{"id":375203,"date":"2026-08-19T02:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375203\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T02:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:30:09","slug":"here-were-the-local-contests-decided-outright-on-election-day-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375203\/","title":{"rendered":"Here were the local contests decided outright on Election Day in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From school board to judges and state Legislature, here were the winners of the local contests decided outright on Election Day, Tuesday, Aug. 18. <\/p>\n<p>For statewide and congressional partisan primary elections, <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2026\/08\/18\/vote-totals-northeast-florida\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">see this post<\/a>. Races not listed below are headed to a runoff in November. <\/p>\n<p>Duval County elections: Aug. 18 outright winners <\/p>\n<p>Voter turnout: 23.1% <\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville City Council at-large seat: Mon\u00e9 Holder (DEM)<\/p>\n<p>Duval County judge Group 1 \u2014 Matt Lufrano<\/p>\n<p>State House of Representatives: <\/p>\n<p>District 13 \u2014 Audrey Gibson (DEM)<\/p>\n<p>District 14 \u2014 Kimberly Daniels (DEM)<\/p>\n<p>St. Johns County elections: Aug. 18 outright winners<\/p>\n<p>Voter turnout: 27.2%<\/p>\n<p>St. Johns County Commission:<\/p>\n<p>District 2 \u2014 Martin Pyszczymuka (REP)<\/p>\n<p>District 4 \u2014 Krista Joseph (REP)<\/p>\n<p>7th circuit judge \u2014 Jeanne Stratis<\/p>\n<p>St. Johns School Board District 1 \u2014 Kevin Allen<\/p>\n<p>St. Augustine City Commission Seat 4 \u2014 Ashleigh Barnes<\/p>\n<p>Clay County elections: Aug. 18 outright winners<\/p>\n<p>Voter turnout: 25.4%<\/p>\n<p>Clay School Board<\/p>\n<p>District 1\u00a0\u2014 Erin Skipper<\/p>\n<p>District 4 \u2014 Michele Hanson<\/p>\n<p>District 5 \u2014 Ashley Hutchings Gilhousen<\/p>\n<p>Nassau County elections: Aug. 18 outright winners<\/p>\n<p>Voter turnout: 30.3%<\/p>\n<p>Nassau County Commission: <\/p>\n<p>District 2 \u2014 A. M. \u201cHupp\u201d Huppmann (REP)<\/p>\n<p>District 4 \u2014 Alyson R. McCullough (REP)<\/p>\n<p>Nassau County School Board District 5 \u2014 Lissa Braddock<\/p>\n<p>City of Fernandina Beach Commission Seat 4 \u2014 Scott Inglis<\/p>\n<p>Fernandina Beach paid parking referendum \u2014 Passed (<a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2026\/08\/18\/voters-kill-paid-parking-fernandina-beach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">read more here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>See full Aug. 18 election results from each county: <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">See the primary night election results for races that are going to runoffs on Nov. 3: <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enr.electionsfl.org\/DUV\/4003\/Summary\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Duval<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/enr.electionsfl.org\/STJ\/4011\/Summary\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Johns<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/enr.electionsfl.org\/CLA\/3990\/Summary\/Scrolling\/Banner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clay<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/enr.electionsfl.org\/NAS\/4021\/Summary\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nassau<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From school board to judges and state Legislature, here were the winners of the local contests decided outright&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[43323,2715,114192,88005,116,118,117,99028,115,99],"class_list":["post-375203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-distribute","tag-elections","tag-elections-2026","tag-government-politics","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jaxtdy1","tag-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375203","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=375203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}