Xavier Louis Suarez is an American politician who was the first Cuban-born mayor of Miami and was a Miami-Dade county commissioner.
Joseph Xavier Carollo is a Cuban-American politician who served as mayor of Miami from 1996 to 1997 and again from 1998 to 2001. Following his loss in the 2001 mayoral election,he served as Doral,Florida city manager from January 2013 until his firing in April 2014;he was reinstated in June 2017,then immediately resigned. He successfully ran for election to the Miami city commission in 2017.
Gustavo "Gus" Alberto Barreiro was a Republican politician from Florida. He served four terms in the Florida House of Representatives,representing the 107th district in Miami-Dade County from 1998 to 2006. His district encompassed parts of Miami,Miami Beach,and Coral Gables.
Alejandro Díaz de la Portilla is a political consultant and former politician from Florida. A Republican,Díaz de la Portilla was a City of Miami commissioner for District 1 and a member of the Florida Senate from 2000 to 2010,representing parts of Miami-Dade County. He also served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1994 until his election to the Senate.
JoséAntonio Garcia Jr.,known as Joe Garcia,is an American attorney and politician. Garcia represented Florida's 26th congressional district in the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015. A Democrat,Garcia represented most of western Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys in Congress.
Carlos Antonio Giménez is a Cuban-born American retired firefighter and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 28th congressional district. He was redistricted from Florida's 26th congressional district in 2022. A Republican,he served as mayor of Miami-Dade County from 2011 to 2020. He served as a Miami-Dade County Commissioner from 2003 to 2011,and was the fire chief of the City of Miami Fire Department.
Annette Joanne Taddeo-Goldstein is a Colombian-American politician and businesswoman who served as a member of the Florida Senate from the 40th district from 2017 to 2022. She was an unsuccessful candidate for several elections starting in 2008 and was Charlie Crist's running mate in the 2014 Florida gubernatorial election. She was formerly a Democratic candidate in the 2022 Florida gubernatorial election,but withdrew to run for Congress in Florida's 27th congressional district to unsuccessfully challenge incumbent María Elvira Salazar. She is currently running for Miami-Dade County Clerk and Comptroller.
David Mauricio Rivera is an American Republican politician from Florida. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for one term,representing parts of South Florida from 2011 to 2013.
Tomás Pedro Regalado y Valdez is a Cuban American politician and former broadcast journalist who served as the 42nd mayor of Miami,Florida,from 2009 to 2017. He is a member of the Republican Party,although as Miami mayor his office was nonpartisan.
Florida's 27th congressional district is an electoral district for the U.S. Congress and was first created in South Florida during 2012,effective January 2013,as a result of the 2010 census. The first candidates ran in the 2012 House elections,and the winner was seated for the 113th Congress on January 3,2013.
The 2012 United States presidential election in Florida took place on November 6,as part of the 2012 U.S. presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Florida voters chose 29 electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama and his running mate,Vice President Joe Biden,against Republican challenger and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and his running mate,U.S. Representative Paul Ryan.
Bryan Avila is an American Republican politician who currently serves as a member of the Florida Senate,representing the 39th District. He previously served in the Florida House of Representatives,representing the 111th District,which includes parts of Miami and Hialeah in northeastern Miami-Dade County,since 2014. Avila will be term limited in 2022 and has announced his intention to run for Miami Dade County commission district 6.
The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida were held on Tuesday,November 6,2018,to elect the 27 U.S. representatives from the state of Florida,one from each of the state's 27 congressional districts. The elections coincided with the elections of other offices,including a gubernatorial election,other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate,and various state and local elections. The party primaries were held on August 28,2018.
María Elvira Salazar is an American journalist,author,and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 27th congressional district. She is a Republican assistant whip. Before entering politics,Salazar worked for the Spanish-language network Telemundo for three decades after serving as a news anchor for Miami-based WSBS TV. She has also worked for CNN Español and Univision.
Deborah Mucarsel-Powell is an American politician and academic administrator who served as the U.S. representative for Florida's 26th congressional district from 2019 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party,she represented a district in the southern Miami-Dade County,including Homestead and the Florida Keys.
The 2020 Miami-Dade County mayoral election was held on November 3,2020,to determine the mayor of Miami-Dade County,Florida. County Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava defeated fellow commissioner Esteban Bovo. Incumbent Mayor Carlos A. Giménez,first elected in 2011,was term-limited;instead running for the U.S. House of Representatives to represent Florida's 26th congressional district.
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida were held on November 8,2022,to elect the 28 U.S. representatives from Florida,one from each of the state's 28 congressional districts. The primary was held on August 23,2022. The elections coincided with the 2022 United States Senate election in Florida,other elections to the House of Representatives,other elections to the United States Senate,and various state and local elections.
Daniella Levine Cava is an American lawyer,social worker,and politician who has served as the mayor of Miami-Dade County,Florida since 2020. Previously,she was a Miami-Dade County Commissioner from 2014 until her election as mayor in 2020. She handily won re-election in 2024. She is the first woman and the first person of Jewish descent to serve as mayor of Miami-Dade County.
The 2021 Miami mayoral election was held on November 2,2021,to elect the mayor of Miami,Florida. The election was officially nonpartisan. If no candidate received a majority of the vote in the first ballot,the top two candidates would have advanced to a runoff election on November 16,2021.
