Yesterday was a big deal local election. Some of the races ended last night, others are headed for a runoff or the general election. The New Tropic gathered all the results of races featured in our voter guide below.
Most of the results are as of 5:30 a.m. on Aug. 31, but a few were updated at 11 a.m. The full results can be found here. We rounded vote percentages to the nearest whole, and linked to our profiles of the candidates when we had them.
Miami-Dade County Mayor
Current Mayor Carlos Gimenez got the most votes (about 48 percent, as of 10 p.m.), but he didn’t top 50 percent, so he and second-place finisher Raquel Regalado (32 percent) are headed to a runoff in November.
Miami-Dade County Commission
District 11
Joe Martinez (70 percent)
District 9
Dennis Moss (Incumbent, 74 percent)
District 7
Xavier Suarez (Incumbent, 72 percent)
U.S. Senate
Republican
Marco Rubio (Incumbent, a whopping 89 percent of the vote)
Democrat
Patrick Murphy (with 60 percent)
Libertarian
Paul Stanton (with 66 percent, he beat Augustus Invictus, who had that goat sacrifice thing weighing on him)
Now all three will go head to head in the November general election.
U.S. House
Note: We only listed races with challengers. Some seats had only one candidate for the party, so there was no vote to be had in the primary.
District 23
Republican
Joseph Kaufman (59 percent)
Democrat
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Incumbent, 61 percent)
District 24
Democrat
Frederica Wilson (Incumbent, 79 percent. We would have missed those hats.)
District 26
Democrat
Joe Garcia (52 percent)
District 27
Republican
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Incumbent, 81 percent)
Democrat
Scott Fuhrman (59 percent)
State Senate
Note: These were party primary races. We only listed them here if there was a race for the party’s candidacy. Some of these candidates will face a challenger in the opposing party in November.
State Rep. Daphne Campbell (31 percent)
Former Sen. Gwen Margolis vacated this seat unexpectedly earlier this year, after making derogatory comments about her opponents. She was the longest-serving state senator in Florida at that point and her abrupt departure left the seat wide open. It was a contentious race.
State Sen. Dwight Bullard (Incumbent, 49 percent)
State House
Note: These were party primary races. We only listed them here if there was a race for the party’s candidacy. Some of these candidates will face a challenger in the opposing party in November.
District 107 (Universal, both parties)
Barbara Watson (Incumbent, 65 percent)
District 108 (Universal, both parties)
Roy Hardemon (22 percent)
Republican
Rosa Maria ‘Rosy’ Palomino (61 percent)
Democrat
Nicholas X. Duran (72 percent)
District 113 (Democrat)
David Richardson (Incumbent, 77 percent)
District 114 (Democrat)
Daisy J. Baez (84 percent)
District 115 (Democrat)
Jeffrey Doc Solomon (66 percent)
District 118 (Republican)
David Rivera (36 percent)
74 percent of you said yes to tax breaks for businesses that use solar panels or other renewable energy. Here comes the sun!
Miami-Dade County School Board
District 1
Headed to a runoff, with a narrow lead for Wilbert T. “Tee” Holloway
District 6
Headed to a runoff, with Maria Teresa ‘Mari Tere’ Rojas in the lead
District 7
Lubby Navarro (Incumbent, 79 percent)
Judges
Circuit Court
Marcia Del Rey (52 percent)
Headed to a runoff, with Mark Blumstein leading at 29 percent
Headed to a runoff, with Carol “Jody” Breece leading at 40 percent
Robert Joshua Luck (54 percent)
George “Jorge” Sarduy (56 percent)
Group 5
Not clear as of publication time
Group 7
Ed Newman (52 percent)
Group 15
Linda Luce (64 percent)
Group 35
Wendell Graham (57 percent)