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2018 Florida Elections
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Florida on November 6, 2018. All of Florida's executive officers were up for election as well as Florida's Class I United States Senate, Senate seat and all 27 seats in the United States House of Representatives. Partisan primary, Primary elections were on August 28, 2018. The Republicans 2018 United States Senate election in Florida, took control of the U.S. Senate seat held by three-term Democrat Bill Nelson in an upset, while the Democrats picked up two House seats as well as the office of the Commissioner of Agriculture. The Republican gains in the state, despite the 2018 United States elections, trend towards Democrats nationwide, were part of Florida's transition from a swing state to a Red states and blue states, red state. The Agriculture Commissioner race was the last time Democrats won a statewide race in Florida, and indeed the last time a Democrat was elected to a state agriculture commissioner position in the US. U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen ( ; ; born July 15, 1952) is an American 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 was Chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee from 2011–2013. In 1989, Ros-Lehtinen won a special election and became the first Cuban American elected to Congress. She was also the first Republican woman elected to the House from Florida. Ros-Lehtinen gave the first Republican response to the State of the Union address in Spanish in 2011, and gave the third in 2014. In September 2011, Ros-Lehtinen became the first Republican member of the U.S. Congress to co-sponsor the Respect for Marriage Act, which would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. In July 2012, Ros-Lehtinen became the first Republican in the House to support same-sex marriage. On April 30, 2017, Ros-Lehtinen announced that she would not be running for re-election in 2018. E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florida's 6th Congressional District
Florida's 6th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Florida. The district is located on the East Coast of the United States, Eastern Florida Coast and stretches from south of St. Augustine, Florida, Saint Augustine to South Daytona, Florida, South Daytona and inland to the southwest to the outskirts of Ocala, Leesburg and Sanford. It includes the city of Daytona Beach, Florida, Daytona Beach. From 2003 to 2013, the district stretched from the St. Johns River and Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville, sweeping through North Central Florida, encompassing portions of Gainesville, Florida, Gainesville and Ocala, Florida, Ocala, and meandered down to the northern tip of the Greater Orlando area in Lake County, Florida, Lake County. It included all of Bradford County, Florida, Bradford and Gilchrist County, Florida, Gilchrist counties and portions of Alachua County, Florida, Alachua, Clay County, Florida, Clay, Duval County, Florida, Duval, Lake County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florida's 5th Congressional District
Florida's 5th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Florida. It includes the southeastern area of Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville which comprises areas such as Arlington, East Arlington, Southside, Mandarin, San Jose, and the Beaches. It stretches south to St. Augustine, Florida, St. Augustine in St. Johns County, Florida, St. Johns County. From 2002 to 2013 the district comprised all of Citrus County, Florida, Citrus, Hernando County, Florida, Hernando, and Sumter County, Florida, Sumter counties and most of Lake County, Florida, Lake, Levy County, Florida, Levy, and Pasco County, Florida, Pasco counties and portions of Marion County, Florida, Marion and Polk County, Florida, Polk counties. The district included northern exurbs of Tampa, Florida, Tampa and western exurbs of Orlando, Florida, Orlando within the high-growth Interstate 4, Interstate 4 Corridor. This iteration of the 5th district is now largely contained in the Florida's 11th c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florida's 4th Congressional District
Florida's 4th congressional district is a congressional district in northeastern Florida, encompassing Nassau County, Florida, Nassau and Clay County, Florida, Clay counties and Duval County, Florida, Duval County west of the St. Johns River, including Downtown Jacksonville. The district is currently represented by Aaron Bean of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party. As part of the 2020 United States redistricting cycle, 2020 redistricting cycle, the district was redrawn to include Clay County and exclude St. Johns County, Florida, St. Johns County. Rutherford was redistricted into the Florida's 5th congressional district, 5th district, and Republican Florida Senate, state senator Aaron Bean was elected to be the district's representative in the 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 2022 election. Before 1993, most of the territory now in the 4th district was the Florida's 3rd congressional district, 3rd district, represented by Char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florida's 3rd Congressional District
Florida's 3rd congressional district is an electoral district of the United States House of Representatives located in Florida. It presently comprises a large section of north central Florida, including the entire counties of Alachua County, Alachua, Baker County, Florida, Baker, Bradford County, Florida, Bradford, Columbia County, Florida, Columbia, Dixie County, Florida, Dixie, Gilchrist County, Florida, Gilchrist, Hamilton County, Florida, Hamilton, Levy County, Florida, Levy, Suwannee County, Florida, Suwannee, and Union County, Florida, Union, along with the majority of Lafayette County, Florida, Lafayette and Marion County, Florida, Marion County. The city of Gainesville, Florida, Gainesville is in the district as well as part of Ocala, Florida, Ocala (its northern suburbs), and portions of the Jacksonville metropolitan area. Redistricting in Florida, effective for the 2012 federal elections, radically altered the nature of the 3rd district. From 1993 through 2012 the dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florida's 2nd Congressional District
Florida's 2nd congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Florida. The district consists of the eastern part of the Florida Panhandle along with much of the Big Bend region along the Emerald Coast. It straddles both the Eastern and Central time zones. It includes Tallahassee, the state capital, and Panama City. With 49% of its residents living in rural areas, it is the least urbanized district in the state, and the voters are generally conservative. The district is represented by Republican Neal Dunn of Panama City. Characteristics Florida's 2nd Congressional District is the largest congressional district in Florida by land area and consists of all of Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Taylor, Wakulla, and Washington counties, as well as portions of Walton and Lafayette. Most of the territory now in the 2nd was the 9th District from 1963 to 1983; it has been the 2nd since 1983. For m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florida's 1st Congressional District
Florida's 1st congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Florida, covering the state's western Florida Panhandle, Panhandle. It includes all of Escambia County, Florida, Escambia, Okaloosa County, Florida, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa County, Florida, Santa Rosa counties, and portions of Walton County, Florida, Walton county. The district is anchored in Pensacola, Florida, Pensacola and also includes the large military bedroom communities and tourist destinations of Navarre, Florida, Navarre and Fort Walton Beach, Florida, Fort Walton Beach and stretches along the Emerald Coast. The district was previously represented by Republican Party (United States), Republican Matt Gaetz. With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of R+18, it is the most Republican district in Florida. Due to the election to replace Matt Gaetz, who had resigned in 2024, the district held the 2025 Florida's 1st congressional district special election, 2025 special election between Jimmy Pat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is a Centre-left politics, center-left political parties in the United States, political party in the United States. One of the Major party, major parties of the U.S., it was founded in 1828, making it the world's oldest active political party. Its main rival since the 1850s has been the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, and the two have since dominated American politics. The Democratic Party was founded in 1828 from remnants of the Democratic-Republican Party. Senator Martin Van Buren played the central role in building the coalition of state organizations which formed the new party as a vehicle to help elect Andrew Jackson as president that year. It initially supported Jacksonian democracy, agrarianism, and Manifest destiny, geographical expansionism, while opposing Bank War, a national bank and high Tariff, tariffs. Democrats won six of the eight presidential elections from 1828 to 1856, losing twice to the Whig Party (United States) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP), is a Right-wing politics, right-wing political parties in the United States, political party in the United States. One of the Two-party system, two major parties, it emerged as the main rival of the then-dominant Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party in the 1850s, and the two parties have dominated American politics since then. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists opposing the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery in the United States, slavery into U.S. territories. It rapidly gained support in the Northern United States, North, drawing in former Whig Party (United States), Whigs and Free Soil Party, Free Soilers. Abraham Lincoln's 1860 United States presidential election, election in 1860 led to the secession of Southern states and the outbreak of the American Civil War. Under Lincoln and a Republican-controlled Congress, the party led efforts to preserve th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clerk Of The United States House Of Representatives
The clerk of the United States House of Representatives is an officer of the United States House of Representatives, whose primary duty is to act as the chief record-keeper for the House. Along with the other House officers, the clerk is elected every two years when the House organizes for a new United States Congress, Congress. The majority and minority Congressional caucus, caucuses nominate candidates for the House officer positions after the election of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, speaker. The full House adopts a resolution (law), resolution to elect the officers, who will begin serving after they have taken the oath of office. The Article One of the United States Constitution#Clause 5: Speaker and other officers; Impeachment, House Officers and Impeachment Clause of Article I, Section II states "The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers". The Article Six of the United States Constitution#Oaths, Oath or Affirmati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florida's 26th Congressional District
Florida's 26th congressional district is an congressional district, electoral district for the U.S. Congress, which was first created in South Florida in 2013 as a result of Florida's population gain in the 2010 United States census, 2010 census. In the 2020 United States redistricting cycle, 2020 redistricting cycle, it was drawn as a successor to the previous Florida's 25th congressional district, 25th district and includes most of inland Collier County, Florida, Collier County as well as the northwestern suburbs of Miami, including Doral, Florida, Doral, Hialeah, Florida, Hialeah, Miami Lakes, Florida, Miami Lakes, and some neighborhoods in Miami itself, such as Allapattah and Wynwood. The previous iteration of the 26th district, which included Monroe County, Florida, Monroe County and the southwestern suburbs of Miami, was instead renamed as the newly created Florida's 28th congressional district, 28th district. From 2013 to 2023, the 26th district was located in far South F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
