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U.S. House - FL-20 · Florida · 2026

General election · 3 on the November ballot · Incumbent running

VecD 27 · TiltingTenD 82%Att58

Result

Called

Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) won this race with 74.4% of the vote, 52.6 points ahead.

  • Debbie Wasserman SchultzDemocraticWinner74.4%182,712 votes
  • Brent AndersenRepublican21.7%53,396 votes
  • Kedner MaximeIndependent3.9%9,598 votes
Margin
129,316 votes (52.6 points)
Called
Called by Wikipedia editors, Nov 3, 7:18 PM ET (revision)
Last updated
Nov 7, 8:53 AM ET

Called it: hit Our locked call before polls closed was D; the winner is D. See every locked call

Unofficial until the state certifies the result.

Before the election

Polls, ratings and the Vugol Tensor below were published before votes were counted. They are not results.

CandidatesU.S. House - FL-20 · Florida
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
DIncumbent
DEM
Brent Andersen
R
REP
No verified poll yet · Vugol Vector: D Tilting

Model rating Leans Democratic (Tilting) on the Vugol Vector model, a snapshot of today, not a probability.

No polls on file for this race. Model inputs: 3 of 7, updated today. Page updated 2026-11-14. Sources · What is validated

ExperimentalNews attention 58/100, how much coverage the race gets, not who is winning. Updated yesterday. How it works

On the Florida ballot, Nov 3, 2026 United States Representative, District 20, 3 names on the official list. Election Day has passed; see the ballot as it was.Voting in Florida? Check your registration, get a mail ballot, find your polling place.

On the November ballot (3)

From reported primary results, checked 2026-11-14. Each state certifies its own ballot; see the source below.

Ran in the primary (7)

Lost a primary or runoff for this seat, not on the November ballot.

Ballot source: https://floridaelectionwatch.gov/FederalOffices/USSenator

Early vote in Florida

5,547,554 ballots cast statewide as of 2026-11-14 · registered Democrats 37.8%, Republicans 40.1%, unaffiliated 19.6%. Turnout by registration, not votes; never part of the rating. Full tracker →

Latest verified field polling

Verified = published by the pollster that conducted it, with a public source we link to.

none yet

No verified poll has been published for this race. The Vugol Vector call from our model is below, it is not a poll.

Polling average

no polls yet

No polls on file for this race yet. See latest polls across every race.

Campaign money (FEC)

Candidate committee totals for the cycle from the Federal Election Commission (public domain), as of each committee's latest report.

CandidateRaisedSpentCash on handThrough
Debbie Wasserman Schultz Democratic$3,707,925$3,980,664$784,5702026-10-14
Sheila Cherfilus-Mccormick Democratic$389,258$386,958$-1,2642026-07-29
Brent Andersen Republican$100,350$83,795$16,5552026-10-14
Carla Arlene Spalding Republican$36,539$46,256$17,2832026-09-30
Dale V.c. Holness Democratic$456,487$467,340$8,2292026-09-30
Elijah Manley Democratic$1,337,928$1,335,773$2,1552026-10-14
Kedner Maxime Independent$126,573$67,222$59,3512026-10-14
Lateresa A Jones Republican$11,002$10,898$1302026-06-30
Luther Campbell Democratic$163,622$101,126$62,4962026-09-30
Rodenay Joseph Republican$105,472$105,115$3572026-09-30

Ad spending (FEC)

What each campaign reported paying for ads, and what outside groups (super PACs, PACs and parties) reported spending for and against each candidate. Federal Election Commission filings, public domain.

CandidateCampaign's own adsOutside groups forOutside groups against
Debbie Wasserman Schultz Democratic$295K+ $429K mail · through 2026-07-29$306K$250K ads · 3 groups$67K$65K ads · 1 group
Elijah Manley Democratic$177K+ $38K mail · through 2026-07-29$26K$0 ads · 2 groupsnone reported
Dale V.c. Holness Democratic$13K+ $49K mail · through 2026-07-29none reportednone reported
Rodenay Joseph Republican$12K+ $3,394 mail · through 2026-09-30none reportednone reported
Kedner Maxime Independent$5,484+ $2,235 mail · through 2026-10-14none reportednone reported
Sheila Cherfilus-Mccormick Democratic$5,404+ $4,563 mail · through 2026-07-29none reportednone reported

Biggest outside spenders

  • Debbie Wasserman Schultz. For: Pro-Choice Majority Action $250K, BLUE FLORIDA MAJORITY $56K, EQUALITY FLORIDA ACTION INC. $13. Against: AMERICA'S RENEWAL PAC, INC. $67K
  • Elijah Manley. For: SF SOLIDARITY PAC $25K, Dream Defenders Fight PAC $1,142

Outside groups: 24- and 48-hour independent expenditure reports for the 2026 primary and general, through 2026-09-14, each expenditure counted once after amendments; "ads" is TV, radio, digital and other media, and the rest is mail, phones, canvassing and similar. Campaign's own ads: TV, radio, digital, other media and ad production in the campaign committee's itemized payments, as the campaign described them, from the reports the FEC has processed (latest through 2026-10-14); newer reports appear as the FEC processes them. These are amounts committees reported paying, not airtime tracked by ad-monitoring firms, so very recent buys and future reservations may not show yet. Parser fec-ad-spend-1.0.0.

Results

Vote counts from the state’s own results feed, read every minute while votes are counted. Counts change until the state certifies.

general election · state results feed, unofficial

Debbie Wasserman Schultz won182,71274.4%
Brent Andersen53,39621.7%
Kedner Maxime9,5983.9%

Debbie Wasserman Schultz leads by 129,316 votes.

Democratic primary

Debbie Wasserman Schultz (incumbent) won30,50545.3%
Dale Holness15,57123.1%
Elijah Manley9,37713.9%
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick6,1939.2%
Luther Campbell5,6918.5%

Republican primary

Brent Andersen won7,44253.8%
Rod Joseph2,83120.5%
Carla Spalding2,70119.5%
Lateresa Jones8666.3%

Source: the state's official results feed, retrieved 2026-11-07 · parser state-feed-1.0.0

Key dates

Official federal election dates for this state from the FEC. Registration deadlines and early voting: see the state election office.

  • 2026-08-18, Primary election: U.S. House
  • 2026-11-03, General election: U.S. House

Source: FEC election dates (public domain).

Primary and hypothetical polls (3)

Kept on file, never averaged into this race. Polls listed on the Wikipedia election article (CC BY-SA 4.0), each linked to that article revision and, where we know it, to the pollster's own site.

  • Democratic primary · Listener Group/ Political Matrix News (partisan) · 2026-05-29–2026-06-01 · n=500 · Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) 39%,Elijah Manley (D) 21%,Dale Holness (D) 15%,Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D) 3%,Luther Campbell (D) 2% · release
  • Democratic primary · Listener Group/ Political Matrix News (partisan) · 2026-02-24–2026-02-28 · n=400 · Elijah Manley (D) 35%,Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D) 31%,Dale Holness (D) 13%,Luther Campbell (D) 1% · release
  • Democratic primary · Listener Group/ Political Matrix News (partisan) · 2026-02-02–2026-02-04 · n=300 · Elijah Manley (D) 38%,Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D) 35%,Dale Holness (D) 10% · release

In the news

Headlines from outlets across the political spectrum, linked to the publisher. Vugol.me doesn’t write or endorse them. How we choose them · All election news

Lab

Vugol Vector & Vugol Attention

Vugol Attention 58 Vugol Vector D · Tilting

Vugol Me model signals, not polls. Verified polling is in the Polls section above.

Vugol Me Attention (attention intensity)

Vugol Attention intensity index 0–100 · not a poll · normalized nightly

attention-1.0.0
58OUT OF 100Moderate attention
Vugol Attention percentile84th
7-day momentum20 / 100
Source breadth50% of tracked

Vugol Vector

Proprietary ensemble model · a call, not a probability · model confidence: low

vector-1.1.0
Democratic leanOpen centerRepublican lean
AnchoredHeldTiltingOpenTiltingHeldAnchored
Completeness3 of 7 inputs (national, incumbent, money) · missing: prior, pres, pulse, poll
Evidenceno audit release · fundamentals only
Freshnessoldest input 2026-11-13 (yesterday)

The breakdown of this call (the model's multi-signal input matrix, input by input) is on Ultra Pro plans.

Vugol Tensor

How far this call can miss · a range, not a prediction · no verified poll here, so the range is wider and untested

tensor-1.0.0

Centre D+6.8. Four times in five the result lands between D+16.2 and R+2.6; nine in ten between D+18.9 and R+5.3. Chance the Democrat finishes ahead: 82%.

Polls have missed by about four points in a typical race and they miss together. How Tensor works →

Desk data: daily telemetry

Per-source daily series, CSV export and the Vugol Vector breakdown · paid plans

Sources

Vugol Vector band: D · Tilting. Have a say in the Vugol race poll; it is open to signed-in voters and never feeds these numbers.

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How sure we are: ranges and chamber-control odds around the Vector, built from past polling error. An experiment about uncertainty, not a better guess.
Vugol Attention
How much news and online noise a race gets, 0 to 100. It measures noise, not support: a high score says nothing about who is ahead.
Vugol Pulse
Our daily thumbs-up or thumbs-down question for readers. Anyone can answer, so it describes our readers, not the public. It is not a vote and never enters a poll average or any other signal.