Everglades, Florida sample ballot 2026

Cody Davis is a historian who moved to Naples full-time in 2019, per his campaign materials. He is the Jeffersonian Party's qualified candidate for Collier County Commissioner District 2 on the November 3, 2026 ballot.

Chris Hall is the sitting District 2 member of the Collier County Commission and its current chairman, per the county's official board roster. First elected in 2022, he is a qualified Republican candidate for reelection on the November 3, 2026 ballot.

Daniel Kowal is the sitting District 4 member of the Collier County Commission and its current vice chairman, per the county's official board roster. A U.S. Army veteran who served as a combat medic and a retired law enforcement officer, per his official county biography, he was first elected in 2022 and was a qualified Republican candidate for reelection on the August 18, 2026 ballot.

Daniel Zegarac is a retired automotive dealership executive who served on the Avon, Ohio city council from 2010 to 2013, including as council president, and on the Willoughby Hills, Ohio council in 2020 and 2021, per his campaign materials. He moved to Naples in 2021 and was a qualified Republican candidate for the District 4 commission seat on the August 18, 2026 ballot.

Ford Dalusma is a graduate of Collier County Public Schools who comes from a family of educators, per local election coverage. His campaign theme is putting students and teachers first, and he was a qualified candidate for the District 5 school board seat on the August 18, 2026 ballot.

A registered nurse and Licensed Healthcare Risk Manager with about 30 years of healthcare administration experience, Sandra Lee Buxton is the incumbent Collier Mosquito Control District Seat 2 commissioner seeking a third term, per her campaign site and the district's board roster. Sandra Lee Buxton appears on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Collier Mosquito Control District Seat 2, per the Supervisor of Elections' official qualified-candidate list.

Bebe Kanter is a public policy analyst and ecological consultant with a career in commercial real estate finance, holding a Master of Science in Urban and Regional Planning from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, per her campaign site and her official candidate statement filed with the Collier County Supervisor of Elections. She has lived in Naples, Florida since 2015.

Ed Brandt is the sitting Collier Mosquito Control District commissioner for Seat 3, serving as the board's vice chair and secretary, per the district's board roster. He served 32 years in the National Guard, retiring as Chief Chaplain of the National Guard Bureau, and now serves Lely Presbyterian Church, per his campaign site.

Jay Kohlhagen is a senior superintendent in high rise construction with more than 46 years in the field, per his campaign site. He is seeking Seat 3 on the Collier Mosquito Control District board, where he says he would press for science based decisions, tighter accounting for chemical use and more transparency in district spending.

Chief executive officer of Gulf Coast Agency and founder of Stix Sushi & Seafood and Zen Fusion Restaurant Group, per his candidate statement filed with the Collier County Supervisor of Elections. He holds a bachelor's degree in business management and an MBA from Florida Gulf Coast University, serves on the boards of East Naples Civic & Commerce and the Autism Collier Resource Center, and was named to Gulfshore Business and Business Observer 40 Under 40 lists, per the same statement. No campaign website was found as of September 29, 2026.

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.