These are projections and not official results.
Escambia County:
Escambia County Commission District 4:
Robert Bender-R (I) Winner
Myra Van Hoose- D
Escambia County School Board District 2:
Paul Fetsko (I)
Raymond Guillory
Emerald Coast Utilities Authority District 2:
Lois Benson (I)
Chase Anderson “Andy” Romagnano
Escambia County EDATE referendum:
This referendum asks Escambia County whether to vote on whether to extend a 10-year property tax exemption aimed at recruitment of new businesses and expansion of existing ones.
YES
NO
Pensacola City Council District 2:
Charles Bare Winner
Charletha Powell
Pensacola City Council District 6
Ann Hill (I)
Allison Patton
Proposed Amendments to the City of Pensacola Charter
Earlier this year, the City of Pensacola underwent a review of its Charter, which is required once every ten years. The review process resulted in five proposed charter amendments that have been placed on the Nov. General Election ballot.
City of Pensacola - Referendum Question No. 1
Shall the Charter be amended to delete, add or revise provisions including the preamble; scope of municipal powers; duties of Mayor and Council Members; removing Council staff; notice of special meetings; computation of time; procedures for adopting Charter amendments and for appointing members to Charter Review Commission; and deleting transitional language from original charter.
YES
NO
City of Pensacola - Referendum Question No. 2
Shall the Charter be amended to provide that City Clerk and City Attorney shall have the sole power to hire, discipline and terminate staff and employees supervised by them and that neither Mayor nor City Council shall interfere with the exercise of that power?
YES
NO
City of Pensacola - Referendum Question No. 3
Shall the Charter be amended to reduce filing fees for candidates for offices of Mayor and City Council; reduce the percentage of signatures needed for being placed on a ballot for either the office of Mayor or City Council; and further reduce, during decennial census years, the percentage of signatures needed for candidates for Mayor or City Council to be placed on the ballot?
YES
NO
City of Pensacola - Referendum Question No. 4
Shall the Charter be amended to provide that the annual salary of members of City Council be set each year by a formula derived from Florida Legislature’s Office of Economic and Demographic Research, beginning in 2024 and continuing thereafter for each fiscal year that a member is in office?
YES
NO
City of Pensacola - Referendum Question No. 5
Shall the Charter be amended to add a further exception to the powers of initiative for ordinances and of referendum for any measures passed by the City Council regarding the compelling of government speech in a particular manner; and to clarify the timing of and procedures for petitioning for initiative and referendum?
YES
NO
Santa Rosa County:
Santa Rosa County Commissioner District 2
Kerry Smith Winner
Clifton Wheeler (Write-in candidate)
Santa Rosa County Commissioner District 4
Ray Eddington-R Winner
Dave Piech-R (I)
Santa Rosa County School Board District 5
Scott Peden Winner
Pete Peters
City of Milton Mayor
Mary Johnson
Heather Lindsay (I) Winner
"Fireman" Dan Stillings
Milton City Council Ward 1
Vernon Compton
Mike Cusack Winner
Milton City Council Ward 2
Marilyn Farrow has won by one vote and will go into recount.
Wesley Meiss
Milton City Council Ward 3
Gavin Hawthorne Winner
Robert Leek
Milton City Council Ward 4
Shari Sebastiao
Jason Vance Winner
Referendum Holley Navarre Fire District Ad Valorem
Do you approve authorizing the Holley Navarre Fire District to levy ad valorem taxes against the taxable real estate within the district with a millage cap of 3.75 mills as authorized by Florida law, instead of current non-ad valorem assessments?
YES
NO
Creation of Special Fire District for Navarre Beach
YES
NO
City of Gulf Breeze Mayor
Jim Doyle
Cherry Fitch (I) Winner
City of Gulf Breeze City Council Seat C
Michael C. Dauser
Todd Torgersen Winner
City of Gulf Breeze Seat D
Randy Hebert Winner
Todd Whitaker
City of Gulf Breeze Charter Revision Question:
Shall the current City Charter be repealed and replaced with a comprehensively restated Charter that conforms to municipal home rule powers granted by Florida law; maintains the City’s Council-Manager form of government; changes the term of the Mayor to four years; describes and clarifies the duties, responsibilities, and authority of City officials; and updates other provisions and language?
YES– For adopting the restated City Charter
No– Against adopting the restated City Charter
Okaloosa County
Special Deannexation Referendum for Laurel Hill
Shall the City adopt an ordinance providing that your property together with 28 other parcels of land constituting a total of approximately 176.68 acres of land be removed and de-annexed from the City of Laurel Hill, Florida city limits and instead become part of unincorporated Okaloosa, County, Florida?
For Deannexation 83.3% of vote
Against Deannexation
The Special Referendum for North Okaloosa Fire District
Shall the North Okaloosa Fire District collect impact fees for new residential construction at $0.30 per square foot and new commercial construction at $0.40 per square foot? Impact fees are for new construction only, not currently developed properties. Per Florida Statute, revenue collected from impact fees can only be used for capital goods such as firefighting equipment and trucks. Would you like to support NOFD collecting these fees?
YES 63%
NO
City of Destin Mayor:
Rodney Braden
Bobby Wagner Winner
Statewide Races
Florida’s 1st Congressional District
Matt Gaetz-R (I) Winner
Rebekah Jones-D
Florida State Sen. 1
Doug Broxson-R (I) Winner
Charlie Nichols-D
Florida House Dist. 1
Francine C. Mathis-D
Michelle Salzman-R (I) Winner
Florida House Dist. 2
Alex Andrade-R (I) Winner
Carollyn Taylor-D
Florida House Dist. 3
Joel Rudman-R Winner
Sandra Maddox (write-in candidate)
Florida Governor
Charlie Crist-D
Ron DeSanti-R Winner
Florida U.S. Senate
Val Demings-D
Marco Rubio-R (I) Winner
Dennis Misigoy (Libertarian Party)
Attorney General
Aramis Ayala-D
Ashley Moody-R (I) Winner
Chief Financial Officer
Adam Hattersley
Jimmy Patronis (I) Winner
Commissioner of Agriculture
Naomi Esther Blemur- D
Wilton Simpson-R Winner
Amendment 1- Limit on increased property assessment for flood improvements. Amendment needs 60% of vote to pass.
YES
NO
Amendment 2- Abolish the state Constitution Revision Commission
YES
NO
Amendment 3- New $50,000 homestead exemption for certain
YES
NO