Leesburg, Florida sample ballot 2026

Sean M. Parks is the sitting District 2 county commissioner and board vice-chairman, per the county's official commissioner roster. He was a qualified Republican candidate in the August 18, 2026 primary.

Egor Emery works as an arborist, tree farmer and business owner, per his campaign site. He lives in Eustis and has been engaged in community work, including service on several local boards, per the same source. He is running as the Democratic candidate for Lake County Commission District 4 in 2026. Egor Emery appears on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Lake County Commissioner District 4, per the Supervisor of Elections' official qualified-candidate list.

Pat Kelley served nearly 20 years as mayor of Minneola and resigned effective May 19, 2026 to run for this School Board seat, per ClickOrlando; his campaign cites 35 years of corporate finance experience and nearly three decades as an adjunct professor, per his campaign site.

Eric Schwalbach has been a classroom teacher since 1996, teaching mathematics and coaching sports in Florida public schools at every grade level, per his campaign site. He is running for the open Lake County School Board District 1 seat, per the Florida Tribune, and has pledged to donate his school board salary toward tutoring and career and technical education programs, per his campaign site. Eric Schwalbach was on the August 18, 2026 ballot for Lake County School Board District 1, per the Supervisor of Elections' official qualified-candidate list.

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.