Pensacola mayoral primary enters final stretch before August 18 vote

Pensacola’s six-candidate mayoral contest is entering its final stretch before the nonpartisan primary on August 18, 2026. The mayor is elected citywide, or at large, and voters have early-voting and vote-by-mail options before Election Day.

The qualified candidates listed by the Escambia County Supervisor of Elections are Jasmine Brown, Ann Hill, Darcy “D.C.” Reeves, Eric Shorter, Alicia Trawick and Jermaine J. Williams.

When and where to vote early

Early voting for the August 18 election runs August 8 through August 15, from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The Pensacola locations listed by the Supervisor of Elections are:

• Escambia County Supervisor of Elections Office, 213 Palafox Place, second floor
• Main Library, 239 Spring Street
• Asbury Place, 750 College Blvd.
• Southwest Library, 12248 Gulf Beach Highway
• Bellview Library, 6425 Mobile Highway
• Brownsville Community Center, 3200 W. De Soto Street
• UWF Center for Fine and Performing Arts, Building 82, 11000 University Parkway

The county also lists early-voting sites outside Pensacola at the Molino Community Center in Molino, Escambia County Extension Services in Cantonment and the Billy G. Ward Century Courthouse in Century. Voters should verify their precinct-specific ballot information before voting.

Vote-by-mail deadlines

All qualified voters may vote by mail. For the August 18 election, a request for a ballot to be mailed must be submitted by 5 p.m. Thursday, August 6.

Completed vote-by-mail ballots must be received by the Supervisor of Elections’ office no later than 7 p.m. Tuesday, August 18. During early voting, voters may return a ballot to the Supervisor of Elections’ office or to any early-voting location during voting hours.

A vote-by-mail ballot should not be taken to a polling place on Election Day for delivery. A voter who wants to vote in person may bring the ballot to the polls to cancel it and vote in person instead, whether or not the ballot has been marked.

If a returned ballot is rejected because of a missing signature or a signature that does not match the signature on file, the voter may submit a cure affidavit and required identification. The cure materials must be returned by 5 p.m. Thursday, August 20, the second day after the election.

What the campaign-finance database shows

The county’s campaign-finance database lists reported monetary contributions, in-kind contributions and total expenditures for each candidate. The figures below are a snapshot of the database available for this article; they are not rankings, measures of momentum or predictions about the result.

• Jasmine Brown: $11,086.25 in monetary contributions, $0 in-kind and $9,840.02 in expenditures.
• Ann Hill: $7,648.24 in monetary contributions, $12,859.06 in-kind and $5,748.07 in expenditures.
• Darcy “D.C.” Reeves: $121,305 in monetary contributions, $2,800 in-kind and $72,729.93 in expenditures.
• Eric Shorter: $21,495.74 in monetary contributions, $0 in-kind and $15,760.66 in expenditures.
• Alicia Trawick: $28,619 in monetary contributions, $4,512.21 in-kind and $21,445.90 in expenditures.
• Jermaine J. Williams: $15,379 in monetary contributions, $6,000 in-kind and $14,224.90 in expenditures.

The database says the reported information is generated by and is the sole responsibility of each reporting entity. Newly filed reports may change these totals before the election.

How the primary and runoff work

The Pensacola City Charter requires nominations and elections for mayor and City Council to be conducted on a nonpartisan basis. The mayor is elected at large, and the candidate who receives a majority of the votes for the office is elected.

For a contest with three or more candidates, the charter places the city election on the date of the state and county primary election. If no candidate receives a majority, the two candidates receiving the greatest number of votes advance to a runoff on the date of the general election. For 2026, that runoff date is November 3, 2026.

For Pensacola voters, the immediate deadlines are August 6 to request a mailed ballot, August 8-15 for early voting, and August 18 for Election Day voting and receipt of vote-by-mail ballots.

Sources

• Escambia County Candidate Reports
• Escambia County Supervisor of Elections: Early Voting Locations
• City of Pensacola Charter

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