The Florida House of Representatives is the lower house of the Florida Legislature,the state legislature of the U.S. state of Florida,the Florida Senate being the upper house. Article III,Section 1 of the Constitution of Florida,adopted in 1968,defines the role of the Legislature and how it is to be constituted. The House is composed of 120 members,each elected from a single-member district with a population of approximately 180,000 residents. Legislative districts are drawn on the basis of population figures,provided by the federal decennial census. Representatives' terms begin immediately upon their election.
The 2006 United States Senate elections were held on November 7,2006,with all 33 Class 1 Senate seats being contested. The term of office for those elected in 2006 ran from January 3,2007,to January 3,2013. Before the election cycle,the Republican Party controlled 55 of the 100 Senate seats.
The Florida Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Florida,headquartered in Tallahassee. Former commissioner of agriculture Nikki Fried is the current chair.
Jefferson H. Van Drew is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 2nd congressional district since 2019. Formerly a Democrat,he has been a member of the Republican Party since 2020.
The 2008 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 4,2008,to elect members to the United States House of Representatives to serve in the 111th United States Congress from January 3,2009,until January 3,2011. It coincided with the election of Barack Obama as president. All 435 voting seats,as well as all 6 non-voting seats,were up for election. The Democratic Party,which won a majority of seats in the 2006 election,expanded its control in 2008.
Katherine Anne Castor is an American politician and lawyer currently representing Florida's 14th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives,serving since 2007. The district,numbered as the 11th district from 2007 to 2013,is based in Tampa. A Democrat,Castor was a member of the Hillsborough County Commission.
Adelaide "Alex" Sink is an American former politician and financier. A member of the Democratic Party,Sink was the Chief Financial Officer for the state of Florida and treasurer on the board of trustees of the Florida State Board of Administration. She was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Florida and faced Republican nominee Rick Scott in the 2010 Florida gubernatorial election,losing to Scott by a 1% margin. Sink also ran as the Democratic nominee in the 2014 special election for Florida's 13th congressional district,losing to Republican David Jolly on March 11,2014.
The 2008 United States presidential election in Florida took place on November 4,as part of the 2008 United States presidential election. Florida voters chose 27 representatives,or electors to the Electoral College,who voted for president and vice president.
The 2018 United States Senate elections were held on November 6,2018. Among the 100 seats,the 33 of Class 1 were contested in regular elections while 2 others were contested in special elections due to Senate vacancies in Minnesota and Mississippi. The regular election winners were elected to 6-year terms running from January 3,2019,to January 3,2025. Senate Democrats had 26 seats up for election,while Senate Republicans had 9 seats up for election.
The 2016 United States elections were held on Tuesday,November 8,2016. Republican nominee Donald Trump defeated Democratic former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the presidential election,while Republicans retained control of Congress. This marked the first time Republicans won or held unified control of the presidency and Congress since 2004,and would not do so again until 2024.
The 2018 United States elections were held on Tuesday,November 6,2018. These midterm elections occurred during Incumbent Republican President Donald Trump's first term. Although the Republican Party increased its majority in the Senate,unified Republican control of Congress and the White House was brought to an end when the Democratic Party won control of the House of Representatives in what was widely characterized as a "blue wave" election as Democrats also gained governorships,other statewide offices,and state legislative chambers.
The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 6,2018,as part of the 2018 midterm elections during President Donald Trump's first term,with early voting taking place in some states in the weeks preceding that date. Voters chose representatives from all 435 congressional districts across each of the 50 U.S. states to serve in the 116th United States Congress. Non-voting delegates from the District of Columbia and four of the five inhabited U.S. territories were also elected. On Election Day,Republicans had held a House majority since January 2011.
United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 8,2022,in 36 states and three territories. As most governors serve four-year terms,the last regular gubernatorial elections for all but two of the seats took place in the 2018 U.S. gubernatorial elections. The gubernatorial elections took place concurrently with several other federal,state,and local elections,as part of the 2022 midterm elections.
Ashley Brooke Moody is an American attorney and politician serving as the attorney general of Florida since January 2019. Moody previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney and a circuit court judge in Hillsborough County.
The 2024 United States Senate elections were held on November 5,2024,as part of the 2024 United States elections. Regularly scheduled elections were held for 33 out of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate,plus one seat in a special election. Senators are divided into 3 classes whose 6-year terms are staggered so that a different class is elected every 2 years. Class 1 senators faced election in 2024. Republicans flipped four Democratic-held seats,regaining a Senate majority for the first time since 2021.
Fentrice DeNell Driskell is an American attorney and Democratic Party politician currently serving as minority leader and representing the 67th House district in Hillsborough County in the Florida House of Representatives. She is Of Counsel at the law firm of Carlton Fields.
The 2022 Florida gubernatorial election was held on November 8,2022,to elect the governor of Florida,alongside other state and local elections. Incumbent Republican governor Ron DeSantis won re-election in landslide,with 59.4 percent of the vote to Crist's 40 percent;it was the largest margin of victory in a Florida gubernatorial election since 1982. Significantly,DeSantis won Miami-Dade County,which had been considered a Democratic stronghold and had last voted Republican in 2002,and Palm Beach County,which had not voted Republican since 1986. Crist conceded the election shortly after DeSantis was projected as the winner. At DeSantis's victory rally,supporters chanted "two more years" at various times rather than the common "four more years" to show support for DeSantis for president in 2024. and defeated the Democratic Party nominee,Charlie Crist,who served as governor of Florida from 2007 to 2011 as a Republican and later as an independent. No Democrat has been elected governor of Florida since 1994.
The 2026 United States Senate elections are scheduled to be held on November 3,2026,with 33 of the 100 seats in the Senate being contested in regular elections,the winners of which will serve six-year terms in the United States Congress from January 3,2027,to January 3,2033. Senators are divided into three groups,or classes,whose terms are staggered so that a different class is elected every two years. Class 2 senators were last elected in 2020 and will be up for election in this cycle.
