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2026 Florida House race, District 1

Jimmy Patronis (Republican), Gay Valimont (Democrat) and Tyler L. Davis are on the November 3, 2026 ballot for U.S. House in Florida District 1, as recorded September 21, 2026 from the Florida Division of Elections.

The November ballot

Patronis
$3.8M
Valimont
$174K

Raised so far, filed with the FEC

Also in this race: Tyler L. Davis.

Official candidate list: Florida Division of Elections. Faces and bars are the campaigns that hold the seat or have $25,000 raised or outside spending on file; being outside that group is a filing fact, not a mark. Not a prediction.

The seat

Jimmy Patronis

Republican · Holds the seat now

First took office 2025 · Age 54

Discloses no individual stock trades.

Cosponsored H.R. 7008, the Stop Insider Trading Act

From the member's own disclosures and congress.gov. Not cosponsoring is not a vote against a ban.

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How to vote in Florida

  • General electionNovember 3, 2026 

Register 29 days before the election.

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How they won the primary

Republican primary

The primary · 88,529 votes

  • Jimmy Patronis Won: 71.1% 62,965
  • John Frankman: 19.5% 17,278
  • Douglas C. Chico: 9.4% 8,286

Primary results as recorded October 11, 2026, ordered by votes. Source: Florida Division of Elections certified primary results. Certified August 27, 2026. A primary result is a recorded fact about a past contest, not a prediction of November.

The money on this race

Raised by candidates
$4.7M
Outside money
$2.3M

Outside money, for and against

Supporting Patronis$2.1M
Opposing Patronis$47K
Supporting Valimont$96K
Opposing Valimont-

Independent expenditures; direction is each filer's own declared filing. No outside money is on file for or against the other name on this ballot.

Where each candidate's money comes from

19%$698KSmall donors$107K62%
63%$2.4MLarge donors$65K37%
15%$583KPACs$285<1%
<1%$5KParty$1K<1%
<1%$12KSelf-funding--
3%$105KOther$545<1%

Small donors give $200 or less; PACs are political action committees. Shares of each candidate's own receipts on file with the FEC. Outside money is not part of these figures.

Who is spending on this race

The largest groups spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.

1 to 5 of 19 groups

Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.

Not on the November ballot

10 filed

Primary candidates who did not advance, committees still on file, and candidacies that ended. Being here is a filing fact, not a mark against anyone.

The district

Census context
People
793K
Median household income
$78K
Unemployment
4.8%
Living below the poverty line
11.5%
Without health insurance
11.6%

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.

How this seat voted last time

R+15 in 2025

  • Jimmy Patronis Won: 56.9%
  • Gay Valimont: 42.3%

171,248 votes for candidates. It was a special election for the rest of the term, held April 1, 2025. Other candidates and write-ins took the remaining 0.8%. The district's lines have changed since this result. A past result is a filed fact, not a prediction of November.

Official returns from the Florida Division of Elections.

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Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Candidate totals are each campaign's latest FEC report, ending between March 4, 2025 and September 30, 2026. Outside money is the FEC's processed total of independent expenditures plus the 24- and 48-hour reports filed since each group's latest regular report. It covers this two-year cycle, the same as the candidate totals. Dataset built 2026-10-12. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.