Florida’s 2026 Federal Races: Your First Look At Florida's National Office Candidates

The following list of candidates was curated from BallotPedia on Tuesday, December 30th.  To the degree that the list is incomplete, it represents the best scrape of the data we available at this time.  Tidings Media will be tracking races that are important to Florida on a state-wide and national level heading towards the November, 2026 elections.  Feel free to add corrections to the comments.

Florida’s 2026 Federal Ballot: Who’s Running for Congress?

Florida’s next federal elections are set for Primary Day on August 18, 2026 and the General Election on November 3, 2026. Below is a snapshot of active candidates currently listed on Florida’s official candidate tracker for the 2026 General Election cycle. (This list will change as more candidates file, qualify, withdraw, or are removed.)  Feel free to add corrections in the comments.  This list was the best we could scrape at the end of December, 2025.

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On November 3, 2026, there will be a special election to fill the rest of the six-year term that Marco Rubio (R) was elected to in 2022. Primaries are scheduled for August 18, 2026. The filing deadline is April 24, 2026.[1][2]  The special election will fill the vacancy left by Marco Rubio (R), who was confirmed as U.S. Secretary of State on January 20, 2025.

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Byron Donalds, pictured, is actually running for Governor of Florida as he departs the United States House of Representatives.  We left him in for honorable mention.  

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U.S. Senate (Florida)

Active candidates listed by the Florida Division of Elections (as of Dec. 29, 2025): Division of Elections

• Alex Gould (DEM)

• Michaelangelo Collins Hamilton (REP)

• Tamika Lyles (DEM)

• Ashley Moody (REP) (incumbent)

• Neelam Taneja Perry (NPA)

• Joshua Joseph Weil (DEM)

U.S. House (Florida) declared candidates by district

Ballotpedia notes it is currently grouping declared candidates under a general-election heading and warns the lists may not be complete. Ballotpedia+2Ballotpedia+2

District 1 Ballotpedia

Jimmy Patronis (R) (Incumbent); Gay Valimont (D); Aaron Dimmock (R); Charles Keebaugh (R); John Mills (R); Bernadette Pittman (R); Tayla Plumer (R); Gene Valentino (R)

District 2

Ballotpedia’s District 2 candidate bullets were not visible in the text extract I pulled. Use the official Florida candidate listing to confirm the latest filed names. Division of Elections+1

District 3 Ballotpedia

Kat Cammack (R) (Incumbent); Rock Aboujaoude Jr. (D); Troy Albers (D); Seth Harp (D); Tom Wells (D); Anthony Stebbins (Lib.); Angela Wiman (Unaff.); Angela Wiman (Unaffiliated)

District 4 Ballotpedia

Aaron Bean (R) (Incumbent); Michael Kirwan (D); Ricky Knoles (D); Brittney Robinson (D); Anthony Valerio (R); Ronald Sherard (NPA); Todd Schaefer (Unaff.)

District 5 Ballotpedia

John Rutherford (R) (Incumbent); Rachel Grage (D); Mark Heggestad (D); Eli Johnson (D); Mark Kaye (R); Donald Muirheid (R)

District 6 Ballotpedia

Randy Fine (R) (Incumbent); Ronnie Murchinson-Rivera (D); James Stockton (D); Eric Yonce (D); Ernest Audino (R); Will Furry (R); Charles Gambaro (R); Alexandra van Cleef (R)

District 7 Ballotpedia

Cory Mills (R) (Incumbent); Jennifer Adams (D); George Bock (D); Bale Dalton (D); Benjamin Ewers (D); Marialana Kinter (D); Noah Widmann (D); Michael Johnson (R); Sarah Ulrich (R)

District 8 Ballotpedia

Mike Haridopolos (R) (Incumbent); Paul Dellinger (D); Lacey Villareal (Ind.)

District 9 Ballotpedia

Darren Soto (D) (Incumbent); Marcus Carter (R); Thomas Chalifoux (R); Jorge Malavet (R); Howard Steven Rance (R); Justin Story (R)

District 10 Ballotpedia

Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D) (Incumbent); Stuart Farber (R); Willie Montague (R); Angela Marie Walls-Windhauser (R); Vibert White (R)

District 11 Ballotpedia

Daniel Webster (R) (Incumbent); Barbie Harden Hall (D); Royal Webster (D); Dan Williams (D); Mike Wilnau (R); Ralph Groves (Lib.)

District 12 Ballotpedia

Gus M. Bilirakis (R) (Incumbent); Christopher Irizarry (D); Shay Williams (R)

District 13 Ballotpedia

Anna Paulina Luna (R) (Incumbent); Earle Ford (D); Susan Leff (D); Jeff Moore (D); Reggie Paros (D); Brandt Robinson (D); Njällssen Amaro Lionheart (R); Tony D’Arrigo (NPA)

District 14 Ballotpedia

Kathy Castor (D) (Incumbent); Juan Arauz (D); John Peters (R); Robert Rochford (R); Gavriel E. Soriano (R)

District 15 Ballotpedia

Laurel Lee (R) (Incumbent); Jose Engell (D); Darren McAuley (D); Kimberly Overman (D); Robert People (D)

District 16 Ballotpedia

Vern Buchanan (R) (Incumbent); Jonathan Harris (D); Glenn Pearson (D); Jan Schneider (D); Mark Davis (NPA)

District 17 Ballotpedia

Greg Steube (R) (Incumbent); Matthew Montavon (D); Allen Spence (D)

District 18 Ballotpedia

Scott Franklin (R) (Incumbent); Deva Simmons (NPA)

District 19 Ballotpedia+1

Jared Kane (D); Howard Sapp (D); Madison Cawthorn (R); Stephen Elliott (R); John Fratto (R); Ola Hawatmeh (R); Catalina Lauf (R); Dylan Modarelli (R); Jim Oberweis (R); Mike Pedersen (R); Jim Schwartzel (R); John Strand (R)

District 20 Ballotpedia

Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D) (Incumbent); Mark Douglas (D); Dale Holness (D); Elijah Manley (D); Sendra Dorce (R); Rod Joseph (R)

District 21 Ballotpedia

Brian Mast (R) (Incumbent); Pia Dandiya (D); James Martin (D); Elizabeth Pandich (D); Bernard Taylor (D)

District 22 Ballotpedia

Lois Frankel (D) (Incumbent); Ian Blake (D); Victoria Doyle (D); Deborah Adeimy (R); Steven Crowley (R); Anna Medvedeva (R); Antonio Srado (R)

District 23 Ballotpedia

Jared Evan Moskowitz (D) (Incumbent); Oliver Larkin (D); Darlene Cerezo Swaffar (R); Jared Gurfein (R); Raven Harrison (R); Joe Kaufman (R); George Moraitis (R); Rafael Ortiz (R)

District 24 Ballotpedia

Frederica S. Wilson (D) (Incumbent); Patricia Gonzalez (R); Imtiaz Mohammad (R)

District 25 Ballotpedia

Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) (Incumbent); Michael Carbonara (R); Claudia Villatoro (R)

District 26 Ballotpedia

Mario Diaz-Balart (R) (Incumbent); Yurina Gil (D)

District 27 Ballotpedia

Maria Elvira Salazar (R) (Incumbent); Mike Davey (D); Alexander Fornino (D); Richard Lamondin (D); Robin Peguero (D); Gavin Solomon (R)

District 28 Ballotpedia

Carlos Gimenez (R) (Incumbent); Phil Ehr (D); Herrera Macuran (R); Eddy Rojas (Ind.)