{"id":347981,"date":"2026-07-22T00:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/347981\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T00:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:14:12","slug":"poll-points-to-loranne-ausley-jeremy-matlow-runoff-in-tallahassee-mayor-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/347981\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll points to Loranne Ausley, Jeremy Matlow runoff in Tallahassee Mayor race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Sen.\u00a0Loranne Ausley\u00a0has an early lead in the race for Tallahassee Mayor, with City Commissioner\u00a0Jeremy Matlow\u00a0not far behind.<\/p>\n

A new St. Pete Polls survey conducted for Florida Politics shows Ausley leading the four-candidate field with 29% support, followed by Matlow at 24% with\u00a0Daryl Parks 10 points back from the top two, and Michael Foust\u00a0sitting at around 3%.<\/p>\n

\u201cUndecided\u201d ranks as the top pick for Tallahassee voters, with just over 31% of those polled saying they have yet to choose a candidate in the race to succeed John Dailey, who opted not to seek a third term leading the capital city.<\/p>\n

With less than a month to go, the survey suggests no candidate is in position to clinch the 50%-plus-one needed to win the nonpartisan seat outright in August and that the contest will instead determine which two candidates advance to the November ballot.<\/p>\n

Though Ausley served in the Senate as a Democrat, the crosstabs show she performs best among Republicans, who back her 36% to Matlow\u2019s 7%, and among voters age 70 and older, where she posts a commanding 47% to 20% advantage.<\/p>\n

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Matlow, meanwhile, leads Ausley among Democratic voters, 33% to 28%, and among voters younger than 50. Parks\u2019 strongest support comes from Black voters, where he receives 33%, compared with 19% for Ausley and 13% for Matlow.<\/p>\n

The same poll also measured where Tallahassee voters stand on the Governor\u2019s race, finding Democratic front-runner David Jolly with a nearly 3-to-1 advantage over Republican Primary favorite Byron Donalds, 47%-17%, with no-party candidate Desmond Meade polling at 2%.<\/p>\n

About 12% of voters plan to support a different gubernatorial candidate with the remaining 22% undecided.<\/p>\n

St. Pete Polls surveyed 345 likely Tallahassee voters July 19-20 using automated telephone calls and peer-to-peer text messages. The survey has a margin of error of +\/- 5.3 percentage points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Sen.\u00a0Loranne Ausley\u00a0has an early lead in the race for Tallahassee Mayor, with City Commissioner\u00a0Jeremy Matlow\u00a0not far behind.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[59514,88936,18533,14057,59513,106553,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-347981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-daryl-parks","tag-desmond-meade","tag-jeremy-matlow","tag-john-dailey","tag-loranne-ausley","tag-michael-foust","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347981","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=347981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}