{"id":446702,"date":"2026-11-04T02:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T02:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/446702\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T02:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T02:14:25","slug":"democrat-kathy-castor-wins-tampa-bays-u-s-house-district-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/446702\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Kathy Castor wins Tampa Bay\u2019s U.S. House, District 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" data-attachment-id=\"366223\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/kennedy-gala-85\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Kennedy-Gala-85-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1707\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R6&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1786236698&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;130&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;4000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kennedy Gala-85\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;U.S. Representative Kathy Castor speaking at the the Hillsborough County Democratic Party annual Kennedy-King Gala on August 8, 2026.&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Kennedy-Gala-85-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C520&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Kennedy-Gala-85.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Representative Kathy Castor speaking at the The Hillsborough County Democratic Party annual Kennedy-King Gala on August 8, 2026.\" class=\"wp-image-366223\"  \/>U.S. Representative Kathy Castor speaking at the the Hillsborough County Democratic Party annual Kennedy-King Gala on August 8, 2026. Credit: Dave Decker\/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democrat incumbent Kathy Castor has hung on to beat \u201cMAGA Mike\u201d Beltran and win her newly gerrymandered congressional seat in U.S. House, District 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Hillsborough County Supervisor of Election\u2019s Office, Castor has won, with 51.19% percent, with results from 222 of 234 precincts reporting at 8:14 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though she served for the last 20 years, Castor\u2019s biggest challenge in this race was her newly redrawn district. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After slumping approval rates suggested Trump could lose a congressional majority in the 2026 midterms, Republicans across the country frantically redrew congressional maps, including District 14 in Tampa Bay, which historically included Democratic-leaning portions of Pinellas County and St. Petersburg. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new, DeSantis-approved district map is now entirely within Hillsborough County and includes much of Tampa, along with communities in southern and eastern Hillsborough County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a developing post. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/altnewsfoundation.org\/cl-tampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pitch in to help make the Tampa Bay Journalism Project a success.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/tampa-newslettersignup-page\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAiECLjru3gB6BLYKOKFLfkVZsqFAgKIhAi467t4AegS2CjihS35FWb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google News<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/@c\/1599764?s=01\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsBreak<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CreativeLoafingTampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cltampabay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cltampabay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cltampabay.bsky.social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BlueSky<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a developing post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tColin Wolf has been working with weekly newspapers since 2007 and has been the Digital Editor for Creative Loafing Tampa since 2019. He is also the Director of Digital Content Strategy for CL&#8217;s parent&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/author\/colin-wolf\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Colin Wolf\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Representative Kathy Castor speaking at the the Hillsborough County Democratic Party annual Kennedy-King Gala on August 8,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-446702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446702","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=446702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}