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State and federal results: Kat Cammack and Danielle Hawk win Florida's 3rd Congressional District primaries

State Representative - District 22

Two Democrats filed to run against Republican incumbent Chuck Clemons. The race was too close to call as of 10:30 p.m. Tuesday.

NameVotesPercentageContributionsExpenses
Olysha Magruder8,23448.37%$50,417.83$47,249.96
Brandon Peters8,79051.63%$114,940.62$89,152.03

Clemons easily handled a primary challenge.

NameVotesPercentageContributionsExpenses
Ty Appiah4,69528.5%$14,721.28$13,164.75
Chuck Clemons11,75371.5%$280,494.85$74,837.62

U.S. House 3rd District

NameVotesPercentageContributionsExpenses
Danielle Hawk33,72567.69%$31,892.04$15,897.32
Tom Wells16,09532.3%$27,553.15$26,727.49

The Associated Press called the Republican primary race for incumbent Kat Cammack about 20 minutes after polls closed. A call in favor of Democrat Danielle Hawk followed about 90 minutes later.

NameVotesPercentageContributionsExpenses
Kat Cammack59,91785%$1,861,162.17$1,298,797.10
Justin Waters10,60915%$15,619$14,484.66

A third Republican candidate, Manuel P. Asensio, withdrew from the race on Monday, nullifying any votes cast for him. He said the district's Republican party officials had "silenced and canceled" him.

Florida's new boundaries for U.S. House District 3 extend from south of Ocala to the Georgia state line and include Alachua County.

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