Tampa: 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, held by appointee Ashley Moody); U.S. Representatives for FL-12, FL-14, FL-15; Governor and Lieutenant Governor (open seat), Attorney General, CFO and Commissioner of Agriculture; Florida House seats (city hall: HD-65, contested); even-numbered Senate seats (city hall SD-16, decided unopposed at qualifying); judicial retention and Hillsborough County offices. No City of Tampa offices (a District 7 council vacancy arises 2026-11-03 and is filled by council appointment)..
Holding office16
the sitting council
On the ballot23
6 sitting members running again
The official candidate list ↗ · What Tampa is like — the /local page
Congressional district (city hall): Florida's 14th congressional district (city hall); the city spans FL-12, FL-14, FL-15 — Gus M. Bilirakis (Republican)
1
Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jane Castor Elected | Mayor | Independent | City of Tampa |
2
State Representative — HD-67
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luis Viera ✉️ Elected | City Council Member → Running for State Representative | Independent | HD-67 | City of Tampa |
3
City Council Member
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alan Clendenin ✉️ Elected | City Council Member | Independent | District 1 At-Large | City of Tampa |
| Bill Carlson ✉️ Elected | City Council Member | Independent | District 4 | City of Tampa |
| Charlie Miranda ✉️ Elected | City Council Member | Independent | District 6 | City of Tampa |
| Guido Maniscalco ✉️ Elected | City Council Member | Independent | District 2 At-Large | City of Tampa |
| Lynn Hurtak ✉️ Elected | City Council Member | Independent | District 3 At-Large | City of Tampa |
| Naya Young Elected | City Council Member | Independent | District 5 | City of Tampa |
4
Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | 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 |
5
State Representative — HD-65
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karen Gonzalez Pittman Elected | State Representative → Running | Republican | Florida House of Representatives | |
| Ben Braver | State Representative Running | Democratic | Florida Division of Elections |
6
State Senator — SD-16
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darryl Ervin Rouson Elected | State Senator | Democratic | The Florida Senate | |
| Fentrice Driskell acclaimed | State Senator Running | Democratic | Florida Division of Elections |
7
U.S. Senator
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | 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 |
8
U.S. Representative — FL-12
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gus M. Bilirakis Elected | U.S. Representative → Running | Republican | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Branden Scrivener | U.S. Representative Running | Independent | Florida Division of Elections | |
| Kimberly Overman | U.S. Representative Running | Democratic | Florida Division of Elections |
9
U.S. Representative — FL-14
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kathy Castor Elected | U.S. Representative → Running | Democratic | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Brian Lambert | U.S. Representative Running | Libertarian | Florida Division of Elections | |
| Mike Beltran | U.S. Representative Running | Republican | Florida Division of Elections |
10
U.S. Representative — FL-15
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laurel M. Lee Elected | U.S. Representative → Running | Republican | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Robert People | 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.
- Municipal: Mayor Jane Castor from https://www.tampa.gov/mayor and the 7 City Council members from https://www.tampa.gov/city-council ('Meet Your City Council', page updated 10/19/2026), retrieved 2026-10-22 (robots.txt allows; footer 'Copyright ©2026 - City of Tampa', no reuse terms). Seats as printed: District 1 At-Large Alan Clendenin (City Council Chairman), District 2 At-Large Guido Maniscalco, District 3 At-Large Lynn Hurtak, District 4 Bill Carlson, District 5 Naya Young, District 6 Charlie Miranda, District 7 Luis Viera (CRA Vice Chair). Official council emails from each member's bio page; aides' emails and office phones not copied. Tampa elections are non-partisan (party null). The charter creates no other city-wide elected office.
- City of Tampa elections: no City office is on the 2026-11-03 ballot. A District 7 council vacancy 'existing on November 3, 2026' will be filled by council appointment (applications 2026-11-03 to 2026-11-09 noon; appointee seated 2026-11-19) under Charter s.10.01 because 15 months or less of the term remain — per https://www.tampa.gov/sites/default/files/document/2026/2026-district-7-appointment-guidelines-and-application.pdf. Next regular City election (Mayor and all 7 council seats): March 2027 (4-year cycle; last held March 2023 per the Mayor's page 're-elected in 2023'). The exact 2027 date was NOT verified on an official page: tampa.gov has no elections page (city-clerk/elections 404) and votehillsborough.gov is behind a Cloudflare block. Candidates for 2027 not recorded.
- Candidates: Florida Division of Elections Candidate Tracking System, 2026 General Election (elecid 20261103-GEN), queried with County = Hillsborough, Status = ALL (except WIT/DNQ), retrieved 2026-10-22 from https://dos.elections.myflorida.com/candidates/canlist.asp (no robots.txt — 404). The Division calls the system an 'unofficial reference'; it is the state's own qualifying list. Kept: status Qualified or Unopposed for U.S. Senate, U.S. House (every district covering the city), Governor, SD-16 and HD-65 (city hall). Dropped: Defeated (primary losers), write-ins (WRI: Kathy Anderson and Erik Morris for Governor; Salomon Hernandez Sr. and Keith Varian FL-14; Angie Boone FL-15), Cabinet races (not in the brief's scope; on the ballot: AG Uthmeier v. Rodriguez, CFO Ingoglia v. Taddeo, Agriculture Simpson v. Mendoza Atkins). Candidate detail pages (which print mailing addresses) were not opened. Party codes: DEM Florida Democratic Party, REP Republican Party of Florida, NPA No Party Affiliation (partyShort Independent), LPF Libertarian Party of Florida. Governor rows carry the Lieutenant Governor running mate printed on the list.
- Districts covering the city: TIGERweb was not usable (its robots.txt request was rejected), so a 26x26 grid over the Tampa bounding box (27.80-28.18 N, 82.25-82.66 W) was sent point by point to the Census geocoder's coordinates endpoint (Current_Current vintage) and kept where 'Incorporated Places' = 'Tampa city' (176 points; 42 points lost to a network drop were re-queried). U.S. House (120th Congressional Districts): FL-14 (107 points), FL-15 (46), FL-12 (23) — the same three districts the Division's Hillsborough filter lists. Florida Senate: SD-14 (125), SD-16 (37), SD-23 (14). Florida House: HD-65 (90), HD-67 (30), HD-63 (24), HD-64 (20), HD-62 (10), HD-66 (2). Only city hall's SD-16 and HD-65 are recorded as people. The grid is coarse (about 1.6 km spacing); a small district sliver could be missed.
- U.S. Senate: one Florida seat is on the 2026 ballot — the special election for the Rubio seat (Ashley Moody REP, incumbent-running; Angie Nixon DEM; Neil J. Gillespie NPA). Rick Scott's seat is not up. Senators from the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json because senate.gov returned HTTP 403 even for robots.txt. U.S. Representatives from https://www.house.gov/representatives (robots allows), retrieved 2026-10-22. No federal photos linked.
- State: Governor Ron DeSantis is term-limited (not on the Division's Governor list; open seat). flgov.com's robots.txt (seen 2026-10-22) disallows ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai and Claude-Web and sets ai-train=no, so it was NOT fetched; the DeSantis row reuses the us-jacksonville reading of flgov.com from 2026-10-15. City hall geocodes (Census geocoder, Current_Current vintage, '2026 State Legislative Districts') to Senate District 16 and House District 65. SD-16: Darryl Ervin Rouson (D) from https://www.flsenate.gov/Senators/s16 (robots allows, Crawl-delay 10 honoured); the seat is up in 2026 and Fentrice Driskell (DEM) is listed Unopposed — elected at qualifying, not on the November ballot. HD-65: Karen Gonzalez Pittman (R) from the flhouse.gov Representatives list (robots allows), running against Ben Braver (DEM).
- Luis Viera (District 7) is recorded incumbent-running for Florida House District 67: a 'Viera, Luis (DEM)' is Qualified there on the Division's Hillsborough list and the City has announced a District 7 vacancy from 2026-11-03 (Florida resign-to-run). The two are matched by name and geography, not by a single document naming both; re-verify.
- Hosts: dos.elections.myflorida.com (no robots.txt; served via Cloudflare but answered normally), geocoding.geo.census.gov (no robots.txt), tigerweb.geo.census.gov (robots.txt request 'Rejected' by a WAF — not used, not retried), tampa.gov (allows), house.gov (allows), senate.gov (403), unitedstates.github.io (no robots), flsenate.gov (allows, Crawl-delay 10), flhouse.gov (allows), flgov.com (disallows Claude agents — not fetched), votehillsborough.gov (Cloudflare 'Sorry, you have been blocked' on robots.txt — not bypassed, so the Hillsborough sample ballot was not read). One User-Agent used throughout: 'ResearchUpon/1.0 (civic research agent)'. Photos linked only (city, flsenate, flhouse). No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded; standsFor null for everyone (no candidate statements read).
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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.
- Florida Division of Elections — Candidate Tracking System (2026 General Election, Hillsborough County filter) 17
- City of Tampa — Tampa City Council, Meet Your City Council 7
- U.S. House of Representatives — Directory of Representatives (Florida) 3
- @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov returned HTTP 403 even for robots.txt 2
- The Florida Senate — Senator page (District 16) 1
- City of Tampa — Mayor Jane Castor 1
- Executive Office of the Governor of Florida (as read 2026-10-15 for us-jacksonville; not re-read) 1
- Florida House of Representatives — Representatives list 1