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Elections · U.S. House, District 16 · Florida

Sydney Gruters

Republican On the November ballot

grutersforcongress.com

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The Gruters cardThe race card

Raised for this seat

$1.1M

Through July 29, 2026

Cash on hand

$622K

Through July 29, 2026

On the November ballot

Gruters faces Kelly Kirschner and Mark Davis for this seat on November 3, 2026.

Kelly KirschnerDemocrat · $297KSydney Grutersthis pageRepublican · $1.1MMark DavisNominee · $51K

The general-election ballot as recorded September 8, 2026, not a prediction. Official candidate list: Florida Division of Elections. Minor-party and write-in filers are on the race page.

The whole race

Where the money comes from

<1%from small donors
Small donors
<1%$4.1K
Large donors
86%$938K
PACs
11%$121K
Party
--
Self-funding
<1%$7K
Other
2%$19K

Separately, $1.7M in independent expenditures was reported for and against this candidate by outside committees. That money is not the candidate's receipts and is not part of the mix above.

Receipts reported through July 29, 2026. Source: FEC.

How to vote in Florida

  • General electionNovember 3, 2026 

Register 29 days before the election.

All dates and rules

The district they want to represent

People
831K
Median household income
$85K
Unemployment
4.4%
Living below the poverty line
9.7%
Without health insurance
10.4%

U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Context about the district, not a statement about any candidate. These figures describe the district as drawn before its lines changed for 2026; estimates for the new lines are not yet published.

Against the field for this seat

Each campaign's reported receipts on one shared scale, incumbent first and then by name, never in money order.

Muted rows are campaigns not on the November ballot; their money is still their own filed record. Showing 7 of the 9 campaigns that hold the seat, are on the ballot, or have $25,000 raised or outside spending; every filing is on the race page.

The whole race

Spending to support them

$1.6M
  • Conservatives for American Excellence$1.0M
  • Defend American Jobs$502K
    Cryptocurrency industry (Republican-directed)
  • WFW Action Fund$93K
  • Stand for Freedom PAC$11K

Spending to oppose them

$63K
  • American Democracy Project$63K
How these directions are decided

Independent expenditures reported to the FEC, through October 5, 2026. The supporting or opposing direction is each committee's own declared filing, not an interpretation, and a group spending against a candidate is not necessarily spending for their opponent. Outside money is not the campaign's money and is never added to what they raised.

In their own words

What Gruters's campaign says it would work on.

The priorities Gruters's own campaign site lists, quoted as written there. They are what the campaign says. Nobody has voted on them.

  • “Leadership We Can Trust”
  • “President Donald Trump”
  • “Rick Scott”
  • “Grady Judd”
  • “Rick Wells”
  • “Bob Gualtieri”
  • “Kurt Hoffman”
  • “Vent Crawford”
  • “Jim Potter”
  • “Chad Chronister”
  • “Mike Johnson”
  • “Steve Scalise”

Quoted from grutersforcongress.com, read August 14, 2026. A campaign site changes; this is what it said on that date. Curia quotes these and does not check, rate or rank them.

Record in office

Gruters does not hold a seat in Congress now, so there is no current voting record, cosponsorships or committee service to show here.

That absence is not a position for or against anything.

Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.

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