DeLand, Florida sample ballot 2026

Nancy J. Miller has served as mayor of Daytona Beach Shores since 2018, per local election reporting. She was a qualified candidate for the open at-large County Council seat in the August 18, 2026 primary.

Mike Poniatowski spent more than four decades in Volusia County public safety as a firefighter, deputy sheriff, paramedic, flight medic, and ambulance operations director, per his campaign materials. He was a qualified candidate for the open at-large County Council seat in the August 18, 2026 primary.

Beery is a former teacher with classroom and school administration experience, and also has business leadership experience, per the campaign site.

Jamie Michele Haynes holds the District 1 seat on the Volusia County School Board, where she has served since 2018 and is the board's vice chair, per the district's official board roster. She was a qualified candidate for reelection in the August 18, 2026 primary.

Grace Kellermeier taught 18 years at New Smyrna Beach High School, was Volusia's 2015 Teacher of the Year, and spent nine years in the district curriculum office, per her News 6 questionnaire.

Jessie Thompson holds the District 3 seat on the Volusia County School Board, where she has served since 2022 and is the board's chair, per the district's official board roster; she is the only member with children in district schools, per her News 6 questionnaire.

Dean Condon is a nonprofit executive, per local election reporting on the qualified field. He was a qualified candidate for School Board District 5 on the August 18, 2026 ballot.

Markle is a nurse, educator, advocate and healthcare leader with 28 years of experience, including work as an EMT, licensed practical nurse, registered nurse and legal nurse consultant, per the campaign site. He holds a bachelor of science in nursing from the University of Phoenix and has served as a volunteer firefighter since 1995, per the campaign site.

Angie Nixon is a Florida state representative from Jacksonville, a union organizer and a mother, per the campaign site. She is executive director of Florida for All, a statewide coalition, and runs a bookstore and community hub in Jacksonville, per the campaign site. The campaign site says she expanded child care in the State House and led the fight against the state's new voting maps, per the campaign site.

Donalds is a member of Congress representing Florida's 19th District since January 2021, per the chamber's membership roster. 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.

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.

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.