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Martínez's margin of victory was small enough that a winner was not declared until Castor conceded the day after the election. Twelve of Martinez's 25 stops on taxpayer-funded domestic trips as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 2003 were to Florida cities, at the same time that he was also campaigning for Senate in Florida. [15]
Republican Mel Martínez, the former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, was elected to the Senate in 2004, defeating Democrat Betty Castor, the former president of the University of South Florida and former Florida Education Commissioner, by 82,663 votes, 49.4% to 48.3%.
The primary elections were held on August 31, 2004. Republican Mel Martínez won the open seat with 49.4% of the vote to Democratic nominee Betty Castor's 48.3%. With a margin of 1.1%, this election was the closest race of the 2004 Senate election cycle. This was the first open-seat United States Senate election in Florida for this seat since 1974.
The last time a sitting Florida governor fulfilled a vacancy in the U.S. Senate was in 2009, when then-Gov. Charlie Crist picked chief of staff George LeMieux to replace U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez ...
CREW had previously filed a similar complaint concerning a Bacardi fundraising event for Republican Senator Mel Martinez, an event that raised as much as $60,000 for Martinez's campaign. The amended complaint alleged that, on both occasions, Bacardi violated the Federal Election Campaign Act and FEC regulations by soliciting contributions from ...
Florida's U.S. Senate seats were declared vacant in March 1861, due to its secession from the Union. They were filled again in July 1868. The state is currently represented by Republicans Marco Rubio (serving since 2011) and Rick Scott (serving since 2019). Duncan U. Fletcher was Florida's longest-serving senator (1909–1936).
The Florida Senate race has been made more complicated by recent hurricanes Helene and Milton that flattened some communities and put federal support for victims in the spotlight.
Fifteen years ago, former Gov. Charlie Crist picked his own chief, George LeMieux, to replace Bob Martinez after the senator stepped down midterm. Crist went on to be rejected by the GOP for Rubio ...