{"id":375738,"date":"2026-08-19T16:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375738\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T16:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:36:06","slug":"who-won-in-pinellas-county-during-the-2026-florida-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375738\/","title":{"rendered":"Who won in Pinellas County during the 2026 Florida Primary?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several Pinellas County races will head to a runoff in November, including the closely watched St. Petersburg mayoral race. <\/p>\n

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Voters went out Tuesday to cast their ballots<\/a> to choose commissioners, school board members, and a mayor for St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n

As of 11 p.m. Tuesday, preliminary results show how people in Pinellas County voted during the 2026 Florida Primary in the following races:<\/p>\n


\nSt. Petersburg Mayor <\/p>\n

Charlie Crist:\u00a018,685 votes (35.29%)Kenneth T. Welch:\u00a010,875 votes (20.54%)Jim Large: 9,561 votes (18.06%)Brandi Gabbard: 9,255 votes (17.48%)Maria Lynne Scruggs: 2,743 votes (5.18%)Kevin Batdorf: 1,823 votes (3.44%) <\/p>\n


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Since neither candidate received more than 50% of the vote, incumbent Ken Welch and former Florida Governor Charlie Crist will head to a runoff election on Nov. 3 to determine the next St. Petersburg mayor.<\/p>\n


\nPinellas County Commissioner for District 4\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Dave Eggers (Republican):\u00a034,457 votes (78.54%)Anthony Ringelspaugh (Republican): 9,413 votes (21.46%) <\/p>\n


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Pinellas County Judge for Group 10\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Nick Fiorentino: 106,499 votes (63.89%)Zachariah Wade: 60,202 votes (36.11%) <\/p>\n


\nPinellas County School Board for District 2 <\/p>\n

Lisa Cane: 90,502 votes (55.01%)Nancy Velardi: 74, 015 votes (44.99%) <\/p>\n


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Pinellas County School Board for District 3\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Dawn Peters: 59,783 votes (36.35%)Curtis Campogni: 57,302 votes (34.84%)Dawn Douglas: 47,387 votes (28.81%) <\/p>\n

Since no candidate received more than 50% of the vote, current school board vice chair Dawn Peters and Curtis Campogni will head to a runoff election on Nov. 3.<\/p>\n


\nPinellas County School Board for District 6\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Nancy Nelis Bostock: 20,504 votes (50.17%)Amanda Lord: 20,364 votes (49.83%) <\/p>\n


\nClearwater City Council, Seat 4 \u00a0 <\/p>\n

Jared Leone: 11,820 votes (53.08%)Bianca Latvala: 10,448 votes (46.92%) <\/p>\n


\nClearwater City Council, Seat 5 <\/p>\n

Sam Wilson: 10,798 votes (48.98%)Mark Bunker: 7,706 votes (34.96%)Kevin R.T. Laughlin: 3,540 votes (16.06%)\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Since no candidate received more than 50% of the vote, Sam Wilson and Mark Bunker will head to a runoff election on Nov. 3.<\/p>\n


\nOldsmar City Council, Seat 3 <\/p>\n

Amber Stephens: 1,041 votes (42.03%)Fraser Young: 957 votes (38.64%)Jessica H. Villafana: 479 votes (19.34%)\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Since no candidate received more than 50% of the vote, Amber Stephens and Fraser Young will head to a runoff election on Nov. 3.<\/p>\n


\nSt. Petersburg City Council for District 6 <\/p>\n

Linsey Grove:\u00a01,798 votes (28.04%)Trevor Mallory: 1,443 votes (22.5%)Terri Balliet: 1,094 votes (17.06%)Doug Homeyer: 1,061 votes (16.55%)Jameka Williams: 1,016 votes (15.85%)\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Since no candidate received more than 50% of the vote, Linsey Grove and Trevor Mallory will head to a runoff election on Nov. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several Pinellas County races will head to a runoff in November, including the closely watched St. Petersburg mayoral…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-375738","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\/375738","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=375738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}