North Miami Beach, Florida sample ballot 2026

Cothiere Aristide has more than a decade of classroom experience teaching in Miami-Dade public schools and has built adult-education programs connecting neighbors to careers, per the campaign site. Her husband served the district for more than 30 years, including as principal of Miami Northwestern Senior High, per the campaign site.

Wilson has spent more than 30 years in education as a teacher, principal and district administrator, and she previously served as a Miami Gardens city councilwoman, per the campaign site. She led the Miami Gardens Juneteenth Experience for six consecutive years and has mentored emerging community leaders throughout her career, per the campaign site.

Monica Colucci is the incumbent District 8 school board member and board vice chair, per Miami Herald coverage. She is an elementary school teacher with 26 years in Miami-Dade public schools and briefly served as a special assistant in Gov. Ron DeSantis's office, per her campaign site.

McNeil began his legal career at the Miami-Dade Public Defender's Office and was promoted to Senior Supervising Attorney, overseeing as many as 20 attorneys, per the campaign site. He has tried more than 65 cases, mostly jury trials through verdict, and ran a private law practice handling criminal and civil matters from 2008 to 2016 across Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties, per the campaign site. He is a Florida Supreme Court certified circuit civil court mediator, per the campaign site.

Baez has practiced law for 30 years in private practice, litigating thousands of cases with extensive experience in civil litigation, bankruptcy, and family law, per the campaign site. She holds a J.D. from St. Thomas University School of Law and a B.S. in International Finance and Marketing from the University of Miami, per the campaign site. A lifelong Miami native, she is the daughter of Cuban immigrants; her father was a physician who served on the medical team for the April 17, 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion, per the campaign site.

Jones-Peabody has spent more than 35 years practicing in Florida courtrooms, conducting 200 criminal jury trials and handling 75 civil cases, per the campaign site. She was born and raised in Miami-Dade and has served the community as an attorney and civic leader, 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.