2000 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida

At the time, Florida had twenty-three seats in the House, apportioned according to the 1990 United States census.

[2] This was the only seat tantamount to the election in Florida, because the winner of the Republican primary would face no Democratic opposition.

[1] In the general election on November 7, 2000, Scarborough received only token opposition from four write-in candidates - Dave Blue, Mark Coutu, Fred Hoole, and Dudley Wiley.

[3] General election results As in District 2, neither incumbent Corrine Brown (D) or Jennifer Carroll (R) faced opposition in their respective primaries.

On election day, Brown defeated future-Lieutenant Governor Carroll and Sumner by comfortable margin, receiving 57.6% of the vote in this left-leaning district.

[3] General election results Incumbent Tillie K. Fowler (R) declined to run for re-election in 2000, leaving an open seat.

The two candidates in the Republican primary were CEO and President of America's Choice Title Company Dan Quiggle and Ander Crenshaw, President of the Florida Senate and son-in law of former Governor of Claude R. Kirk, Jr. Crenshaw easily defeated Quiggle and received over two-thirds of the votes.

[4] In addition, independent Deborah K. Pueschel and write-in candidate Vince W. Ray entered the race.

[4] However, the Republican primary featured a tough contest between Pete Enwall and Jim King, both of whom were businessmen from Gainesville.

[8] The term limits issue failed to gain traction, as Stearns was re-elected almost unanimously, winning approximately 99.9% of the votes.

[11] However, Perez withdrew from the race in December, around the time that then-State Senator Daniel Webster declined to run.

Instead, Reform Party member Jon Duffey and write-in candidate Marie Ospina entered the race.