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2026 Florida Governor — General Election · November 3, 2026
Filed running mate: Bryan Avila
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Last reviewed September 18, 2026Donalds is a current U.S. representative and former Florida House member with a professional background in banking, finance, and insurance. His campaign emphasizes affordability, immigration enforcement, economic growth, education, infrastructure, and environmental restoration.
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Sample Primary Election Ballot
August 18, 2026
Republican Party
Polk County, Florida
Governor and Lieutenant Governor
Byron Donalds
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6017 Pine Ridge Road, #360 · Naples, FL 34119
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6017 Pine Ridge Road, #360
Naples, FL 34119
Phone: (617)303-6800
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United States Congressman representing Florida's 19th Congressional District
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United States Congressman
representing Florida's 19th Congressional District
Byron's career led him to Southwest Florida, where he worked in the banking, finance, and insurance industries. Elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2016
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Byron's career led him to Southwest Florida, where he worked in the banking, finance, and insurance industries.
Elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2016
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Byron Donalds is the product of a single-parent household. Throughout his life, his mother made every sacrifice possible to give him the best opportunity to live the American Dream. That philosophy his mother taught him, striving to leave future generations better than the current, is what leads him in his work, his home life, and as a Member of Congress.
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Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Byron Donalds is the product of a single-parent household. Throughout his life, his mother made every sacrifice possible to give him the best opportunity to live the American Dream. That philosophy his mother taught him, striving to leave future generations better than the current, is what leads him in his work, his home life, and as a Member of Congress.
Byron attended Florida State University and graduated in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in finance and marketing. Byron’s career path has included working in the finance, insurance, and banking industries in Southwest Florida. While serving in the Florida House of Representatives, Byron made his mark as a champion for school choice and protecting parental rights in education. Donalds led the effort to enact Hope Scholarships that empowered parents with school choice and passed a first-in-the-nation bill to that allowed parents and community members to review instructional materials in schools.
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Byron attended Florida State University and graduated in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in finance and marketing. Byron’s career path has included working in the finance, insurance, and banking industries in Southwest Florida. While serving in the Florida House of Representatives, Byron made his mark as a champion for school choice and protecting parental rights in education. Donalds led the effort to enact Hope Scholarships that empowered parents with school choice and passed a first-in-the-nation bill to that allowed parents and community members to review instructional materials in schools.
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Address Florida's property-insurance crisis and reduce housing costs for families and seniors.
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Byron will work to solve the property insurance crisis, lower housing costs, and make Florida affordable again.
Increase healthcare price transparency, provider choice, and prescription affordability while reducing prior-authorization and surprise-billing barriers.
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Every licensed Florida provider posts real prices. Patients have the freedom to see any licensed provider at the lowest posted rate — without prior authorization, without surprise bills, and without being locked into a network. Every provider posts real prices. Patients choose their care. That’s it.
Freedom to see any licensed Florida provider — no network lock-in
Create a public insurance-comparison system showing prices, claims handling, and insurer performance.
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Pass legislation that allows the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation to enhance and standardize reporting requirements for insurers to ensure consistent, comparable data on premiums, rate increases, and valid claims such as approval and denial rates, and time to payment.
Codify new insurer reporting requirements, noncompliance fines, and public disclosure standards to ensure ongoing transparency and data quality.
Condition state funding on compliance with federal immigration enforcement and Florida's sanctuary-policy restrictions.
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Direct state agencies to audit programs, contracts, and grants for immigration compliance.
Bar state and local governments from spending public funds on benefits or services for illegal aliens unless required by federal law.
Speed permitting, business formation, infrastructure approvals, and commercial-case resolution to reduce business costs and encourage investment.
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Creates an efficiency shot clock. Adds a publicly visible ‘shot clock’ to the One Stop Permit Shop at the state level to track development projects across all jurisdictions.
Establishes a task force to review all state and local entities, permits, licenses, and fees tied to infrastructure and business development and report directly to the Governor
Create industry-driven workforce pathways linking students and workers to apprenticeships, on-the-job training, and low- or no-tuition career preparation.
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Create a task force within the governor’s office to coordinate high schools and state & community colleges with cutting-edge apprenticeship and on-the-job training programs.
Ensure Florida students read at grade level by third grade through teacher training, early indicators, intervention, tutoring, and incentives.
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As a parent, there is nothing more magical than reading to your children. We began when our boys were just days old. My favorite bedtime book was Hooper Humperdink…? Not Him! I can still recite it by heart and cherish the memories of those early days of being a father and reading to my firstborn. Over time and as each of our children learned to read, we would alternate reading chapter books – our sons reading one page and then Erika or I would read the other.Ensuring that your child can read is not magic. It’s a foundational to a life of opportunity and meaning. Every child must Read to Succeed. Reading is the first step on road to realizing the big Florida dream of your child’s Success Plan.Reading didn’t come easy for all our kids. Every child is different. But every child must learn to Read to Succeed. As governor, our Read to Succeed initiative will ensure that every child has the reading skills required.This is not a new mandate. This is about empowering all parents and all teachers with the tools, technology, and tutoring to ensure every child can Read to Succeed at grade level by third grade.
Give every Florida student a personalized academic and career plan beginning by sixth grade, with education funding following the student's chosen path.
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Endless Paths: College, university, workforce/trade, military, entrepreneurship, and hybrid pathways are equally resourced and equally respected.
Remove ultra-processed foods, artificial dyes, and specified additives from school meals and require stronger testing and transparency for drinking water.
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The plan also requires testing in every Florida school for lead and contaminants, post results publicly, and requiring fixes wherever unsafe levels are found. It prioritizes free or subsidized testing and remediation for families with young children on private wells, and aligns Florida’s testing panel with the EPA’s April 2026 draft Sixth Contaminant Candidate List, which for the first time designates microplastics and pharmaceuticals as priority contaminants alongside PFAS.
Expand government audits and create centralized public access to state and local spending, contracts, salaries, budgets, fees, and financial reports.
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Add tax allocation charts to annual property tax notices.
Review local fees and require greater disclosure of how they are calculated and spent
Defend gun rights, oppose abortion, and oppose school policies he describes as 'woke ideology.'
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Protect Our Conservative Values:
Expand and modernize Florida infrastructure so transportation, utilities, and public systems keep pace with population growth.
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Florida Means Business
Complete Everglades restoration, improve water quality and supply, and protect Florida beaches and natural resources.
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As Governor, Byron Donalds will work to complete Everglades Restoration, improve water quality , expand access to water supply, and protect our beaches and natural resources
Complete Florida legislative and U.S. House floor records and selected highlights
The searchable archive combines 1,503 directly captured Florida House floor positions and 2,884 U.S. House positions (1,766 Yea, 923 Nay, 9 Present, 165 Not Voting, 21 other explicitly recorded choice). Every record retains its chamber and exact official evidence. The examples below remain representative highlights rather than a scorecard.
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See all 4,387 recordsPassed, 232-198
Donalds voted for passage of H.R. 7008.
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Roll Call 280 | Bill Number: H. R. 7008
Vote Question: On Passage
Stop Insider Trading Act
Donalds | Republican | FL | Yea
Passed, 214-208
Donalds voted against agreeing to H. Con. Res. 89.
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Roll Call 282 | Bill Number: H. Con. Res. 89
Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran
Donalds | Republican | FL | Nay
Passed, 216-212
Donalds voted for passage of H.R. 8800.
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Roll Call 278 | Bill Number: H. R. 8800
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
Donalds | Republican | FL | Yea
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Byron Donalds REP GOV 11,914,068.39
Donalds, Byron REP GOV 4,829,147.24
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Florida Division of Elections
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Polk County Supervisor of Elections
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Office of U.S. Representative Byron Donalds
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Byron Donalds for Governor
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Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
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