Elections · U.S. House, District 16 · Florida
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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 for this seat on November 3, 2026.
The ballot as filed by the nominee source, recorded August 27, 2026, not a prediction. Minor-party and write-in filers are on the race page.
Where the money comes from
- Small donors
- <1%$4K
- Large donors
- 86%$938K
- PACs
- 11%$121K
- Party
- --
- Self-funding
- 1%$7K
- Other
- 2%$19K
Receipts reported through July 29, 2026. Source: FEC.
How to vote in Florida
- General electionNovember 3, 2026In 10 weeks
Register 29 days before the election.
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.
Against the field for this seat
Each campaign's reported receipts on one shared scale, in ballot order, not money order.
- Mark Davis$51K
- Sydney Grutersthis page$1.1M
- Jonathan Harris$86K
- Kelly Kirschner$297K
- Tamika Lyles$122K
- Edward Pope$49K
- Jan Schneider$56K
Muted rows are campaigns not on the November ballot; their money is still their own filed record. Showing 7 of 9 funded campaigns; every filing is on the race page.
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 has not held this office, so there is no federal voting record, no cosponsorships and no committee service to report.
That absence is not a position for or against anything; it is what a first federal campaign looks like in the public record.
Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.