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Florida › Florida State Senate · November 3, 2026 · Updated Oct 16, 2026
Florida State Senate District 38
Flip risk: Republican-held seat, a toss-up (40% chance it changes parties).
A toss-up: each side wins about half the simulations.
Lamondin (D)
40%
chance of winning
Calatayud (R)
60%
- Average margin
- R+1.8
- 80% of outcomes
- R+11 to D+8
- Partisan lean
- R+6
- Polls
- 2in our database
Flip risk: Republican-held seat, a toss-up (41% chance it changes parties).
A toss-up: each side wins about half the simulations.
Lamondin (D)
41%
chance of winning
Calatayud (R)
59%
- Average margin
- R+1.8
- 80% of outcomes
- R+13 to D+9
- Partisan lean
- R+6
- Polls
- 2in our database
How this race is decided
Unopposed races skip the ballot
A candidate with no opponent is declared elected and the race does not appear on the ballot, so some seats have no vote totals.
Range of outcomes
Final margin across our simulations; the white dashes mark the middle 80%.
The candidates
Democratic
Richard Lamondin
RepublicanIncumbent
Alexis Calatayud
- Experience
- State legislature
Independent
Jeffrey Solomon
What goes into the forecast
Every ingredient's estimate of the final margin.
- National environment
- D+9.5Election Day forecast
- Florida state offices
- −1.1Polls for governor, statewide and legislative races, without this race · details
- Environment here
- D+8.5Used by the fundamentals
- Swing reaching this office
- 58%Of a shift in the environment, from past legislative races since 2016
- Southeast adjustment
- −1.8How legislative races in the region have run against lean and environment lately
Each estimate is a margin before national and statewide uncertainty is simulated. Horizon blends polls, fundamentals and a little of the similar-places estimate, weighting each by how precise it is; Pulse uses polls and similar places only.
Fundamentals inputs
| Incumbency (+1 D, −1 R) | -1 |
| Fundraising edge (log ratio of individual money) | -0.63 |
| Elected-experience edge | -0.67 |
| First-term incumbent | 0 |
| Seat's last result vs. expectation | -0.04 |
| Incumbent's last result vs. expectation | -0.04 |
Polls
All 2 polls
| Pollster | Dates | Sample | Lamondin | Calatayud | Margin | Adjusted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Impact ResearchD-sponsored | Oct 5–Oct 8 | 400 LV | 40 | 40 | Even | R+1.5 |
| Impact ResearchD-sponsored | Jul 1–Jul 31 | — V | 36 | 43 | R+7 | R+9.2 |
Adjusted: after correcting for the pollster's house effect, registered vs. likely voters, and movement in the national environment since the poll; shown for the polls carrying the most weight in today's average. Larger dots in the chart carry the most weight. Last poll: Oct 8, 2026.
The district
Lean R+6: how much more Democratic or Republican than the nation it votes for president.
Presidential vote
Precinct results re-aggregated to the current district lines.
Who lives here
- Population
- 560,664
- People per km²
- 632
- Adults with a B.A.+
- 40%
- White, no degree
- 7%of adults
- White 18%
- Hispanic 66%
- Black 11%
- Asian 2%
- Other / multiracial 3%
American Community Survey 2020–2024, aggregated from census tracts.
Past results
Results in the same-numbered district; earlier elections may have used different lines.
2024 President Vote in this district
255,370 two-party votes · R+10.4 · R+8.9 vs. the nation✓ Donald Trump (R)55.2%
Kamala Harris (D)44.8%
2022
172,366 votes · R+8.8✓ Alexis Maria Calatayud (R)54.4%
Janelle Perez (D)45.6%
2020 President Vote in this district
264,853 two-party votes · D+7.3 · D+2.7 vs. the nation✓ Joe Biden (D)53.6%
Donald Trump (R)46.4%
2016 Earlier district lines
156,759 votes · Uncontested by the other party✓ Daphne Campbell (D)75.2%
Phillip J Brutus (I)24.8%
2016 President Vote in this district
218,849 two-party votes · D+24.7 · D+22.5 vs. the nation✓ Hillary Clinton (D)62.4%
Donald Trump (R)37.6%