{"id":375059,"date":"2026-08-18T23:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T23:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375059\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T23:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T23:04:09","slug":"florida-primary-election-results-live-st-petersburg-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375059\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida primary election results live: St. Petersburg Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787092901_246_default-image.png\" alt=\"Livestream\" class=\"livestream-poster-image\" data-v-e2115db2=\"\"\/>     <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Voters will head to the polls on Tuesday to cast their ballot for the next mayor of St. Petersburg. If no candidate receives 50% of the vote, the race will continue with a runoff.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Mayor Ken Welch is seeking re-election. However, he has been challenged by former Florida governor Charlie Crist, Kevin Batdorf, Brandi Gabbard, Jim Large, and Marla Lynne-Scruggs.<\/p>\n<p> Florida Primary Election Results: St. Petersburg mayoral race  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Election results are expected to be released shortly after polls close at 7 p.m. Please check back throughout the night for the latest race totals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story used information and election results from the Florida Division of Election<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/elections-2026\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Elections<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voters will head to the polls on Tuesday to cast their ballot for the next mayor of St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[114192,47,115,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-375059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-elections-2026","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375059","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=375059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}