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.
Audrey Gibson is an American politician serving as a Democratic member of the Florida Senate,representing the 6th district,which includes sections of downtown Jacksonville in Duval County,since 2016. She previously represented the 9th district from 2012 to 2016 and the 1st district from 2011 to 2012. Gibson also served in the Florida House of Representatives,representing the 15th district in downtown Jacksonville from 2002 to 2010.
M. Athalie Range was a Bahamian American civil rights activist and politician who was the first African-American to serve on the Miami,Florida City Commission,and the first African-American since Reconstruction and the first woman to head a Florida state agency,the Department of Community Affairs.
Oscar Braynon,II is an American Democratic politician from Miami Gardens,Florida. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2008 to 2011 and then in the Florida Senate from 2011 to 2020,representing parts of southern Broward and northern Miami-Dade County.
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.
Lois Jane Frankel is an American politician and lawyer who has been the United States representative for Florida's 22nd congressional district since 2023 and from 2013 to 2017 and Florida’s 21st congressional district from 2017 to 2023. As a member of the Democratic Party,Frankel was a 7-term member of the Florida House of Representatives and a two-term mayor of West Palm Beach.
Michael Christian Góngora is an American politician and lawyer from Miami Beach,Florida who is currently serving his third term as Commissioner of the City of Miami Beach City Commission. Gongora was first elected in 2006 and most recently in 2017. Besides his legal practice,Gongora currently serves as a legal and political analyst and is regularly featured on many Spanish networks including Telemundo,America Teve and Mira TV.
The 2011 Miami Beach mayoral election,a nonpartisan race,was held on Tuesday,November 1,2011. Incumbent Mayor Matti Herrera Bower,who was first elected in 2007,won a third and final two-year term. She was challenged by three opponents.
Daphne Campbell is a former Democratic member of the Florida Senate who represented the 38th district,including Miami Beach,North Miami,and other parts of northeastern Miami-Dade County,since 2016. Previously,she served three terms in the Florida House of Representatives,representing the 108th district from 2010 to 2016. She was defeated by Jason Pizzo in a primary election on August 28,2018. She ran for Senate District 35 in 2020.
The 2017 United States elections were held,in large part,on Tuesday,November 7,2017. This off-year election featured gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey,as well as state legislative elections in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature and in the Virginia House of Delegates. Numerous citizen initiatives,mayoral races,and a variety of other local elections also occurred. Special elections were also held for one seat of the U.S. Senate,representing Alabama,and six seats of the U.S. House of Representatives. The Democrats picked up the governorship in New Jersey and the Alabama Senate seat that was up for a special election. The governorship in Virginia and the six House seats that were up for special elections did not change party hands.
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.
Philip Louis Levine is an American businessman and politician who served as Mayor of Miami Beach from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party,he was a candidate in the 2018 Florida gubernatorial election.
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.
The 2017 Miami mayoral election took place on November 7,2017,to elect the Mayor of Miami,Florida. The election was officially nonpartisan. A runoff election would have taken place on November 21,2017,if no candidate had received a majority of votes in the general election. Francis Suarez won the election with almost 86% of the vote and little opposition,thus avoiding the runoff.
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.
Steve Ryan Berke is a co-founder of the International Church of Cannabis,two-time candidate for mayor of Miami Beach,cannabis activist,rapper,YouTuber,entrepreneur,and former All-American tennis player.
The mayor of Miami Beach is the nonpartisan chief executive of the municipal government of Miami Beach,Florida,and the presiding member of its seven-member City Commission. Modern-day mayors are elected to two-year terms and are term-limited to no more than 3 terms,which can be consecutive or non-consecutive. The mayor and other members of the City Commission appoint a city manager to administer the day-to-day affairs and operations of City Hall and its various departments. City Hall is located at 1700 Convention Center Drive;the mayor's office is located on the fourth floor.
Michael Christopher Grieco is an American attorney and politician. A Democrat,Grieco served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2018 to 2022,representing the 113th district.
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.
Albert Tresvant was an American politician who served as the first African-American commissioner and mayor of Opa-Locka,Florida and first African-American mayor in Dade County.
