{"id":33705,"date":"2025-11-05T02:17:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/33705\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T02:17:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:17:40","slug":"municipal-elections-begin-today-for-these-tampa-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/33705\/","title":{"rendered":"Municipal elections begin today for these Tampa communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA)\u2014Municipal elections are happening today in parts of Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Lakeland<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The community will choose a new mayor and two commissioner seats. This will be in districts C and D for South Lakeland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Voters will also vote on two charter amendments as well as commission seats in Auburndale, Winter Haven, and Fort Meade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To find a polling place,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.polkelections.com\/Events\/2025-November-Municipal-Election\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:visit their website.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> visit their website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Polls open at 7 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Pinellas County<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Voters will cast a vote for mayor for the city of Seminole today in Pinellas County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To find a polling place, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.votepinellas.gov\/Election-Information\/Find-Your-Precinct-Polling-Place\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:visit their website.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">visit their website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Manatee County<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Holmes Beach in Manatee County will have a vote on a commission seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To find a polling place,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.votemanatee.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:visit their website.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> visit their website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA)\u2014Municipal elections are happening today in parts of Tampa Bay. Lakeland The community will choose a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10234,23599,23600,23601,135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-33705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-commissioner","9":"tag-municipal-elections","10":"tag-polling-place","11":"tag-south-lakeland","12":"tag-tampa","13":"tag-tampa-headlines","14":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33705","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=33705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}