© St. Petersburg Times, published September 5, 2002
The following candidates have been elected without opposition:
Jim Davis, D-Tampa
Adam Putnam, R-Bartow
Tom Gallagher, R
Tom Lee, R-Brandon
Victor Crist, R-Tampa
Lesley "Les" Miller Jr., D-Tampa
Johnnie B. Byrd Jr., R-Plant City
Candy Olson (nonpartisan)
Hugh M. Gramling (nonpartisan)
Richard Van Epps (nonpartisan)
Aaron V. Granger (nonpartisan)
Douglas C. Gilmore (nonpartisan)
Kerri McDougald (nonpartisan)
Rhonda Ort (nonpartisan)
Richard B. Little Jr. (nonpartisan)
Eugene R. Field (nonpartisan)
Patricia B. Maney (nonpartisan)
Mark S. Hankins (nonpartisan)
Steven W. Grove (nonpartisan)
Mark J. Ragusa (nonpartisan)
GROUP 1: Frank A. Gomez
GROUP 2: Barbara Fleischer
GROUP 4: Marva L. Crenshaw
GROUP 5: Dan Perry
GROUP 8: James D. Arnold
GROUP 9: Gregory P. Holder
GROUP 10: Rex M. Barbas
GROUP 11: Ralph Stoddard
GROUP 12: Charlene Honeywell
GROUP 13: Jack Espinosa Jr.
GROUP 14: Robert J. Simms
GROUP 15: Claudia Isom
GROUP 18: Chet A. Tharpe
GROUP 19: Manuel Menendez Jr.
GROUP 20: Sam Pendino
GROUP 21: J. Rogers Padgett
GROUP 27: Vivian C. Maye
GROUP 28: William P. Levens
GROUP 29: Wayne S. Timmerman
GROUP 31: Richard A. Nielsen
GROUP 33: Katherine G. Essrig
GROUP 34: James M. Barton
GROUP 35: Herbert J. Baumann Jr.
GROUP 8: Gaston Fernandez
GROUP 14: Mark R. Wolfe