Florida’s Open Seats: Now Is the Time to Make Your Voice Heard
FAC Members and Registrants in Florida,
A significant number of seats in both the Florida Senate and Florida House of Representatives are open because the current office holders are term limited or resigned.
These elections provide a rare chance for fresh voices, new ideas, and meaningful conversations about the issues that matter most to all of us – the sex offender registry implementation, outcomes, and lack of public safety effectiveness.
Open-seat elections give voters the chance to:
The candidates elected to these seats could be serving in Tallahassee for many years – 8 or even 16 years. The conversations voters have today can influence the policies of tomorrow.
There is no substitute for meeting candidates in person, attending forums, participating in town halls, or speaking with them directly at community events.
Ask candidates:
Candidates often remember the people they meet during campaigns. Those relationships can become valuable connections once they are elected and begin making decisions that affect their communities.
Senate Open Seats
Senate District 8 (Brevard, Volusia) – Candidates include Jake Johansson
Senate District 14 (Hillsborough) – Brian Nathan just won in March 2026.
Senate District 16 (Hillsborough) -Candidates include Fentrice Driskell and Michele Rayner
Senate District 21 (Pasco) – Candidates include Pasco County Sheriff
Senate District 22 (Manatee, Sarasota) – Candidates include James Buchanan
Senate District 26 (Palm Beach) – Candidate includes Rick Roth and David Silvers
Senate District 28 (Collier, Hendry, Lee) – Candidates include Lauren Melo
Senate District 30 (Palm Beach, Broward) – Candidates include Lauren Book
Senate District 34 (Miami Dade) – Candidates include Ashley Gantt
House Open Seats
House District 2 (Escambia, Santa Rosa) – Candidates include Jon Fay
House District 6 (Bay)
House District 10 (Baker, Bradford, Columbia, Union, Alachua) – Chase Brannan, the son of Chuck Brannan is running
House District 12 (Duval) – Candidates include Terrance Freeman
House District 13 (Duval) – Candidates include Audrey Gibson
House District 21 (Alachua, Marion) – Candidates include Malik Moore and Xavier Monroe
House District 31 (Brevard) – Candidates include Robyn Hattaway and Marcus Herman
House District 37 (Orange, Seminole) – Candidates include Robert Prater
House District 38 (Seminole) – Candidates include Emily Duda Buckley and Marcus Hyatt
House District 42 (Orange) – Candidates include Felipe Sousa Lazaballet, Eskamani-backed
House District 43 (Orange) – Candidates include Samuel Vilchez Santiago
House District 47 (Orange, Osceola) – Candidates include Jorge Figueroa and Anthony Nieves
House District 51 (Polk) – Candidates include Hilary Holley and Edwin Perez
House District 55 (Pasco) – Candidates include Walter Price
House District 60 (Pinellas) – Candidates include Lindsay Polega-Quigley and Melissa Rutland
House District 62 (Hillsborough, Pinellas) –Candidates include Kyandra Darling, Wengay “Newt” Newton
House District 63 (Hillsborough) – Robin Lockett running is a friend of Rep. Hart
House District 64 (Hillsborough)
House District 67 (Hillsborough) – Candidates include Luis Viera
House District 68 (Hillsborough) – Candidates include Ryan Gill
House District 71 (Manatee)
House District 74 (Sarasota)
House District 78 (Lee)
House District 82 (Hendry, Collier)
House District 85 (Martin, St. Lucie)
House District 100 (Broward)
House District 102 (Broward)
House District 108 (Miami Dade)
House District 109 (Miami Dade)
House District 113 (Miami Dade)
House District 116 (Miami Dade) – Ashley Perez-Biliskov, the sister of Danny Perez, is running.
Too often, voters wait until after candidates are elected to share their concerns. Open-seat elections provide a valuable opportunity to engage before anyone takes office.
Now is the time to introduce yourself to the people seeking to represent you. Attend a candidate forum. Visit a campaign event. Send an email. Ask questions. Listen carefully to the answers.
The legislators elected in these open-seat races will help shape Florida’s future. Make sure they hear from the people they hope to serve before the ballots are cast! GO for it! We represent about 100,000 voters in Florida – we can be a voting block.
-The FAC Legislative Committee
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Not ALL of our rights. Unless you’ve been pardoned, you still won’t have the right to bear arms.
How does FAC represent about 100,000 voters in Florida? We are forbidden from voting (unless we get our civil rights restored by applying to the State Clemency Board).
FL Amendment 4 from 2018?
Am I missing something?
And Majority of the time we are denied Clemency
Some of us have a withhold of adjudication and retained ALL of our rights. Also, we all have friends and family that are able to vote. Invite them to FAC, show them the facts, and prove that we are able to be rehabilitated. Those friends and family can also share the same FACTS with their friends and family that can also vote and speak out for us. I fully understand, since I’ve been on the registry since 2001, that we all just want to live a peaceful quiet life, but our voices DO still have impact, even with incoming representatives. Even if your right to vote and have a firearm have been taken, your freedom of speech, among MANY other rights are still intact. Again, share FACTS with literally everyone who will listen, and even ones who may be pretending to listen, because one phrase may make even them start to research those facts, even if it is to try and prove you wrong. One small act or talk may just change minds and even history. Thank you FAC for a list of possible representatives. Is there any insight on candidates that are running this year for any seat of the Florida government that is even mildly onboard with us or leveling out common sense laws? Those names would be handy for us voters also.
Can we invite them to FAC offices? Do we have a PowerPoint presentation that provides viewers with fact based information?
Good points. And who knows? Maybe someday we will have a governor who truly believes in second chances.