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.
Susan Clair Lee is an American politician. She has served as the 72nd Maryland Secretary of State since 2023. She was previously a member of the Maryland State Senate from 2015 to 2023,and of the Maryland House of Delegates from 2002 to 2015. She represented District 16,which is located in Montgomery County,and was the first Asian American elected to the Maryland State Senate and the first Asian American woman and first Chinese American to be elected to the Maryland legislature.
Benjamin Scott Barnes is an American politician who represents District 21 in the Maryland House of Delegates. A Democrat,he was first elected in 2006 and reelected in 2010,2014,and 2018.
Michael V. Nelson is an American politician and member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL),he represents District 38A,which includes the cities of Brooklyn Park and Osseo in Hennepin County in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
Lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender (LGBT) people in the U.S. state of Florida face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT people. Same-sex sexual activity became legal in the state after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas on June 26,2003,and same-sex marriage has been legal in the state since January 6,2015. Discrimination on account of sexual orientation and gender identity in employment,housing and public accommodations is outlawed following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County. In addition,several cities and counties,comprising about 55 percent of Florida's population,have enacted anti-discrimination ordinances. These include Jacksonville,Miami,Tampa,Orlando,St. Petersburg,Tallahassee and West Palm Beach,among others. Conversion therapy is also banned in a number of cities in the state,mainly in Palm Beach County and the Miami metropolitan area.
Ronald Dion DeSantis is an American politician serving as the 46th governor of Florida since 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he represented Florida's 6th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2013 to 2018. DeSantis is a candidate in the 2024 United States presidential election.
Raymond Wesley Rodrigues is the 12th chancellor of the State University System of Florida since 2023. Previously,he served four terms in the Florida House of Representatives,representing southern and coastal Lee County from 2012 to 2020 and one term in the Florida Senate from 2020 to 2022. His campaign website describes him as conservative.
David M. Kerner is the former county mayor and a county commissioner for,Palm Beach County and a former Democratic member of the Florida House of Representatives. He is a former police officer and special prosecutor. He also is a practicing complex litigation trial attorney in West Palm Beach,Florida,and is known as a leader on issues relating to constitutional law,criminal law,judicial issues,and law enforcement issues. He lives in Lake Worth Beach,and is married to Jacqueline Kerner.
Charles Brandon Creighton is an American attorney and politician from Conroe,Texas,who is a Republican member of the Texas Senate from District 4,and a former member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 16.
Sylvester Turner is an American attorney and politician who is serving as the 62nd mayor of Houston,Texas. A member of the Democratic Party,Turner was a member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1989 until 2016. He attended the University of Houston and Harvard Law School. Turner ran for mayor of Houston in 1991,losing in the runoff election to Bob Lanier. He lost again in 2003,coming in third and thus missing the runoff.
Carlos Guillermo Smith is an American community activist,lobbyist,and politician. A Democrat,he served as a member of the Florida House of Representatives from District 49,which covered the University of Central Florida area.
Dave Williams is an American far-right politician from Colorado Springs,Colorado. A Republican,Williams represented Colorado House of Representatives District 15,which encompassed Colorado Springs and Cimarron Hills in El Paso County.
Joe Gruters was the Chairman of the Florida Republican Party from 2018 to 2022,and is a member of the Florida Senate representing the 22nd District,which consists of Sarasota County and part of Charlotte County. He was previously a member of the Florida House of Representatives. Earlier in his career,Gruters worked on the campaign of U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan as campaign manager and was vice chairman of the Republican Party of Florida and chairman of the Republican Party of Sarasota.
Ginny Klevorn is an American politician serving in the Minnesota House of Representatives since 2019. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL),Klevorn represents District 44A in the western Twin Cities metropolitan area,which includes the city of Plymouth and parts of Hennepin County.
Anna Vishkaee Eskamani is an American politician who is the member of the Florida House of Representatives from the 47th district in Orange County from 2018. She is the first Iranian American in the Florida legislature. Eskamani is a member of the Democratic Party supporting abortion rights,increased gun control,increasing expenditures on public education,and increasing environmental regulations such as a banning plastic bags. Anna Eskamani is a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Florida in 2026.
Mike Beltran is an American politician in the state of Florida. He is a Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives representing the state's 57th district,which includes part of Hillsborough County.
Laurel Frances Lee is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representatives for Florida's 15th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Republican Party,she was a judge on Florida's Thirteenth Judicial Circuit from 2013 to 2019 and was the 30th Secretary of State of Florida from 2019 to 2022.
Florida's 11th House District elects one member of the Florida House of Representatives. The district representative seat is currently held by Sam Garrison since the 2022 United States House of Representatives elections. Following the 2020 United States redistricting cycle,Florida redrew district borders,changing its location from Northeast Jacksonville to Southeast Jacksonville,west of Fruit Cove,containing Middleburg. As of the 2010 Census,the district's population is 177,922.
The Ninety-second Minnesota Legislature is the legislature of the U.S. state of Minnesota from January 5,2021,to January 3,2023. It is composed of the Senate and House of Representatives,based on the results of the 2020 Senate election and 2020 House election.
The political positions of Ron DeSantis have been recorded from his 2012 United States House of Representatives elections and his tenure as Representative,the 2016 United States Senate election in Florida,and during his tenure as governor of Florida. DeSantis is considered a conservative Republican.
