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Contents 1 Next election: 2010 2 Last election: 2004 3 Florida congressional districts and the incumbent's district offices 4 Articles and resources 4.1 See also 4.2 External resources 4.3 External articles

Next election: 2010

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Race status

Incumbent:	Mel Martinez
Incumbent running?	No
Primary challenge?	N/a (open seat).

Candidates

Name	Party	Status	Reference URL	Reference date	Reference note
Mel Martinez	Republican	Out	Source	May 4, 2009	Has announced he will not seek re-election.
Charlie Crist	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Source	May 12, 2009
Connie Mack	Republican	Out	Source	April 2, 2009
Marco Rubio	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Source	May 5, 2009
Allen Boyd	Democratic	Out	Source	January 28, 2009
Bill McCollum	Republican	Out	Source	January 28, 2009
Kendrick Meek	Democratic	Confirmed candidate	Source	January 28, 2009
Dan Gelber	Democratic	Out	Source	May 30, 2009	Will run for State Attorney General
Alex Sink	Democratic	Out	Source	May 14, 2009	Will run for Governor
Jeb Bush	Republican	Out	Source	January 6, 2009
Robert Smith	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Source	June 9, 2009
Kevin Burns	Democratic	Confirmed candidate	[Florida Division of Elections Source]	May 20, 2009	Mayor of North Miami
George LeMieux	Republican	Unconfirmed incumbent	(source needed)		Appointed as interim placeholder

(Candidate classification criteria)

Results

Primary winners:	TBD
General election winner:	TBD

Last election: 2004

Incumbent: Bob Graham

Candidates

Name	Party	Status	Reference URL	Reference date	Reference note
Mel Martinez	Republican	Confirmed candidate	(source needed)
Betty Castor	Democratic	Confirmed candidate	(source needed)

(Candidate classification criteria)

Results

Primary winners:	Mel Martinez, Betty Castor
General election winner:	Mel Martinez

Florida congressional districts and the incumbent's district offices

Mel Martinez's district offices
Suite 148, 800 Douglas Road, Coral Gables, FL 33134 305-444-8332 (Phone) (Fax) Suite 475, 315 East Robinson Street, Orlando, FL 32801 407-254-2573 (Phone) (Fax)

Articles and resources

See also

• Index for all the Florida congressional districts and candidates.
• The full U.S. Senate elections report.
• The RaceTracker homepage.

External resources

Blogs	Other Wiki sites
Swing State Project: Swing State Project: http://www.swingstateproject.com/tag.do?tag=FL-Sen Daily Kos: http://www.dailykos.com/tag/FL-Sen MyDD: http://www.mydd.com/tag/FL-Sen The Next Right: http://www.thenextright.com/category/blog-tags/FL-Sen OpenLeft: http://www.openleft.com/tag.do?tag=FL-Sen RedState: http://www.redstate.com/tags/tag/FL-Sen	dKosopedia: http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/FL-Sen Left.Wikia: http://left.wikia.com/wiki/FL-Sen

External articles

Technorati search for "FL-Sen"	SwingStateProject posts on "FL-Sen"

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