St. Cloud, Florida sample ballot 2026

Olga Gonzalez served two terms on the Kissimmee City Commission, including as the city's mayor from 2020 to 2024, and founded the Church and Community Assistance Program nonprofit after a career at General Motors, per local election reporting. She is a qualified Republican candidate for Osceola County Commissioner District 2 on the November 3, 2026 ballot.

Viviana Janer is the sitting District 2 member of the Osceola County Commission, per the county's official board roster, and is seeking a fourth term. Born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, and raised in New York City, per her campaign materials, she is a qualified Democratic candidate for reelection on the November 3, 2026 ballot.

Mary Downey is the founder and CEO of Hope Partnership, a nonprofit focused on housing and homelessness in Osceola County, and was the Orlando Sentinel's 2019 Central Floridian of the Year, per her campaign materials. A former journalist turned minister and nonprofit executive, she was a qualified Democratic candidate for the open District 4 commission seat in the August 18, 2026 primary.

Donald A. Shroyer served two terms on the St. Cloud City Council and now volunteers in county schools and community groups, per his campaign site. He lists public safety and stronger infrastructure as his focus for District 4, and says he wants growth to be matched by road capacity and services.

Greg Filak is an executive at a Fortune 500 company and previously chaired the Celebration Community Development District board, per his News 6 voter guide questionnaire and local election reporting. He says the Osceola district's growth requires stronger long range planning, a school resource officer at every campus, and career and technical programs that connect students to employers beyond Central Florida.

Jay Wheeler is an Osceola County business owner, youth coach and former member of the Osceola County School Board, where he served from 2004 through 2018, per his campaign site and local election reporting. He says every board decision should put students first, and he is campaigning on career and technical instruction supplied through business partnerships, wider VPK enrollment, and restored after school transportation.

Natalie Guzman owns GC Tax, a small business she has run since 2014 serving families and small businesses in the community, per her campaign site. That site describes her focus as strong schools, safe campuses and making sure families have a voice in education.

Alyssa Noel is a marriage and family therapist who has worked in schools and homes, and has served as a School Advisory Council chair and school safety committee member, per her campaign materials. She was a qualified candidate for the open District 3 school board seat on the August 18, 2026 ballot.

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.