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2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida

2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida

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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, 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. There was no net party change, as Democrat Gwen Graham defeated Republican incumbent Steve Southerland in the 2nd district, while Republican Carlos Curbelo defeated Democratic incumbent Joe Garcia in the 26th district.

Quick Facts All 27 Florida seats to the United States House of Representatives, Majority party ...

Overview

Statewide

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District

Results of the 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida by district:[1]

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District 1

Incumbent Republican Jeff Miller, who had represented the district since 2001, ran for re-election.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
Eliminated in primary
  • John Krause
Withdrawn
  • Travis Pierce Miller

Results

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Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Jim Bryan, retired Army officer and nominee for this seat in 2010

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District 2

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Incumbent Republican Steve Southerland, who had represented the district since 2011, ran for re-election.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

General election

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Steve Southerland (R)

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Graham won the race by a narrow 1.2% margin, making Southerland one of only two sitting Republicans to be defeated by a Democrat in 2014 (the other being Lee Terry in Nebraska's 2nd).

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District 3

Incumbent Republican Ted Yoho, who had represented the district since 2013, after defeating Republican incumbent Cliff Stearns in the primary, ran for re-election.

Republican primary

Campaign

Jake Rush, an attorney and former Alachua County Sheriff's deputy is challenged Yoho in the Republican primary. Following the launch of his campaign, he received national media attention related to his involvement with live action role-playing (particularly the supernaturally themed Mind's Eye Theatre) and costuming.[17][18][19]

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Nominee
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Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Marihelen Wheeler, Middle school art teacher[20]
Withdrawn
  • Aquasia Johnson McDowell

General election

Endorsements

Ted Yoho (R)
Organizations
Marihelen Wheeler (D)

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District 4

Incumbent Republican Ander Crenshaw, who had represented the district since 2001, ran for re-election.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
Eliminated in primary
  • Ryman Shoaf, US Navy veteran

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Democratic primary

The Democratic Party did not run a candidate in this race.

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District 5

Incumbent Democrat Corrine Brown, who had represented the district since 2013, having previously represented the 3rd district from 1993 to 2013, ran for re-election.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
Eliminated in primary
  • Thuy Lowe

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District 6

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Incumbent Republican Ron DeSantis, who had represented the district since 2013, ran for re-election.

Republican primary

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Nominee

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  • Andrew Scott

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District 7

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The 7th District, includes most of Seminole County, the main campus of the University of Central Florida in Orange County, and parts of Deltona in Volusia County. Incumbent Republican John Mica, who had represented the district since 1993, ran for re-election. 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.

Republican primary

Polling taken during the 2013 government shutdown 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.[25] The early predictions proved to be unfounded, and Mica's popularity rebounded considerably over the summer of 2014. Mica was a heavy favourite to win the GOP primary, and on August 26, trounced his GOP challengers with over 72% of the vote.[26]

Candidates

Nominee
Eliminated in primary
  • Don Oehlrich
  • Kelly Shirley, pharmacist
  • David Smith, business executive
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  • Alan Azcona
  • Zechariah Blanchard

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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.[27]

Al Krulick appeared on the ballot with no party affiliation.

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Wes Neuman (D)

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District 8

Incumbent Republican Bill Posey, who had represented the district since 2013, having represented the 15th district from 2009 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting, ran for re-election.

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Campaign

Rothblatt's belief in transhumanism and his family ties were both regularly covered by the media. Jessica Roy, from Time, commented that his status as a member of Terasem may be just as difficult for his campaign as being a Democrat in the Republican majority district.[28][29]

During a campaign event, gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist introduced him by saying "Gabriel is the messenger that God sent."[30]

Others were critical of Rothblatt's campaign. Katie Prill, from the National Republican Congressional Committee, wrote that "his radical ideas are too extreme for Florida families."[28] Posey's spokesman, George Cecala, stated that, "It all comes down to the real issue, and that is Bill Posey is a conservative and Gabriel Rothblatt is a liberal.[28]

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Bill Posey (R)

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District 9

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Incumbent Democrat Alan Grayson, who had represented the district since 2013, ran for re-election. He previously represented the 8th district from 2009 to 2011, prior to the decennial redistricting.

Democratic primary

Grayson was challenged in the primary by Democrat Nick Ruiz, a professor from the University of Florida. In 2012, Ruiz ran for the Democratic nomination in the 7th District. Ruiz made a somewhat surprising move to FL-09 for 2014.[34]

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Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Carol Platt, Osceola County Realtors Association
Eliminated in primary
  • Jorge Bonilla, navy veteran
  • Peter Vivaldi, businessman

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Platt received endorsements from both Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio.[35]

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District 10

Incumbent Republican Daniel Webster, who had represented the district since 2013, ran for re-election. He previously represented the 8th district from 2011 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
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  • David Allen Seeley

Democratic primary

Val Demings, who was the Democratic nominee in 2012, considered a second run against Webster,[37] but chose to run for Mayor of Orange County, Florida, instead.[38] Ultimately, she pulled out of that race as well.[39]

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Despite only spending $5,000 on his primary campaign, a fraction of his two opponents, McKenna won the primary and faced Webster in the general election.[42]

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General election

Campaign

Webster was a decided favourite for the general election and he 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.[43]

Results

Webster easily cruised to re-election by a margin of 62% to 38%.[44]

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District 11

Incumbent Republican Rich Nugent, who had represented the district since 2013, ran for re-election. He previously represented the 5th district from 2011 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
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  • Michael Uminski

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Dave Koller, small businessowner

Libertarian primary

Candidates

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  • Matthew Schnackenberg

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District 12

Incumbent Republican Gus Bilirakis, who had represented the district since 2013, ran for re-election.. He previously represented the 9th district from 2007 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
Withdrawn
  • James Denton Jr.

Democratic primary

No democrat filed to run

General election

No candidates filed to challenge Bilirakis for his seat, so he returned to office without standing for election.[45]

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District 13

Incumbent Republican David Jolly, who had represented the district since a 2014 special election, ran for re-election.

Republican primary

On October 9, 2013, Republican Bill Young, 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 ran for a full term.

Candidates

Nominee

Democratic primary

Candidates

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

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced that it would support Independent candidate Ed Jany.[46] Jany dropped out of the race on May 13, 2014.[47]

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Libertarian primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Lucas Overby, activist, commercial diver, and nominee for this seat in the 2014 (special)[46]

Independents

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General election

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District 14

Incumbent Democrat Kathy Castor, who had represented the district since 2013, ran for re-election. She previously represented the 11th district from 2007 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Republican primary

No Republicans filed to run.

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  • John Coney

General election

No candidates filed to challenge Castor for her seat, so she returned to office without standing for election.[45]

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District 15

Incumbent Republican Dennis Ross, who had represented the district since 2013, ran for re-election. He previously represented the 12th district from 2011 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting.

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District 16

Incumbent Republican Vern Buchanan, who had represented the district since 2013, ran for re-election. He previously represented the 16th district from 2009 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
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  • Mitch Mallett, former vice chair of the Manatee county Democratic party[64]

General election

101-year-old Joe Newman ran as a write-in candidate.[65]

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District 17

Incumbent Republican Tom Rooney, who had represented the district since 2013, ran for re-election. He previously represented the 13th district from 2007 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
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  • Erin Magee
  • John Sawyer

Democratic primary

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  • Will Bronson

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District 18

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Incumbent Democrat Patrick Murphy, who had represented Florida's 18th congressional district since 2013 after defeating Republican Allen West, ran for re-election.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Republican primary

Juno Beach 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.[66][67]

Candidates

Nominee
Eliminated in primary
  • Beverly Hires, nurse
  • Brian Lara, computer software developer
  • Calvin Turnquest, former Tequesta Council member
  • Alan Schlesinger, former mayor of Derby, Connecticut, former Connecticut State Representative and nominee for the U.S. Senate from Connecticut in 2006
  • Nick Wukoson, small business owner
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  • Ellen Andel, Juno Beach Council member
  • Frank Lynch
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  • * Internal poll for the Patrick Murphy campaign

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District 19

Incumbent Republican Curt Clawson, who had represented the district since an 2014 special election, ran for re-election.

Republican Trey Radel who had elected to represent the 19th district in 2012, resigned on January 27, 2014, requiring a special election to fill the remainder of his term.[75]

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
Declined

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • April Freeman, film and television producer and co-founder of a political consulting firm

General election

Endorsements

Curt Clawson (R)

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District 20

Incumbent Democrat Alcee Hastings, who had represented the district since 2013, ran for re-election. He previously represented the 13th district from 1993 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting.

Democratic primary

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Nominee
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Nominee
  • Jay Bonner, marketing consultant and land surveyor

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District 21

Incumbent Democrat Ted Deutch, who had represented the district since 2013, ran for re-election. He previously represented the 19th district from 2010 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
Eliminated in primary
  • Emmanuel Morel

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Republican primary

No Republicans filed

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  • Henry Colon

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District 22

Incumbent Democrat Lois Frankel, who had represented the district since 2013, ran for re-election.

Democratic primary

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Nominee

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Paul Spain
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  • Andrea Leigh McGee
  • David Wagie
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  • Jeremy Rodgers

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District 23

Incumbent Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who had represented the district since 2013, ran for re-election. She previously represented the 20th district from 2005 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Joseph Kaufman, Founder of Americans Against Hate
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  • Juan Garcia
Declined
  • Ed Goldfarb, realtor

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District 24

Incumbent Democrat Frederica Wilson, who had represented the district since 2013, ran for re-election. She previously represented the 17th district from 2011 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting.

Democratic primary

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Nominee
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  • Michael Etienne

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Nominee
  • Dufirstson Julio Neree

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District 25

Incumbent Republican Mario Diaz-Balart, who had represented the district since 2013, ran for re-election. 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.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

General election

No candidates filed to challenge Diaz-Balart for his seat, so he returned to office without standing for election.[45]

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Mario Diaz-Balart (R)

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District 26

Incumbent Democrat Joe García, who had represented the district since 2013, ran for re-election.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Republican primary

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Nominee
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Carlos Curbelo (R)
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District 27

Incumbent Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen who had represented the district since 2012, ran for re-election. She previously represented the 18th district from 1989 to 2013, prior to the decennial redistricting.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

General election

No candidates filed to challenge Ros-Lehtinen for her seat, so she returned to office without standing for election.[45]

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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R)

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See also


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