2024 Election Candidates

Click the names below to learn more about the candidates who will be listed on the Nov. 5 general election ballots. For the candidates with stories, their responses to the Observer's questionnaires are posted at the end of the article.

Florida House of Representatives

District 72

• Bill Conerly (REP)
• Lesa Miller (DEM)

Sarasota County

County Commission

District 1

• Teresa Mast (REP)
• Hope Williams (Write-in)

District 3

• Sharon Kay Thornton (NPA)
• Tom Knight (REP)
  

Charter Review Board

District 1 

• Julie Forestier (DEM)
• Jay Riley (REP)

District 2

• Stephen Webber (REP)

District 3

• Tom DeSane (REP)
• William Brad Hardin (DEM)

District 4

• Greg "Tex" Bukowski (REP)
• Robin Williams (DEM)

District 5

• Nancy Ceci (DEM)
• Jose Jimenez (REP)

Hospital Board At Large

Seat 1

• Sharon Wetzler DePeters (REP)
• Ethan Garrett (Write-in)
• Suzanne Hatatah (Write-in)
• Alan Sprintz (DEM)
• Jennifer Lee Zambrano (Write-in)

Seat 2

• Dale Anderson (DEM)
• Kevin Cooper (REP)

Seat 3

• Pam Beitlich (REP)
• Emilio Carlesimo (Write-in)*
• George Davis (DEM)
• Curt Erlandson (Write-in)

Hospital Board Central District

Seat 1

• Sarah Lodge (REP)
• Vicki Lynn Nighswander (DEM)
• Barbara Miller Vaughn (Write-in)

Tax Collector

• Barbara Ford-Coates (DEM)
• Mike Moran (REP)

Sarasota City Commission

District 1

• Sequoia Felton
• Kyle Battie

District 2

• Liz Alpert
• Ron Kashden

District 3

• Erik Arroyo 
• Kathy Kelly Ohlrich

Manatee County

County Commission

District 1

• Carol Felts (REP)
• Jennifer (Jen) Lynne Hamey (NPA)
• Glenn Pearson (DEM)

District 3

• Jeffrey Gray (Write-in)
• Diana Shoemaker (DEM)
• Tal Siddique (REP)

District 5

• Joseph Di Bartolomeo (NPA)
• Robert McCann (REP)

District 7

• George Kruse
• Sari A. Lindroos-Valimaki (DEM)
• Nathan Meyer (Write-in)

School Board

District 1

• Heather Felton (NP)
• Mark Stanoch (NP)

District 3

• Jonathan Lynch (NP)

Supervisor of Elections

• Thomas Dell (Write-in)
• Scott Farrington (REP)

*Candidate chose not to respond