Clearwater, Florida sample ballot 2026

Zachariah Wade is a qualified candidate for Pinellas County Court Judge Group 10 on the August 18, 2026 ballot. Per his campaign materials, he served as an assistant state attorney in Pinellas County and now represents clients in criminal cases in private practice.

Tim Hughes is a retired environmental specialist who spent 20 years in watershed management for a Virginia public works department, per the Tampa Bay Beacon's qualifying report. He is conservation chair of the Suncoast Sierra Club and serves on Clearwater's community resiliency board, per his campaign site.

Brian Scott is president of Escot Bus Lines, a family-owned Pinellas transportation company, and the sitting District 2 commissioner, serving as board chairman in 2025, per his campaign site and the county's official board roster.

Dave Eggers is a businessman and former mayor of Dunedin with an engineering degree from Duke and an MBA from Pitt, per his campaign site and the Tampa Bay Beacon. First elected to the commission in 2014, he is the sitting District 4 commissioner, per the county's official board roster.

David Glenn Jr. is an architect and a qualified Democratic candidate for Pinellas County Commissioner District 6 on the 2026 ballot. His stated campaign priorities include carefully planned growth, workforce housing, and support for transit, libraries, and parks, per his campaign materials.

Kathleen Peters ran a local Pinellas business before entering public office, served six years in the Florida House, and has been the District 6 commissioner since 2018, per her campaign site and the Tampa Bay Beacon's qualifying report.

Lisa Cane is executive director of The Tampa Bay Performing Arts Academy and has held the At Large District 2 school board seat since 2018, per the League of Women Voters VOTE411 guide and the district's official board roster.

Nancy Velardi is a retired high school English teacher who spent over 20 years in Pinellas public schools, 22 of them at Pinellas Park High, and is a former president of the Pinellas Classroom Teachers Association, per the VOTE411 voter guide.

Curtis Campogni is the founder of Speak4MC, which trains professionals in empathy-based communication and leadership; his Pinellas career includes work as a case manager, youth program director, and high school coach, per his campaign site. He is a first-time candidate, per the Tampa Bay Beacon.

Peters was elected to the Pinellas County School Board in November 2022 and serves as vice chairperson, per the campaign site. She works in property management, is a certified substitute preschool teacher, and has served as a PTA officer, per the campaign site.

Nancy Nelis Bostock runs a family chemical manufacturing lab, per the Tampa Bay Beacon's qualifying report, and previously served ten years on the Pinellas School Board and four years on the County Commission, per her campaign site.

Amanda Lord has spent 24 years as a senior project manager at Franklin Templeton Investments and taught as an adjunct professor at St. Petersburg College; she is a North Shore Elementary PTA leader with two children in district schools, per her campaign site and the Tampa Bay Beacon.

Ashley Moody is Florida's incumbent U.S. senator and the Republican nominee in the 2026 special election for the final two years of Marco Rubio's term. Appointed in January 2025 when Rubio became secretary of state, she previously served as Florida attorney general and as a circuit judge.

• Voted yes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax-and-spending package, which passed the Senate 50-50 in July 2025 with the Vice President breaking the tie. Supported
• Voted yes on the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2026, which passed the Senate 77-20 in October 2025. Supported
• Voted yes on the November 2025 funding agreement that ended the government shutdown, which passed the Senate 60-40 in November 2025. Supported
• Voted yes on the March 2025 full-year stopgap funding bill, which passed the Senate 54-46 in March 2025. Supported

Nixon is a Florida state representative from Jacksonville and a former union organizer running for the U.S. Senate, per the campaign site. She has said her mother worked two jobs and that she lost a cousin to gun violence, and she has led opposition to congressional and legislative maps drawn under Governor DeSantis, per the campaign site.

Donalds is a member of Congress representing Florida's 19th District since 2020, per the campaign site. Before Congress, he worked in the finance, insurance and banking industries in Southwest Florida and served in the Florida House of Representatives, where he chaired the House Insurance and Banking Subcommittee and led the effort to enact Hope Scholarships for school choice, per the campaign site. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Florida State University in 2002, per the campaign site.

• Voted yes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax-and-spending package, which passed the House 218-214 in July 2025. Supported
• Voted yes on the Laken Riley Act, expanding federal detention of certain immigrants charged with theft or violent crimes, which passed the House 263-156 in January 2025. Supported
• Voted yes on the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2026, which passed the House 231-196 in September 2025. Supported
• Voted yes on the November 2025 funding agreement that ended the government shutdown, which passed the House 222-209 in November 2025. Supported
• Voted yes on the September 2025 stopgap funding bill, which passed the House 217-212 in September 2025. Supported
• Voted yes on the March 2025 full-year stopgap funding bill, which passed the House 217-213 in March 2025. Supported

David Jolly is the Democratic nominee for Florida governor, a former Republican congressman from the Tampa Bay area who left the GOP and joined the Democratic Party in 2025. His campaign emphasizes affordability, property insurance reform, public schools, and ending one-party control of Tallahassee.

James Uthmeier is Florida's incumbent attorney general and the Republican candidate in the 2026 election. Appointed in February 2025 after serving as Governor DeSantis's chief of staff, he is seeking a full term. Per the state qualifying list, he and Democrat Jose Javier Rodriguez advance directly to the November ballot.

Jose Javier Rodriguez is an attorney, a former Florida state representative and state senator from Miami, and a former U.S. assistant secretary of labor, per the campaign site. His campaign says he would focus the office on crime, costs and corruption and serve as an independent-minded enforcer of the law, per the campaign site.

Blaise Ingoglia is Florida's incumbent chief financial officer and the Republican nominee in the 2026 election. Appointed in July 2025, he previously served in the Florida Senate and House and as state party chair.

Annette Taddeo is a Florida state senator, the first Latina Democrat elected to the Florida State Senate, first elected in a 2017 special election, per the campaign site.

Simpson is a fifth-generation Floridian and lifelong farmer who operates a large-scale egg-laying operation supplying Florida supermarkets, per the campaign site. He currently serves as Florida's Agriculture Commissioner and previously served in the state Senate, per the campaign site.

Joey Mendoza Atkins is the Democratic nominee for Florida agriculture commissioner. A lifelong Floridian, he earned a political science degree cum laude and a law degree, worked as a family-law attorney, and represented athletes as a Miami-area sports agent. His platform focuses on grocery costs, local farmers, and affordability.