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Florida House race, District 1

Jimmy Patronis holds this seat and is running to keep it against Gay Valimont.

The November ballot

Patronis
$3.8M
Valimont
$174K

Raised so far, filed with the FEC

General-election ballot as recorded August 27, 2026. Not a prediction.

The seat

Jimmy Patronis

Republican · Holds the seat now

Discloses no individual stock trades.

Has not cosponsored a bill that would ban it

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, 2026In 10 weeks

Register 29 days before the election.

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How they won the primary

Republican primary

The primary · 88,443 votes

  • Jimmy PatronisWon71.1%62,911
  • John Frankman19.5%17,256
  • Douglas C. Chico9.4%8,276

Primary results as recorded August 27, 2026, in the canvass's own published order. Via Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), which cites each state's canvass. A primary result is a filed fact about a past contest, not a prediction of November.

The money on this race

Raised by candidates
$4.7M
Outside money
$2.2M

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.

Where each candidate's money comes from

18%$698KSmall donors$107K62%
63%$2.4MLarge donors$65K37%
15%$583KPACs$285<1%
<1%$5KParty$1K<1%
3%$105KOther$545<1%

Small donors give under $200; 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 12 groups spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.

1 to 5 of 12 groups

Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing. The groups named here account for $2.1M of the $2.2M total; the rest is smaller filers.

Not on the November ballot

11 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.

How this seat voted last time

R+32 in 2024

  • Matt GaetzWon66%
  • Gay Valimont34%

415,088 votes for candidates. A past result is a filed fact, not a prediction of November.

Certified returns via MIT Election Data and Science Lab, from the House Clerk's election statistics and state canvasses.

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Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain; money figures carry their own coverage dates. Dataset built 2026-08-27. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.