Election 2024: Brevard Primary results
The polls have closed and voters have spoken in a slew of primary race across Brevard County.
Republicans and Democrats had primary races to pick their choices for a variety of seats in the November election including Congress, the Florida Legislature, and the County Commission. Additionally, there were non-partisan races including for School Board and also for the cities of Titusville and Palm Bay.
Brevard County election results 2024
Adkinson edges Dittmore in County Commission District 3 GOP primary
The polls have closed on the Brevard County Commission District 3 with Republican committee woman Kim Adkinson winning the race by a slim margin Tuesday evening.
Adkinson narrowly defeated West Melbourne city councilman John Dittmore with 50.7% of the vote.
Adkinson will now go on to face Democrat Yvonne Minus, a Melbourne City Councilwoman in the Nov. 5 general election.
Delaney wins GOP primary for County Commission District 1
The polls have closed on the Brevard County Commission District 1 primary with conservative activist Katie Delaney winning by a healthy margin.
Delaney bested Titusville Mayor Dan Diesel and former Titusville city councilman and School Board member Robert Jordan, along with Mims community activist Dwight Seigler.
District 1 includes North Brevard, including Cocoa, Port St. John, Titusville and Mims.
Delaney will face a Democrat, former Keep Brevard Beautiful Executive Director Bryan Bobbitt, and a Libertarian candidate, activist and former Titusville City Council candidate Nathan Slusher, in the Nov. 5 general election.
Altman wins GOP primary for District 5 commission
Rep. Thad Altman has won a decisive victory over Ritch Workman in the Republican primary for the County Commission District 5 seat.
With early and mail-in votes, plus 25 of 26 precincts reporting, Altman had 6,991 votes to Workman's 2,907.
Altman, who has served in both the Florida House and Senate, is no stranger to county-level government, Altman previously sat on the District 5 seat for two terms from 1984 to 1992.
Altman will go on to face Democrat Vinnie Taranto in the general election on Nov. 5.
Haridopolos wins GOP primary for Posey's congressional seat
Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos won the GOP primary for Congress in District 8.
Early returns showed Haridopolos with 73.67% of the Brevrad County total of the vote.
Political newcomer John Hearton, the chairman of the board of GeoWireless, a wireless infrastructure and cybersecurity company, had 20.58%.
House District 8 includes all of Brevard and Indian River counties, plus part of eastern Orange County. Results from Orange and Indian River County weren't available as of 7:45 p.m.
The winner of the Republican primary will face Democrat attorney Sandy Kennedy. This was the seat held by U.S. Rep. Bill Posey, who decided not to seek reelection.
Kennedy to face Haridopolos in race for Congress
Attorney Sandy Kennedy defeated West Melbourne City Council member Daniel McDow in a Democratic primary for Congress in District 8.
In Brevard County, with 159 of 162 precincts reporting, Kennedy had 60.12% of the vote, compared with 39.88% for McDow,
In Indian River County, with all 34 precincts reporting, Kennedy had 63.45% of the vote, compared with 36.55% for McDow.
Kennedy will face former Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos in the Nov. 5 general election. Haridopolos easily defeated two other candidates in the Republican primary.
Titusville mayor's race headed for runoff
Vickie Conklin and Andrew Connors will face off against each other in a November runoff election to determine the next Titusville mayor.
Conklin and Connors advance to the November election after they were the top two vote getters in Tuesday’s primary election. Had one of the candidates gotten a majority of the votes, that person would have secured the mayor’s seat.
Candidate Joe Robinson was knocked out of the race when he came in third place with 21.38% of the votes.
Conklin received 43.21% of the votes and Connors got 35.40%
John Thomas claims seat on Brevard School Board
Former Melbourne city council member and previous school administrator John Thomas has won Brevard's primary election for the District 3 seat on school board, with preliminary results giving him a lead of about 13% over Amber Yantz, a Palm Bay mother of five.
By 8 p.m., with 26 of 27 precincts reporting, Thomas had 10,403 votes (56.54%), while Yantz had 7,995 (43.46%).
School Board District 4 race enters runoff
The District 4 primary race for Brevard's school board will head to a November runoff, with no candidate taking more than 50% of the vote.
Out of 24,484 votes, Matt Susin took the lead in the race with 11,899 votes (48.60%) and will face off in November's general election against mom and member of the U.S. Navy Avanese "Ava" Taylor, who took 8,038 votes (32.83%).
Former teacher Keith Schachter and recent Viera High School graduate Max Madl came in behind Susin and Taylor, with Schachter nabbing 2,621 votes (10.70%) and Madl taking 1,926 (7.87%).
Lisa Cullen defeats Pritchett in Tax Collector contest
It appears Lisa Cullen will continue her reign as Brevard's Tax Collector.
Cullen easily defeated challenger County Commissioner Rita Pritchett.
She'll still have to face a write-in candidate in November.
Bobanic beats Tobia in Supervisor of Elections race
Brevard County Supervisor of Elections Tim Bobanic has jumped out to an early lead over his challenger, Brevard County Commissioner John Tobia.
Early returns show Bobanic with 59.59%, compared with 40.41% for Tobia.
Randy Fine wins in State Senate District 19
State Rep. Randy Fine won the GOP primary in a landslide victory for the State Senate District 19 seat.
Fine easily topped opponent Charles "Chuck" Sheridan. Sheridan, a retired Brevard County contractor and hotel developer, was racing against Fine for the GOP nod to fill the seat currently held by Republican State Sen. Debbie Mayfield.
Mayfield was unable to run again due to term limits.
Fine will face Brevard Democrat Vance Ehrens in the November general election.
Mayfield defeats Weldon in primary for Florida House District 32
State Senator Debbie Mayfield easily topped former Congressman Dave Weldon Tuesday in the GOP primary race for the Florida House District 32 seat.
Mayfield got 12,960 votes (64.99%) to Weldon's 6,980 (35.01%), with 100% of precincts reporting.
Mayfield will face Democrat Juan Jose Hinojosa of Rockledge on Nov. 5, who was unopposed in the primary.
Monique Miller wins GOP primary in House District 33
Monique Miller beat out three challengers Tuesday in the GOP primary race for the Florida House Dist. 33 Seat.
With all 31 precincts reporting, Miller took 7,666 votes (55.14%) in the GOP primary race for the Florida House Dist. 33 Seat.
The race included four Republicans: Miller, Mike Limongello, Logan Luse and Erika Orriss.
Miller will face Democrat Vernon Mitchell Anderson Jr., who beat challenger Anthony Yantz.
Vernon Anderson wins Democrat primary for House District 33
Vernon Mitchell Anderson Jr. defeated Anthony Yantz for the Florida House Democratic primary race for the Florida House Dist. 33 Seat.
With all 31 precincts reporting, Anderson took 4,878 (53.10%) votes and Yantz got 4,308 votes (46.90%).
The winner hopes to defeat Republican Monique Miller on Nov. 5 and break that 32-year losing streak for Democrats in this contest.
Palm Bay Mayor Rob Medina retains his seat
Palm Bay Mayor Rob Medina bested a trio of challengers in Tuesday's primary election, retaining his seat by nabbing 55.33 percent of the vote.
The mayoral race pitted Medina against Edith Rivera, a retired real estate broker associate; Tatiana Rosado, an aerospace and defense procurement manager; and Santa Isabel Wright, who is self-employed. Rosado came in behind Medina with 23.37 percent of the total 17,331 votes cast.
Palm Bay is Brevard County's biggest city, boasting a population of 136,059 residents as of last October based on residential electric meter counts. The city sprawls across roughly 88 square miles.
Judge results are in
General Magistrate Kristen Smith-Rodriguez is the projected winner of the Circuit Judge Group 17 judge race against Andrea Fant, while a three-way race for County Judge Group 6 is likely to go to a run-off election in November.
Only three of 10 judge races were contested this election season: Circuit Judge Group 17, and County Court Judge Groups 6 and 10. Incumbents ran unopposed in seven other races.
FLORIDA TODAY projects Smith-Rodriguez to win the circuit judge race against Assistant Public Defender Fant with 52.71% of the vote, with 159 of 162 precincts reporting.
No candidate got more than 50% of the vote in a three-way race for County Court Group 6 between Assistant State Attorney Clarissa Harrell and private attorneys Jacob "Jay" Speicher and Margaret "Maggie" Wagner. Harrell (39.41%) and Wagner (35.79%) are the likely contestants for a run-off election in November. Speicher got 24.80% of the vote.
County Court Group 10 pits Assistant State Attorney Jonathan Skinner against private attorney Timi DeAnn Tucker. The race was still too close to call with just over 2 percentage points between the candidates and three precincts still unreported Tuesday night.
Election night website issues
Brevard County Supervisor of Elections Tim Bobanic delivered this website update to the Brevard County Canvassing Board.
“I just want to make everybody aware that we’re having some issues with votebrevard.gov. It’s happening to most of the supervisor of elections sites across the state. Most of us use the same website vendor — but that’s why we put our election night results on a completely separate Amazon web service cloud. So while you might have slow difficulty getting the vote at votebrevard.gov, we’ve put out the direct link to all the media, social media and everything like that, so the results aren’t delayed. My initial reports are, one county of the 67 who uses the site as a vendor decided to put some third-party product that’s hammering the servers with half a million hits a minute.”
This article originally appeared on Florida Today: Election 2024 results Brevard primary
