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Drew WilsonNovember 7, 2018

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Tuesday’s top-of-ticket results didn’t give Florida Democrats much reason to cheer, but incoming House Minority Leader Kionne McGhee says the party made decent inroads into the GOP’s intractable advantage in the state House. The victories highlighted: Joy Goff-Marcil in HD 30, Geraldine Thompson in HD 44, Anna Eskamani in HD 47, Adam Hattersley in HD […]

Drew WilsonNovember 7, 2018

Just like two years ago, the path for a Democratic flip or tie in the state Senate ran through Gainesville-based District 8. With only a few votes left to be counted, SD 8 voters appear to have decided they’ll stay the course and re-elect Republican Sen. Keith Perry over his Democratic challenger, Kayser Enneking, keeping the […]

Scott PowersNovember 6, 2018

In two nail-biter elections that followed their Republican colleague’s surprising loss earlier in the evening, Republican state Rep. Scott Plakon was re-elected Tuesday and David Smith won election to another Seminole County seat that had always been held by Republicans. But neither won easily. Plakon defeated Democrat Tracey Kagan 51 percent to 49 percent to […]

Scott PowersNovember 6, 2018

Democratic former state Sen. Geraldine Thompson is back, grabbing a House District from Republican state Rep. Bobby Olszewski that once was considered such safe Republican seat that no previous Democrat has ever been competitive. Thompson claimed House District 44, covering suburban southwestern Orange County Tuesday night, defeating Olszewski by 2,000 votes and a 51 percent […]

Drew WilsonNovember 6, 2018

Florida voters had to fight back some “ballot fatigue” Tuesday, with no less than a dozen amendments following the razzle dazzle races for Governor and U.S. Senate getting people to the polls in record numbers for a midterm election. Some of those amendments have hogged the spotlight, none more so than Amendment 4, which would […]

Drew WilsonNovember 6, 2018

An amendment that will ban offshore drilling and treated the public use of e-cigarettes like their analogue cousins was approved by Florida voters in Tuesday’s elections. Amendment 9 was among a dozen initiatives Floridians considered in the ballot booth on Tuesday, and one of seven ballot questions green-lit by the Florida Constitution Revision Commission. Amendment 9 […]

Drew WilsonNovember 6, 2018

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A ballot measure that requires a two-thirds vote by the state Legislature for any future tax increases was approved by Florida voters Tuesday. Amendment 5 was up 66 percent-34 percent as of 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Constitutional amendments need no less than 60 percent of the vote to pass. Also known as the “Supermajority Vote Required to Impose, […]

Scott PowersNovember 6, 2018

Republicans are sweeping all four Florida House seats Tuesday, returning state Reps. Rene Plasencia, Thad Altman, and Randy Fine to office and keeping the other in GOP control by electing Tyler Sirois. None of the four had much trouble, in what turned out to be a pretty red wave washing ashore along the Space Coast. […]

Scott PowersNovember 6, 2018

Riding what arguably has been a movement based entirely on her campaign, Democratic Anna Eskamani is on her way to easy election Tuesday to Florida’s House District 47, flipping the seat and sending the progressive avenger to Tallahassee. Eskamani, a young progressive activist and former Planned Parenthood official, defeated Republican businessman and former political consultant […]

Scott PowersNovember 6, 2018

Democratic U.S. Rep. Darren Soto won himself a second term as the only Puerto Rican member of Congress from Florida, representing Florida’s most Puerto-Rican district. Soto, of Celebration defeated Republican businessman Wayne Liebnitzky Tuesday in a rematch of the election that sent Soto to Congress in 2018.This time Soto won 58 percent to 42 percent, […]

Tag: 2018 election

HD 26, HD 89 recounts to decide final split in Florida House

Keith Perry holds off Kayser Enneking to win second Senate term

Scott Plakon re-elected, David Smith wins in Seminole House seats

Geraldine Thompson topples Bobby Olszewski in HD 44

Ballot B-Sides: Voters approve Amendments 7, 10, 11 and 12

Voters pass ban on offshore drilling, indoor vaping

Supermajority tax amendment approved by supermajority of voters

Republicans keep all four Brevard County House seats

Anna Eskamani elected in HD 47

Darren Soto coasts to easy re-election in CD 9