{"id":446656,"date":"2026-11-04T01:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T01:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/446656\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T01:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T01:18:08","slug":"florida-live-midterm-election-results-charlie-crist-wins-st-pete-mayoral-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/446656\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida live midterm election results: Charlie Crist wins St. Pete mayoral race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist has won the St. Petersburg mayoral race, defeating incumbent Ken Welch. He will now lead the city for the next four years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">The election is nonpartisan, and both candidates are registered Democrats. Crist, however, previously held several elected positions as a Republican, including serving as Florida governor, before switching parties in the mid-2000s.<\/p>\n<p> Live election results: St. Pete Mayor   <\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Live election results are from the Associated Press and the Florida Division of Elections.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/elections-2026\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-a97c31c4=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Elections<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist has won the St. Petersburg mayoral race, defeating incumbent Ken Welch. He will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[114192,115,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-446656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-elections-2026","tag-news","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\/446656","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=446656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}