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Republican Jimmy Patronis Wins Florida Congressional Race; Democrat Carries Escambia
April 2, 2025
Republican Jimmy Patronis defeated Democrat Gay Valimont in Tuesday’s special election to succeed U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz to keep Florida’s 1st Congressional District in Republican hands.
Patronis, who was endorsed by President Donald Trump, received 57% of the vote to 42% for Valimont. Stephen Brody, no-party candidate, received about 1% of the vote.
Valimont, however, was the top vote getter in Escambia County with 51.10% of the vote to 48.06% for Patronis.
“Thank you, Northwest Florida. Not all districts are built the same — the Panhandle is a force of its own,” Patronis said Tuesday night during his victory speech. “I’m going to Washington to help President Trump battle against all this far left insanity, to buttress his strong moves to return common sense to America, to pull our country out of the ditch. I like to think that when President Trump says Make America Great Again, he’s thinking about us. I am humbled by all of the support in this race. I’m no better than anyone else and I will do everything I can to represent this district.”
Last November, Valimont lost to Gaetz with 36 points as the district favorite Trump by 38 points.
Patronis has served for a nearly a decade as Florida’ Chief Financial Officer, but he was forced to resign as of Monday to run for Congress.
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27 Responses to “Republican Jimmy Patronis Wins Florida Congressional Race; Democrat Carries Escambia”
BIG thanks to everyone who voted. Patronis LOST Escambia County by 3%! After 30 years I believe we are finally on the right track!
Valimont did not carry Escambia County, voter apathy did.
At 29% of Escambia voters, Democrats alone did not cause Valimont to win Escambia County. There must be tremendous erosion of Republican support among No Party Affiliation (NPA) voters. Thanks to Don and Elon.
If the stock market/tariff announcement had had its meltdown on March 31, the numbers for Patronis would have been much weaker.
A few Republican voters, like myself, vote in Republican primaries for the most moderate candidates, then vote Democrat in general elections. I love my role being a thorn, and maybe even a spoiler!
Oh, and Jimmy might want to think about changing his residence out of Bay County. That might help.
You guys love throwing the word “woke” around…would one of you please define it or are you just parroting what you heard on the faux news channel. “woke means…well whatever I’m against..” How about wake up and see what going on in this country as it goes down in flames
Unfortunately, money talks. Democrats spent 6.5 million versus Republicans spending less than 1 million district wide. That’s $9.00 dollars per Republican vote, and $89.00 per Democrat vote. This was mostly spent on hate talks ads and it almost worked. By the way most of this money did not come from this part of Florida
Those that moved to Escambia County brought they’re politics with them. Thankfully I don’t live in Escambia County anymore but with the influx of new residents there and other counties in the area, Florida will be a complete disaster in a few years. Lord help us!
Half of Escambia County miss the good old joe biden days with the world on fire .
Well by the time we get midterms and most folks see the economic disaster that’s been imposed on most, woke won’t even be a term used anymore. It will be “joke.” What a joke it will have been that voters of the red voted against their own interests, financial and otherwise, for simply “populism.” We said, “be careful what you hope for!” Now you got it. Enjoy!
Many believe those who don’t vote for a person obligated to support whatever 78 year old Donald Trump wants are “woke” — whatever that means — and wanting our homes and homeland destroyed
I often get the impression it means aware of the needs and feelings of others, but that can’t be it since Christ commander such an attitude so it must be something else. Assuming Donald’s plans are good for America and our district and should be blindly followed may not seem reasonable to those with memories.
We shall see
Once this greaseball gets there and lays down for President Musk, the VA will be gutted. Nice job Jimmy.
Bring back Matt Gaetz !
So finally some voters in this area getting tired of the Republican nonsense. 30 years of Repub rule and where are we???? HIghest homeowners insurance in the US, 3rd highest auto.. Time to do some reconsidering on who represents… Gaetz was getting ready to be fried in Congress, so he bowed out in the nick of time. It is time for a change here.
Dems vote in these type of elections more than Rep.That’s why it looks so close. So don’t get all excited Libs. Just enough Reps showed up to keep it red and that’s good enough. LOL
May the best man win.
Nothing surprises me about Escambia County anymore.
I didn’t know there was that many Karens in Escambia County.
Patronis lost a R+16 county. That’s wild. If anything that shows he shouldn’t have had Trump’s endorsement and he shouldn’t have been the nominee. Wow.
Jimmy, don’t you mean that you’re going to Washington to help trump lay waste to the country?
@Patricia; Thank God that the other three counties in District 1 are not “woke” enough
He doesn’t even live in our district…
Now watch the Republicans snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory .
Escambia voters lost they mind.
After all of the insanity on the left we’ve seen, I’m not sure how they could get a single vote.
Everyone needs to vote next time. Or this will just happen again. Hard to believe 51% of escambia wants to go woke.
I wasn’t impressed with either candidate.
When I was growing up there were kids that didn’t know their left from their right…. I guess this guy is still confused stating “all the insanity on the left”! Thank God more than half of Escambia County woke up!!!
Hard to believe Escambia Co, in hard red NWFL went for the Democrat.