Florida will elect 28 members of its U.S. House delegation. There is a special election for the U.S. Senate seat.
In the special election, Senator Ashley Moody (R) is seeking to complete the remainder of the term of former Senator Marco Rubio (R), who departed his position to join the Trump administration. Moody has raised nearly $1.4M for her election. Sixteen percent of her contributions are small contributions. Hector Mujica (D) has raised the most of the challenger candidates with $462,059, about 19% of which are from small contributions.
In FL-2, which is an open seat, two Democratic women have reported campaign finance data: Huy-Yen Bailey, with $113,807, and Amanda Green with $102,442. Democrat Nicholas Zateslo has raised the most with $204,673. On the Republican side, Keith Gross has raised $58,683. The primary field on the Republican side is expected to be large as The Cook Political Report rates it a “Solid Republican” seat. The Republican retiring from his seat, Dr. Neal Dunn, did not announce his retirement until mid-January.
In FL-19, just two of the ten Republican candidates with campaign finance data are women: Ola Hawatmeh with $133,189 and Catalina Lauf with $411,531. Of the Republican men seeking the seat, James Oberweis has raised the most with over $3M. The Cook Political Report considers this seat solidly Republican.
The incumbent serving in FL-16, Representative Vern Buchanan (R), announced his retirement a few days before the campaign finance filing deadline, creating an open seat.
Ten women are seeking reelection to the U.S. House from Florida—half of whom are Democrats and half of whom are Republicans. Within both parties, the average raised by men House incumbents is higher than the average raised by women. The average for Democratic men seeking reelection to the House from Florida is $1,074,697 compared with $606,951 for Democratic women. The average for Republican men incumbents seeking reelection to the House is $819,465 and $465,422 for Republican women incumbents. Of the women seeking reelection to the U.S. House, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) has raised the most with over $1.3M.
Republican Representative Randy Fine (FL-6) has raised the most of the House incumbents with nearly $3M; over 30% of his funds are from self-financing. Of the U.S. House candidates running in open seats, James Oberweis (FL-19) has raised the most, almost all of which is from self-financing. Of the House challenger candidates running in Florida, Republican women have the highest average for proportion of funds from self-financing with 58% followed by Republican men with 48%.
In the U.S. House incumbent races, Democratic men have raised the most from small contributions (with an average of 31%) followed by Republican women (with 27%). However, Republican women challenger candidates have the highest average proportion of funds from small contributions (55%) compared with the other gender and party candidate groups.
Democrat Jennifer Jenkins, who is one of the challengers in the U.S. Senate race, has raised 70% of her funds from small contributors. Representative Anna Luna (R) has the highest proportion of funds from small contributions (54%) of the women seeking reelection to the House.
This statistic is the average total amount raised to date from individuals (including self-financing).
This statistic is the average amount from self-financing as a proportion of total raised (from individuals including the candidate) by candidate subgroup. Primary challengers to incumbents are excluded.
This statistic is the average amount of contributions $200 or less as a proportion of total raised (excluding self-financed contributions) by candidate subgroup.