{"id":375024,"date":"2026-08-18T22:17:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T22:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375024\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T22:17:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T22:17:20","slug":"polls-closing-soon-in-pinellas-county-2026-primary-election-candidates-how-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375024\/","title":{"rendered":"Polls Closing Soon In Pinellas County 2026 Primary Election: Candidates, How To Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark BunkerKevin R.T. LaughlinSam Wilson <\/p>\n<p>Oldsmar &#8211; Council Seat 3<\/p>\n<p> Amber StephensJessica H. VillafanaFraser Young <\/p>\n<p>St. Petersburg &#8211; Mayor<\/p>\n<p> Kevin BatdorfCharlie CristBrandi GabbardJim LargeMaria Lynne ScruggsKenneth T. Welch <\/p>\n<p>St. Petersburg &#8211; Council District 6<\/p>\n<p> Terri BallietLinsey GroveDoug HomeyerTrevor MalloryJameka Williams  How to Vote in Pinellas County <\/p>\n<p>Polling places are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday. If you are in line at 7 p.m., you will be allowed to vote, but if you arrive at the polling place after 7 p.m., you will not be allowed to vote.<\/p>\n<p>In order to cast your ballot in the 2024 primary election, you\u2019ll need to bring a valid and current photo and signature ID to your polling station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark BunkerKevin R.T. LaughlinSam Wilson Oldsmar &#8211; Council Seat 3 Amber StephensJessica H. VillafanaFraser Young St. Petersburg &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-375024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375024","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=375024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}