The November ballot
Raised so far, filed with the FEC
Also in this race: Neil Gillespie.
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
Ashley Moody
Republican · Holds the seat now
First took office 2025 · Age 51
From the member's own disclosures and congress.gov. Not cosponsoring is not a vote against a ban.
How to vote in Florida
- General electionNovember 3, 2026
Register 29 days before the election.
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How they won the primary
The primary · 1,258,973 votes
- Angie Nixon Won: 56.1% 705,835
- Alex Vindman: 43.9% 553,138
The primary · 1,660,013 votes
- Ashley Moody Won: 79.6% 1,320,780
- Chris Gleason: 13.7% 228,010
- Ernie Rivera: 4.8% 79,973
- Neelam Taneja Perry: 1.9% 31,250
Primary results as recorded October 12, 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
- $29M
- Outside money
- $6.1M
Outside money, for and against
Independent expenditures; direction is each filer's own declared filing. The other $2.2K of the race's $6.1M was spent on candidates not listed here. No outside money is on file for or against the other name on this ballot.
Where each candidate's money comes from
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.
Other includes money transferred in from committees the candidate authorized, such as a joint fundraising committee, which reports its own donors to the FEC: Ashley Moody $4.2M.
Who is spending on this race
The largest groups spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.
Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.
Not on the November ballot
29 filed- Chris GleasonRepublican$26K
- Jake LangRepublican$33K
- Hector MujicaDemocrat$857K
- Alex VindmanDemocrat$16M
- Joshua WeilDemocrat$16M
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.
How this seat voted last time
R+16 in 2022
- Marco Rubio Won: 57.7%
- Val Demings: 41.3%
7,758,014 votes for candidates. Other candidates and write-ins took the remaining 1.0%. The 2026 race is a special election; this is the seat's last regular contest. 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.
Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Candidate totals are reported to the FEC through July 29, 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 each candidate's own campaign: the years since their previous federal election, up to the six their totals cover. Dataset built 2026-10-12. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.