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🔹 Northwest Florida regains Congressional representation as Jimmy Patronis wins the special election with 55% of the vote, though underperforming past Republican margins.
🔹 Gay Valimont flips Escambia County in a rare Democratic win, improving her performance by 10% over her last run.
🔹 Nathan Boyles wins GOP primary for Florida House District 3 in a competitive race, setting up a general election against Democrat Dondre Wise on June 10.
Northwest Florida will have a Representative in Congress after more than six months without one – and the likely successor to Dr. Joel Rudman won his primary tonight.
Florida Chief Financial Officer, Jimmy Patronis emerged victorious from his special election against Gay Valimont with 55% of the vote. The election, which took place from Escambia County in the west to Walton County in the east, saw Patronis underperform Matt Gaetz’s results against Valimont last November. Patronis still earned a dominant victory with 57% of the vote, but Valmont improved her tally by about 10% from last November.
Valimont significantly outraised Patronis $6.5 Million dollars to $2.1 Million in the contest thanks to national interest in the race. She was able to win Escambia County outright. No Democrat has won Escambia County or any county in Northwest Florida for that matter, for more than thirty years.
Patronis’s numbers were much more favorable in Okaloosa and Walton counties. In the conservative strongholds to the east of the district, Petronis won nearly 63% of the vote.
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Former Okaloosa County commissioner Nathan Boyles emerged victorious from an eight-way jungle primary for the District 3 Republican nomination. The heavily conservative district will more than likely elect a Republican to the state house on June 10 to reinforce the GOP’s supermajority in the state legislature.
In Santa Rosa County, Jay city councilman Shon Owens narrowly defeated Boyles in raw votes, but Boyles’s stronghold in the northwest portion of Okaloosa County carried the day for the three-term former commissioner.
Boyles emerged from the primary with a 36% plurality of the votes to Sean Owens’s 32%. Northwest Okaloosa County resident Wade Merritt placed second in Okaloosa County behind Boyles.
“Big picture, a lot was made of geography between Santa Rosa and Okaloosa counties, “said Boyles, who plans to coalesce support behind the Republican ticket before the general election.
Boyles will face Democrat Dondre Wise in the special election June 10.
