{"id":289419,"date":"2026-05-29T21:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T21:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289419\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T21:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T21:58:09","slug":"richie-floyd-re-elected-to-st-pete-city-council-without-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289419\/","title":{"rendered":"Richie Floyd re-elected to St. Pete City Council without opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Floyd ran on a platform based on affordability and reducing corporate influence in city government.<\/p>\n

St. Petersburg City Council member Richie Floyd has been re-elected to his District 8 seat after the city\u2019s qualifying deadline for the 2026 election passed without an opponent filing to challenge him.<\/p>\n

Floyd celebrated the win on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe WON. I\u2019m honored to have been reelected for a second term to St. Pete City Council! It\u2019s the honor of a lifetime to represent the hard working people of District 8 at City Hall, and I\u2019m grateful to be able to spend four more years working on building a city that stands up for its residents and truly works for everyone,\u201d Floyd wrote on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He added his thanks to \u201ceveryone who helped us knock over 5000 doors and raise funds from nearly 500 people in just a handful of months! We couldn\u2019t have accomplished it without you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Floyd raised<\/a> more than $36,000 for his race, as of the end of March, and spent just over $3,000 of those funds. He was running on affordability, protections for tenants and fighting corporate influence in city government.<\/p>\n

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Floyd was first elected four years ago. While City Council positions are nonpartisan, Floyd describes himself as a Democratic Socialist, which made waves in his first election.<\/p>\n

In his first bid for office \u2014 as he did with his most recent re-election effort<\/a> \u2014 Floyd ran a grassroots campaign focused on small-dollar donations and a volunteer-driven ground game.<\/p>\n

Floyd, a Florida native, previously worked as an electrical engineer and as a science teacher with\u00a0Pinellas County Schools<\/a>. He lives in the Central Oak Park neighborhood with his wife,\u00a0Miranda, and became involved in civic and political organizing after moving to St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n

Floyd supports building mixed-income, city-owned social housing, expanding small-scale housing options and providing legal assistance to tenants facing eviction. His platform also calls for limiting short-term rentals in residential neighborhoods. Floyd also criticized approaches that subsidize landlords while rents continue to rise, saying the city should instead pursue policies that deliver meaningful affordability for residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Floyd ran on a platform based on affordability and reducing corporate influence in city government. St. Petersburg City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[11591,1571,7357,202,3351,204,203,199,1640,201,200],"class_list":["post-289419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-2026-election","tag-affordable-housing","tag-richie-floyd","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-city-council","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-city-council","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}