2010 Florida elections
Main contenders for Florida's open Senate seat include Republican Marco Rubio, Democrat Kendrick Meek, and independent Charlie Crist, along with many other third-party and independent candidates. All twenty-five of Florida's seats in the United States House of Representatives are up for election in 2010. Incumbent governor Charlie Crist did not run for re-election, choosing instead to run for election as senator (initially as a Republican, then later as an independent). In Florida, the governor and lieutenant governor run as a ticket. Republican Rick Scott and Democrat Alex Sink won their respective party's primaries; Scott named Jennifer Carroll as his lieutenant-governor running mate while Sink named Rod Smith. Scott would go on to win the general election by plurality, thus holding the seat for the GOP. Approximately one-half of the forty seats of the Florida Senate were up for election in 2010. All 120 seats in the Florida House of Representatives are up for election in 2010. Republican Pam Bondi, Democrat Dan Gelber and independent Jim Lewis ran for Florida Attorney General, with Bondi winning the election. The other state-level offices within the Florida Cabinet up for election were the chief financial officer and the commissioner of agriculture and consumer services. The Republican candidates (Jeff Atwater and Adam Putnam, respectively) won their elections. Multiple judicial positions will be up for election in 2010, including four justices of the Supreme Court of Florida. Seven measures have been certified for the 2010 ballot. Many elections for county offices were also held on November 2, 2010.
Local
Elections were held in Florida on Tuesday, November 2, 2010. Primary elections were held on August 24, 2010.