Below is a national list of openly LGBT candidates, as endorsed by the Victory Fund.

South Florida Gay News has marked candidates by their victory or defeat and by the percentage of votes they received, regardless of the result. Go to the Florida Tab on the bottom for FL-specific results.
State Last Name Richardson First Name Dave Office State House of Representatives District District 113 Won Lost Percent Notes

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100% 47.54%

Ran unopposed.

Whitney

Ian

State House of Representatives

District 120

Opponent Holly Raschein won with 52.46% of the vote.

Pishgar

Joe

County Commission

Brevard County, District 3

43.87% Opponent Trudie J. Infantini won with 56.12% of the vote. 55.76% 60% 77.04%
Opponent Marco Pena lost with 44.24% of the vote.

Saunders

Joe

State House of Representatives

District 49 Hillsborough County, District 6 Orange County, District 4 Florida Keys, District 3

Beckner

Kevin

County Commission

Opponent Margaret Iuculan lost with 40% of the vote.

Sheehan

Patty

County Commission

Opponent Aretha Olvarez lost with 22.96% of the vote.

Smith

Stephen

Florida Keys Mosquito Control, Board of Commissioners

50.71% Opponent Stephen Hammond lost with 49.28% of the vote. 15.75% 60.15%
Opponent Perry Thurston lost with 84.25% of the vote.

Herman

Scott

State House of Representatives

District 94

Ileana

Ros-Lehtinen

U.S. House of Representatives

District 27

Garcia

Joe

U.S. House of Representatives

District 26

Ros-Lehtinen is NOT LGBT, but is the only Republican in the House that supports marriage equality. Opponent Manny Yevancey lost with 37.1% of the vote Garcia is NOT LGBT, but faced a remarkably anti-gay 53.76% opponent.. Opponent David Rivera lost with 42.9% of the vote

Murphy

Patrick

U.S. House of Representatives

District 18

50.39%

Murphy is NOT LGBT, but faced notoriously anti-gay Allen West. It appears West will lose the election with 49.61%.