Piotr Blass

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Piotr Blass

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Piotr Blass (No Party Affiliation) ran for election for Governor of Florida. He was disqualified as a write-in from the general election scheduled on November 8, 2022.

Elections

2022

See also: Florida gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2022

General election

General election for Governor of Florida

Incumbent Ron DeSantis defeated Charlie Crist, Carmen Gimenez, and Hector Roos in the general election for Governor of Florida on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Ron DeSantis (R)	59.4	4,614,210
		Charlie Crist (D)	40.0	3,106,313
		Carmen Gimenez (No Party Affiliation)	0.4	31,577
		Hector Roos (L)	0.2	19,299

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 7,771,399
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Kyle Gibson (No Party Affiliation)
• Frank Hughes Jr. (No Party Affiliation)
• Piotr Blass (No Party Affiliation)
• Jodi Jeloudov (No Party Affiliation)
• James Thompson (No Party Affiliation)
• Mark Graham (Unity Party)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Governor of Florida

Charlie Crist defeated Nikki Fried, Cadance Daniel, and Robert Willis in the Democratic primary for Governor of Florida on August 23, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Charlie Crist	59.7	904,524
		Nikki Fried	35.3	535,480
		Cadance Daniel	2.5	38,198
		Robert Willis	2.4	36,786

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 1,514,988
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Richard Dembinsky (D)
• David Nelson Freeman (D)
• Amaro Lionheart (D)
• Annette Taddeo (D)
• Alex Lundmark (D)

Republican primary election

The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Ron DeSantis advanced from the Republican primary for Governor of Florida.

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• John Joseph Mercadante (R)

Libertarian primary election

The Libertarian primary election was canceled. Hector Roos advanced from the Libertarian primary for Governor of Florida.

Campaign finance

2020

See also: Florida's 21st Congressional District election, 2020

Florida's 21st Congressional District election, 2020 (August 18 Republican primary)

Florida's 21st Congressional District election, 2020 (August 18 Democratic primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Florida District 21

Incumbent Lois Frankel defeated Laura Loomer, Charleston Malkemus, Sylvia Caravetta, and Piotr Blass in the general election for U.S. House Florida District 21 on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Lois Frankel (D)	59.0	237,925
		Laura Loomer (R)	39.1	157,612
		Charleston Malkemus (No Party Affiliation)	1.9	7,544
		Sylvia Caravetta (No Party Affiliation) (Write-in)	0.0	8
		Piotr Blass (R) (Write-in)	0.0	4

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 403,093
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Stephen Canton (Independent)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 21

Incumbent Lois Frankel defeated Guido Weiss in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 21 on August 18, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Lois Frankel	86.0	75,504
		Guido Weiss	14.0	12,308

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source 1 Source 2	Total votes: 87,812
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Adam Aarons (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 21

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 21 on August 18, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Laura Loomer	42.5	14,526
		Christian Acosta	25.5	8,724
		Michael Vilardi	12.3	4,194
		Aaron Scanlan	9.4	3,221
		Elizabeth Felton	7.1	2,421
		Reba Sherrill	3.1	1,070

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source 1 Source 2	Total votes: 34,156
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Michael Bluemling Jr. (R)
• Victor Garcia da Rosa (R)

2018

See also: Florida gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2018 and Florida gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2018 (August 28 Democratic primary)

Blass ran as a write-in candidate.

General election

General election for Governor of Florida

The following candidates ran in the general election for Governor of Florida on November 6, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Ron DeSantis (R)	49.6	4,076,186
		Andrew Gillum (D)	49.2	4,043,723
		Darcy Richardson (Reform Party)	0.6	47,140
		Kyle Gibson (No Party Affiliation)	0.3	24,310
		Ryan Foley (No Party Affiliation)	0.2	14,630
		Bruce Stanley (No Party Affiliation)	0.2	14,505
		Other/Write-in votes	0.0	66

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 8,220,560 (100.00% precincts reporting)
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Raphael Herman (No Party Affiliation)
• Randy Wiseman (L)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Governor of Florida

The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for Governor of Florida on August 28, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Andrew Gillum	34.4	522,164
		Gwen Graham	31.3	474,875
		Philip Levine	20.3	308,801
		Jeff Greene	10.1	152,955
		Christopher King	2.5	37,616
		John Wetherbee	0.9	14,426
		Alex Lundmark	0.6	8,655

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 1,519,492
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Richard Dembinsky (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for Governor of Florida

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for Governor of Florida on August 28, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Ron DeSantis	56.5	916,298
		Adam Putnam	36.5	592,518
		Bob White	2.0	32,710
		Timothy Devine	1.3	21,380
		Bob Langford	1.2	19,842
		Bruce Nathan	0.9	14,556
		Don Baldauf	0.8	13,173
		John Joseph Mercadante	0.7	11,647

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 1,622,124
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Angel Rivera (R)

2016

Blass was a 2016 presidential candidate.^[1]

2014

See also: Florida gubernatorial election, 2014

Blass ran on a write-in ticket for Governor of Florida in 2014. His running mate for lieutenant governor was Bob Wirengard. The general election took place on November 4, 2014.

Results

Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Florida, 2014
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Republican	Rick Scott/Carlos Lopez-Cantera Incumbent	48.1%	2,865,343
	Democratic	Charlie Crist/Annette Taddeo-Goldstein	47.1%	2,801,198
	Libertarian	Adrian Wyllie/Greg Roe	3.8%	223,356
	No Party Affiliation	Glenn Burkett/Jose Augusto Matos	0.7%	41,341
	No Party Affiliation	Farid Khavari/Lateresa Jones	0.3%	20,186
	Nonpartisan	Write-in votes	0%	137
Total Votes				5,951,561
Election results via Florida Division of Elections

Race background

Republican incumbent Rick Scott was re-elected to a second term as governor in 2014. Sources such as Governing, Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball, The Cook Political Report, The Washington Post, and Daily Kos had rated Scott among the most vulnerable governors of the electoral cycle.^{[2][3][4][5][6]} Polls projected a close contest between Scott and former Republican Governor Charlie Crist, who became a Democrat before mounting his comeback bid against Scott. Indeed, the race came down to the wire on election night.^[7]

Education debate

Charlie Crist and Rick Scott debated education funding as the primary election transitioned into a general election. Prior to the Republican primary, Scott announced that he would boost per-pupil spending to record levels if re-elected in November. The governor's office published a statement promising an increase in per-pupil funding to $7,132 per student for the 2016 fiscal year, which would surpass the $7,126 per student rate passed during Crist's first year as governor in 2007. He cited improving job figures in his office's optimistic outlook on public education financing.^[8]

Crist toured the state in a school bus in August in order to highlight cuts in public education since Scott won election. He noted that the governor facilitated $1.3 billion in education cuts during the 2012 fiscal year.^[8] Crist stated on his campaign website that he would push public schools and their partners to reach the top 10 percent of schools globally as measured by reading, math, and science scores by 2020.^[9]

Ad spending, influence

The Scott vs. Crist election battle was played out through television ads during the general election. Whether sponsored by the campaigns themselves or produced and aired through independent expenditures, many of the commercials were negative.

In late September, Scott committed an additional $8 million to run television commercials, next to Crist's roughly $5.5 million ad-buy increase. By this point in the campaign, the two frontrunners' marketing campaigns had reached the $50 million mark. Scott was responsible for 71 percent, or over $35 million, of this sum. Polls conducted during this stage indicated a slight improvement for Scott, though they still showed a close race. These marginal gains invited comparisons to his victory in 2010, which was attributed in large part to an emphasis on TV commercials.^[10]

Primary races

In June 2013, former Florida Sen. Nan Rich became the first Democratic candidate in the race. She was later joined by former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who had recently switched from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party. Crist's candidacy posed a challenge to Scott's re-election campaign, according to match-up and approval polls dating back as far as May 2012.^[11][12][13]

Long affiliated with the Republican Party, Crist's first party switch occurred in 2010, when, after losing the Republican primary for U.S. Senate to Marco Rubio, he changed his registration to independent as an alternative route to reaching the general election ballot. In the fall of 2013, Crist became a Democrat.^[14]

By October 2013, there were over 20 potential candidates actively petitioning for a place on the primary and general election ballots.^[15] When the filing window finally closed on June 20, 2014, the number had dropped to 18 qualified gubernatorial candidates. The Republican field settled to three, including Scott, while the Democratic field remained a head-to-head battle between Crist and Rich. Unopposed Libertarian nominee Adrian Wyllie earned a direct pass to the general election, along with nine write-ins and three candidates with no stated party preference.^[16]

Under Article IV of the Florida Constitution, gubernatorial nominees are required to select running mates after the primary, though they are permitted to do so in advance. Customs for selecting running mates vary across Florida's main political parties. For example, Crist broke with party tradition when he announced Annette Taddeo-Goldstein as his lieutenant governor pick prior to the primary. "Because he’s been a life-long Republican, Charlie Crist might be excused for not knowing that Democrats typically don’t choose a running mate until they win the nomination," said Nan Rich, his Democratic primary challenger, in a July campaign press release.^[17]

In January, Scott appointed Carlos Lopez-Cantera as Florida's new lieutenant governor, ending an extended vacancy in the office that began with former-Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll's March 2013 resignation amid a public relations scandal. Lopez-Cantera would also be Scott's new running mate for the 2014 election.

Scott and Crist secured their respective parties' nominations in the August 26 primary election.^[18]

Scott and Cantera-Lopez were elected governor and lieutenant governor on a joint ticket in the general election on November 4, 2014.

Polls

General election
Crist vs. Scott vs. Wyllie

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Major party candidates

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Hypothetical general election match-ups (May 2012 - June 2014)
Crist vs. Scott

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Hypothetical general election match-ups (June 2013 - April 2014)
Rich vs. Scott

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2012

See also: United States Senate elections in Florida, 2012

Blass ran in the 2012 election for the U.S. Senate, representing Florida. Blass sought the nomination on the Independent ticket.^[19] The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run was June 8, 2012. The primary elections were held on August 14, 2012. He was defeated in the general election on November 6, 2012 by incumbent Bill Nelson.^[20]

The University of Virginia's Center for Politics published an article called Sabato's Crystal Ball on March 22, 2012, detailing the eight races in the Senate in 2012 that would decide the political fate of which party would end up with control in 2013.^[21] The Senate seat in Florida was the toss up state ranked second in likelihood of ending up Democratic, behind New Mexico's Senate seat.^[21] Incumbent Bill Nelson's mediocre approval rating was the reasoning behind the "toss-up" classification of the Senate seat, but Nelson was expected to gain Democratic support in time for the election in 2012.^[21] Nelson was also expected to face significant opposition from Connie Mack, U.S. representative from the 14th District, in the general election on November 6, 2012.^[21]

Campaign themes

2022

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2020

Piotr Blass did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.

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