{"id":64066,"date":"2026-03-24T20:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=64066"},"modified":"2026-03-24T20:40:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:40:27","slug":"hilary-holley-wins-hd-51-special-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/03\/24\/hilary-holley-wins-hd-51-special-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilary Holley wins HD-51 Special Election"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Candidate for District 51 Hilary Holley. (Photo\/campaign website)

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It’s official\u2014Hilary Holley<\/strong> has won the Special Election for Florida House District 51<\/strong>.<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The results from today, March 24, 2026, show Holley (a Republican) defeating her Democratic opponent, Edwin P\u00e9rez, to represent the northern Polk County district.<\/sup> She will fill the seat vacated by Josie Tomkow, who resigned to pursue a state Senate seat.<\/sup>+1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key Details of the Victory:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  • District:<\/strong> HD-51 (covers Auburndale, Haines City, Davenport, and Polk City).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Background:<\/strong> Holley is the Executive Director of the Florida FFA Foundation and ran on a platform focused on agricultural preservation, managing rapid local growth, and economic affordability.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Significance:<\/strong> Her win maintains Republican control of this solid red district, which has historically leaned heavily toward the GOP.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    While there is a prominent political strategist in Georgia also named Hillary Holley<\/strong> (Executive Director of Care in Action), today\u2019s win specifically belongs to the Florida Republican candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It’s official\u2014Hilary Holley has won the Special Election for Florida House District 51. The results from today, March 24, 2026, show Holley (a Republican) defeating her Democratic opponent, Edwin P\u00e9rez,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"12","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDNcL1VudGl0bGVkLWRlc2lnbi0yMDI2LTAyLTAyVDEzMzc1OC40MzMtNzY4eDUxMi0xLndlYnA_Zml0PTc2OCUyQzUxMiZzc2w9MSIsInR4dCI6IkhpbGFyeSBIb2xsZXkgd2lucyBIRC01MSBTcGVjaWFsIEVsZWN0aW9uIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJoaWdod2F5IiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.NubCYdJjkdcovZV67ZE9PYi_6lxsWAKxMQHfZTGqFC4MQ"},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[14181],"class_list":["post-64066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-hilary-holley-wins-hd-51-special-election"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64068,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64066\/revisions\/64068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}