Campaign finance · Context
How the development and real-estate figure works
Public filings show where campaign money comes from. Amounts and occupations are shown as filed.
Sources checked October 12, 2026 · Page updated October 20, 2026 · Campaign data through October 2, 2026
Contribution limits and reporting rules
Florida law permits contributions within its limits and reporting rules. For elections conducted on less than a countywide basis, the general limit is $1,000 from a person or political committee to a candidate per election. Primary and general elections count separately when the candidate is opposed. Party exceptions and the candidate’s own contributions have separate treatment.
Source: Florida Statutes 106.08 · 2026 version, 106.08(1)(a)3, (b) and (c).
Campaign reports are open to public inspection. They generally list each contributor’s name, address, amount, date and occupation; corporations report their principal business. Occupation or business information is not required for contributions of $100 or less, or certain reported relative contributions. This site shows mailing cities and excludes residential street addresses.
Source: Florida Statutes 106.07 · 2026 version, 106.07(2)(a)1 and (4)(a)1.
Why the filings are public
Florida law makes campaign filings public so residents can see who funds local campaigns.
Source: Florida Statutes 106.07 · 2026 version, 106.07(2)(a)1 and (4)(a)1. Public access is specified in 106.07(2)(a)1.
What it doesn’t mean
The development and real-estate figure describes the monetary entries whose filed occupation matches the same phrase list for every candidate (developers, homebuilders, and real-estate firms and agents), plus donors classified from a public license/business record matching the filed name and address, which their rows note. It does not measure a donor’s employer, ownership, motives or a candidate’s decisions. Occupations not provided and blank amounts are counted separately.
Donor rows show names, cities and occupations as filed, with filing citations. How we classify donors →
About this data
Campaign money views use active available reports ending by October 2, 2026. Itemized monetary contributions include candidate money and exclude in-kind support. Unitemized cover differences remain separate. The figure uses the occupation written in the filing; the only other route is a public license/business record that matches the donor’s filed name and complete filed address under the written rule on the methods page. Other outside research never changes it.
Statute versions are identified next to each claim. No campaign names or candidate-specific conclusions appear in this explainer. Classification and accounting methods →