Higgins and Gonzalez advance to Miami mayor runoff after 13-candidate race

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Democratic County Commissioner Eileen Higgins and Republican candidate Emilio González, backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis , will advance to a Dec. 9 runoff to find out Miami’s subsequent mayor after no candidate obtained greater than 50% of the vote.

The highest two candidates emerged from a crowded discipline of 13 and can face off to succeed term-limited Republican Mayor Francis Suarez.

If no candidate receives 50% or extra of the votes, the highest two candidates should compete in a runoff within the race for mayor.

Higgins, the Miami-Dade County commissioner elected in 2018, represents elements of Miami Seaside, Downtown, Brickell, Coral Manner, Little Havana and West Flagler, in response to the county’s web site.

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Miami Democrat Higgins is a former engineer, advertising and marketing govt and Peace Corps Belize nation director, a place she accepted in 2006. She later labored as a International Service Officer with the U.S. State Division.

"There’s going to be no drama," Higgins mentioned throughout her closing assertion at a mayoral debate Oct. 16. "There’s going to be no corruption. There’s going to be no yelling. It’s simply me, daily, going to work in your behalf to get issues finished — the stuff you’ve advised me you wish to see occur on this metropolis. The town that you just love. The town that I like. The town that must be the very best place on earth."

Mayoral candidate Eileen Higgins waves and thanks her workers and supporters as she advances to a runoff throughout her election watch celebration on the Yotel in downtown Miami on Election Day, Nov. 4, 2025. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald/Tribune Information Service through Getty Photographs)

She campaigned on affordability, restoring belief in Miami City Hall "by chopping crimson tape that stops householders and small companies from transferring ahead," funding police and first responders, bettering transportation, and defending the atmosphere, in response to her marketing campaign's web site.

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An aerial view exhibits the downtown Miami property on Biscayne Boulevard subsequent to the Freedom Tower that has been earmarked for former President Donald Trump’s future presidential library. (Joe Raedle/Getty Photographs)

President Donald Trump , who is also a Florida resident, didn't endorse a candidate.

Though the mayoral race didn’t draw the identical nationwide consideration as New York or gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, it was marked by previous scandals and political jabs from each Democratic and Republican candidates. In September, a Florida judge blocked town's plan to delay the November election to 2026 with out voter approval, following a lawsuit by mayoral candidate and former Metropolis Supervisor Gonzalez.

Gonzalez, the main Republican contender, was endorsed by DeSantis and Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott. He beforehand served as a bilingual surrogate for Trump’s presidential marketing campaign, labored on the president's transition staff and was later named a senior fellow on the America First Coverage Institute.

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Metropolis of Miami mayoral candidate Emilio González speaks throughout a press convention exterior his Miami dwelling July 16, 2025. (Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune Information Service through Getty Photographs)

He campaigned on modernizing metropolis providers, chopping property taxes, easing rules for small companies, boosting police presence and decreasing authorities spending, in response to his marketing campaign's web site.

He mentioned on the mayoral debate Oct. 16, "We want reform and we want reform unhealthy," after a lack of public belief in native authorities.

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"Our municipal authorities has failed our residents," he mentioned on the debate. "That is why we're right here, all of us. We have allow them to down. We have left them down and so they do not belief us."

"Public service and being mayor must be vocational," he added. "It is not about getting cash, it is not about making my ego larger, it is not about setting me up for one more workplace or clickbait or this or that. It is vocational, you have to wish to do it."

The 2025 Miami mayoral race additionally included former Miami Mayors Joe Carollo and Xavier Suarez, the daddy of present Mayor Francis Suarez, and Alex Díaz de la Portilla, Christian Cevallos, June Savage, Alyssa Crocker, Elijah John Bowdre, Ken Russell, Laura Anderson, Michael Hepburn and legal professional Kenneth James DeSantis, who isn't associated to Gov. Ron DeSantis.