The 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida were held on Tuesday, November 4, 2014 to elect the 27 U.S. representatives from the state of

Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and ...

, one from each of the state's 27 congressional districts. The elections coincided with the elections of other federal and state offices, including

Governor of Florida A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...

. There was no net party change, as Democrat

Gwen Graham Gwendolyn Graham (born January 31, 1963) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 2015 to 2017. She is the daughter of Bob Graham, the former United States senator and governor of Florida. A Democrat, ...

defeated Republican incumbent Steve Southerland in the 2nd district, while Republican

Carlos Curbelo Carlos Luis Curbelo (born March 1, 1980) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Florida's 26th congressional district from 2015 to 2019. In 2018, he was narrowly defeated for re-election by Democrat Debbie Mucarse ...

defeated Democratic incumbent

Joe Garcia José Antonio Garcia Jr. (born October 12, 1963), known as Joe Garcia, is an American attorney and politician. Garcia represented in the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015. A Democrat, Garcia represented most of western Miami-Dade Co ...

in the 26th district.

Overview

Results of the 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida by district:

District 1

Republican Jeff Miller has represented the district since 2001. Retired Army officer and 2010 Democratic nominee Jim Bryan is challenging him again as a Democrat.

Republican primary

General election

District 2

Republican Steve Southerland has represented the district since being elected in 2010.

, a Leon County school administrator and the daughter of

Bob Graham Daniel Robert "Bob" Graham (born November 9, 1936) is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as the 38th governor of Florida from 1979 to 1987 and a United States senator from Florida from 1987 to 2005. He is a member of the De ...

, a former United States Senator and

, announced that she would run against incumbent Republican Congressman Steve Southerland in 2014. She won the race by a narrow 1.2% margin.

General election

Polling

Results

District 3

Republican

Ted Yoho Theodore Scott Yoho ( ; born April 13, 1955) is an American politician, veterinarian, and businessman who served as the U.S. representative from from 2013 until 2021. He is a member of the Republican Party. In the 2012 Republican primary elect ...

has represented the district since 2012, defeating Republican incumbent Cliff Stearns in the primary. Jake Rush, an attorney and former

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Sheriff's deputy is challenging Yoho in the Republican primary. Following the launch of his campaign, he received national media attention related to his involvement with

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(particularly the supernaturally themed

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) and costuming. Middle school art teacher Marihelen Wheeler challenged Yoho as a Democrat.

Republican primary

General election

District 4

Republican

Ander Crenshaw Alexander Mann "Ander" Crenshaw (born September 1, 1944) is an American banker, attorney, and politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 2001 to 2017. He is a member of the Republican Party. Crenshaw retired from Congress when ...

has represented the district since 2000. US Navy veteran Ryman Shoaf challenged Crenshaw in the Republican primary. The Democratic Party did not run a candidate in this race.

Republican primary

General election

District 5

Democrat

Corrine Brown Corrine Brown (born November 11, 1946) is an American former politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida from 1993 to 2017 and a convicted felon. She is a member of the Democratic Party. After a court-ord ...

has represented the district since being elected in 2012. She previously represented the 3rd district from 1993 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting. Businesswoman Glo Smith, a former staff aide to Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll, is challenging Brown as a Republican.

Republican primary

General election

District 6

Republican

Ron DeSantis Ronald Dion DeSantis (; born September 14, 1978) is an American politician serving as the 46th governor of Florida since January 2019. A member of the Republican Party, DeSantis represented Florida's 6th district in the U.S. House of Repres ...

has represented the district since being elected in 2012. David Cox, director of resources at Bethune-Cookman University, is challenging DeSantis as a Democrat.

General election

District 7

Republican

John Mica John Luigi Mica (born January 27, 1943) is an American businessman, consultant and Republican politician who represented in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2017. He was defeated by Democrat Stephanie Murphy in the November 8, 201 ...

has represented the 7th District, which includes most of Seminole County, the main campus of the

University of Central Florida The University of Central Florida (UCF) is a public research university whose main campus is in unincorporated Orange County, Florida. UCF also has nine smaller regional campuses throughout central Florida. It is part of the State Universi ...

in Orange County, and parts of Deltona in

Volusia County Volusia County (, ) is located in the east-central part of the U.S. state of Florida, stretching between the St. Johns River and the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2020 census, the county was home to 553,543 people, an increase of 11.9% from the ...

, since 1992. In 2012, when Mica ran for re-election in the redrawn district, he won with 59% of the vote, his smallest margin of victory in twenty years. Congressman Mica is running for re-election in 2014, and he was challenged by Wes Neuman, a Democrat who served as a

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intern and worked as an analyst for LMI. Polling taken during the

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showed that Mica was vulnerable to an opponent, with only 33% of the district's voters indicating that they approved of his performance, while 50% disapproved. The early predictions proved to be unfounded, and Mica's popularity rebounded considerably over the summer of 2014. Mica was a heavy favorite to win the GOP primary, and on August 26, trounced his GOP challengers with over 72% of the vote. On September 25, 2014, after over a month of keeping a low profile, Democratic challenger Wes Neuman announced he "made a mistake" in challenging Mica and would no longer be actively campaigning. Al Krulick appeared on the ballot with no party affiliation.

Republican primary

General election

Polling

Results

District 8

Republican

Bill Posey William Joseph Posey (born December 18, 1947) is an American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for , in Congress since 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he formerly served in the Florida Senate and the Florida ...

has represented the district since being elected in 2012. He previously represented the 15th district from 2009 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting.

General election

District 9

Democrat

Alan Grayson Alan Mark Grayson (born March 13, 1958) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 2009 to 2011 and from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was defeated for reelection in 2010 by Republican Daniel ...

has represented the district since being elected in 2012. He previously represented the 8th district from 2009 to 2011, prior to the decennial redistricting. Grayson was challenged in the primary by Democrat Nick Ruiz, a professor from the

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. In 2012, Ruiz ran for the Democratic nomination in FL-07, but lost to Jason Kendall. Ruiz made a somewhat surprising move to FL-09 for 2014, but was defeated handily by Grayson in the primary 74%-26%. On the Republican side, a three-way primary race was held between Carol Platt, Jorge Bonilla, and businessman Peter Vivaldi. Platt, who is from the Osceola County Realtors Association, received endorsements from

Jeb Bush John Ellis "Jeb" Bush (born February 11, 1953) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. Bush, who grew up in Houston, was the second son of former President George H. W. Bush ...

and

Marco Rubio Marco Antonio Rubio (born May 28, 1971) is an American politician and lawyer serving as the Seniority in the United States Senate, senior United States Senate, United States senator from Florida, a seat he has held since 2011. A member of the ...

, and took 54.4% of the vote. Bonilla, a navy veteran, finished a distant second, and Vivaldi third. The general election will pit Grayson against Platt, along with independent Marko Milakovich.

Republican primary

Democratic primary

General election

Polling

Results

District 10

Republican

Daniel Webster Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison ...

has represented the district since being elected in 2012. He previously represented the 8th district from 2011 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting.

Val Demings Valdez Venita Demings (née Butler; born March 12, 1957) is an American politician and former police officer serving as the U.S. representative from since 2017. The district covers most of the western half of Orlando and includes much of the a ...

, who was the Democratic nominee in 2012, considered a second run against Webster, but chose to run for

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, instead. Ultimately, she pulled out of that race as well. Webster was unopposed in the Republican primary. On the Democrat side, three candidates faced off in the August 26 primary. The candidates includes former Eustis

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William Ferree, civil rights lawyer and

Trayvon Martin Trayvon Benjamin Martin (February 5, 1995 – February 26, 2012) was a 17-year-old African-American from Miami Gardens, Florida, who was fatally shot in Sanford, Florida, by George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old Hispanic American. Martin had accompa ...

family attorney

Shayan Modarres Shayan Modarres (born May 15, 1984) is an Iranian American, civil rights activist and attorney in Orlando, Florida. He is originally from the Washington, D.C./Maryland metropolitan area. He has assisted in the representation of the family of Trayvo ...

, and former

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Mike McKenna. McKenna, a

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security officer (49.73%) won the Democratic primary, and will face Webster in the November general election. McKenna spent only $5,000 on his primary campaign, a fraction of his two opponents. In the general election, Webster was a decided favorite, and ran only a few television ads. With very little money in his campaign funds, McKenna ran no ads, instead counting on a grass-roots, "door-to-door" campaign. Webster easily cruised to reelection by a margin of 62% to 38%.

Democratic primary

General election

District 11

Republican

Rich Nugent Richard B. "Rich" Nugent (born May 26, 1951) is an American retired law enforcement officer and former United States Congressman. He is a member of the Republican Party. He is a former Sheriff of Hernando County, Florida. On November 2, 2010, Ri ...

has represented the district since being elected in 2012. He previously represented the 5th district from 2011 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting.

General election

District 12

Republican

Gus Bilirakis Gus Michael Bilirakis ( ; born February 8, 1963) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, he first entered Congress in 2007, where he succeeded his father Michael Bi ...

has represented the district since being elected in 2012. He previously represented the 9th district from 2007 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting. No candidates filed to challenge Bilirakis for his seat, so he will return to office without standing for election in 2014.

District 13

On October 9, 2013, Republican

Bill Young Charles William Young (December 16, 1930 – October 18, 2013) was an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1971 until his death in 2013. A Republican from Florida, Young served as chairman of the H ...

, who had held this Tampa Bay-area district since 1971, announced that he would not run for re-election to a twenty-second term in 2014. He died 9 days later and a special election was held, which Republican David Jolly won. Jolly is running for a full term.

Republican primary

;Candidates ;Declared * David Jolly, incumbent U.S. Representative

Democratic primary

;Candidates No Democratic candidate filed to run for Congress before the end of the qualifying period. The

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announced that it would support Independent candidate Ed Jany. Jany dropped out of the race on May 13, 2014. ;Withdrew *

Manuel Sykes Manuel Sykes is an American pastor and civic leader from the state of Florida. Career Sykes attended the Luther Rice Seminary & University, graduating in 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He then enrolled at Drew University, where he gradu ...

, president of the St. Petersburg

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;Declined *

Charlie Crist Charles Joseph Crist Jr. (; born July 24, 1956) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 44th governor of Florida from 2007 to 2011 and as the U.S. representative for from 2017 to 2022. Crist has been a member of the Democratic ...

, former

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and

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candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2010 ( running for Governor) *

Jessica Ehrlich Jessica Ehrlich is a democratic analyst and attorney specializing in strategic communications and public affairs. She was the Democratic nominee for Florida's 13th congressional district in 2012, losing to long-time incumbent and House Appropriat ...

, lawyer and nominee for the seat in 2012 * Charlie Justice, Pinellas County Commissioner and nominee for

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Rick Kriseman Richard David Kriseman (born August 2, 1962) is an American politician who served as the 53rd Mayor of St. Petersburg from 2014 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a member of the Florida House of Representatives, ...

, former state representative and Mayor of

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* Eric Lynn, senior White House Middle East policy adviser and former aide to Congressman

Peter Deutsch Peter R. Deutsch (born April 1, 1957) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida. Deutsch was a Democratic Representative from Florida's 20th congressional district from 1993 until 2005. Background Deutsch was born in the bor ...

Darryl Rouson Darryl Ervin Rouson (born July 20, 1955) is a Democratic member of the Florida Senate who has represented the 16th district (The 19th district until 2022), which includes parts of Pinellas and Hillsborough Counties from downtown St. Petersbur ...

, state representative *

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, former

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, nominee for governor in 2010 and nominee for the seat in the special election * Ken Welch, Pinellas County Commissioner * Peter Rudy Wallace, former

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of the

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;Polling

Libertarian candidates

* Lucas Overby, activist, commercial diver, and nominee for the seat in the

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Independent candidates

;Withdrew * Ed Jany, retired Army Colonel

General election

;Candidates * David Jolly (Republican) * Lucas Overby (Libertarian)

Polling

Results

District 14

Democrat

Kathy Castor Katherine Anne Castor (born August 20, 1966) is an American politician and lawyer currently representing in the United States House of Representatives, serving since 2007. The district, numbered as the 11th district from 2007 to 2013, is base ...

has represented the district since being elected in 2012. She previously represented the 11th district from 2007 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting. No candidates filed to challenge Castor for her seat, so she will return to office without standing for election in 2014.

District 15

Republican Dennis A. Ross has represented the district since being elected in 2012. He previously represented the 12th district from 2011 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting.

Alan Cohn Alan Michael Cohn is an American journalist who was the Democratic nominee in the 2022 U.S. House of Representatives election in Florida's 15th congressional district. Personal life and education Cohn has two children with his wife, Patricia. ...

, a former investigative reporter, is the Democratic nominee.

General election

Polling

Results

District 16

Republican

Vern Buchanan Vernon Gale Buchanan ( ; born May 8, 1951) is an American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 16th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, he first entered Congress in 2007, rep ...

has represented the district since being elected in 2012. He previously represented the 16th district from 2009 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting. 101-year-old Joe Newman is running as a write-in candidate.

General election

Results

District 17

Republican Tom Rooney has represented the district since being elected in 2012. He previously represented the 13th district from 2007 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting.

General election

District 18

Democrat Patrick Murphy has represented the district since being elected in 2012, defeating Republican incumbent Allen West. West has said he will not run again. Republican Adam Hasner, the former Majority Leader of the

and nominee for the 22nd congressional district in

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had considered running but ultimately declined to do so. Republican

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Councilwoman Ellen Andel, who had declared her candidacy in May 2013, withdrew from the race in February 2014. Despite West's endorsement, she posted poor fundraising numbers and began 2014 with only $5,537 cash-on-hand, to Murphy's $1.8 million. Still in the race for the Republican nomination are

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nurse Beverly Hires, former state representative Carl J. Domino, former

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Councilman Calvin Turnquest, Stuart computer software developer Brian Lara, and former mayor of

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, former Connecticut State Representative and nominee for the U.S. Senate from Connecticut in 2006

Alan Schlesinger Alan Schlesinger, (aka Alan Gold) (born January 4, 1958) is an American attorney, entrepreneur, and Republican politician from Florida. He has previously served as the Mayor of Derby, Connecticut from 1994 to 1998 and as a member of the Connect ...

Republican primary

General election

Polling

* * Internal poll for the Patrick Murphy campaign

Results

District 19

Republican Trey Radel was elected to represent the 19th district in 2012. He resigned on January 27, 2014, requiring a

to fill the remainder of his term. That election was won by fellow Republican Curt Clawson.

Republican primary

;Candidates ;Declared * Paige Kreegel, former state representative and candidate for the 19th congressional district in 2012 ;Potential * Chauncey Goss, political consultant and candidate for the 19th congressional district in 2012 *

Connie Mack IV Cornelius Harvey McGillicuddy (born August 12, 1967), popularly known as Connie Mack IV, is an American politician and lobbyist. He is the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 2005 to 2013. A Republican, he ran for the U.S. Senate in ...

, former U.S. Representative and nominee for U.S. Senate in 2012 ;Declined * Lizbeth Benacquisto, state senator

General election

District 20

Democrat

Alcee Hastings Alcee Lamar Hastings ( ; September 5, 1936 – April 6, 2021) was an American politician and judge from the state of Florida. Hastings was nominated to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida by President Jimmy Cart ...

has represented the district since being elected in 2012. He previously represented the 13th district from 1993 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting.

Democratic primary

General election

District 21

Democrat

Ted Deutch Theodore Eliot Deutch ( ; born May 7, 1966) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative from Florida's 22nd congressional district from 2010 to 2022. His district, numbered as the 19th district from 2010 to 2013 a ...

has represented the district since being elected in 2012. He previously represented the 19th district from 2010 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting.

Democratic primary

General election

District 22

Democrat Lois Frankel has represented the district since being elected in 2012.

Republican primary

General election

District 23

Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz has represented the district since being elected in 2012. She previously represented the 20th district from 2005 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting.

Republican primary

General election

District 24

Democrat

Frederica Wilson Frederica Smith Wilson (born Frederica Patricia Smith, November 5, 1942) is an American politician who has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 2011, representing . Located in South Florida, Wilson's congressional dis ...

has represented the district since being elected in 2012. She previously represented the 17th district from 2011 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting.

Democratic primary

General election

District 25

Republican Mario Diaz-Balart has represented the district since 2012. He previously represented the 21st district from 2011 to 2013, as well as a different version of the 25th from 2003 to 2011, prior to the decennial redistricting. No candidates filed to challenge Diaz-Balart for his seat, so he will return to office without standing for election in 2014.

District 26

Democrat

Joe García José Antonio Garcia Jr. (born October 12, 1963), known as Joe Garcia, is an American attorney and politician. Garcia represented in the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015. A Democrat, Garcia represented most of western Miami-Dade Cou ...

has represented the 26th district since being elected in 2012.

Republican primary

;Candidates ;Declared *

, member of the Miami-Dade County Public School Board * Ed MacDougall, mayor of

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* Joe Martinez, former Miami-Dade County commissioner * David Rivera, former U.S. Representative ;Declined *

Anitere Flores Anitere Flores (born September 8, 1976) is a Republican politician from Miami, Florida. She served three terms in the Florida House of Representatives from 2004 to 2010. Subsequently, she served in the Florida Senate from 2010 to 2020. In the 20 ...

, state senator

Results

General election

Polling

Results

District 27

Republican

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (; born Ileana Carmen Ros y Adato, July 15, 1952) is a politician and lobbyist from Miami, Florida, who represented from 1989 to 2019. By the end of her tenure, she was the most senior U.S. Representative from Florida. She w ...

represented the district since being elected in 2012. She previously represented the 18th district from 1989 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting. No candidates filed to challenge Ros-Lehtinen for her seat, so she returned to office without standing for election in 2014.

References

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