Network Usage' cover the City's internet service and do not restrict reading. leonvotes.gov states only a Privacy Policy/Disclaimer (indemnity clause) and 'Copyright 2026 by LeonVotes.gov'. Florida House: 'All rights reserved'. No reuse licence anywhere; photos are linked only, never copied. No home addresses, phones or personal emails are recorded; standsFor is null for everyone (no candidate statements read).

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.