Byron Donalds

U.S. Representative, FL-19

FL House · Republican

Byron Lowell Donalds (born October 28, 1978) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 19th congressional district since 2021. His congressional district includes much of Southwest Florida. From 2016 to 2020, he served in the Florida House of Representatives. A member of the Republican Party, Donalds is its nominee in the 2026 Florida gubernatorial election. Born and raised in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Donalds attended Florida A&M University before earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in finance and marketing from Florida State University in 2002. Before entering politics, he worked in the finance, insurance, and banking industries. Situated in the conservative or MAGA wing of the Republican Party, Donalds was a member of the Tea Party movement. Donalds was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2016, representing the 80th district for two terms before being elected to Congress in 2020. He was reelected in 2022 and 2024. During his second congressional term, he was a nominee for Speaker of the House in the roll-call votes of January 2023 and October 2023. Donalds became the Republican nominee for governor of Florida in August 2026, and will face Democratic nominee David Jolly in the general election. If elected, Donalds would be Florida's first Jamaican-Panamanian American governor and the first Jamaican-Panamanian American governor elected in the Deep South.

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Voting Summary

Votes recorded: 31
Ballots cast: 28
Participation: 90.3%
Yea / Nay: 20 / 8

Yea20

Nay8

Absent3

Abstain0

31 total ballots recorded.

Participation counts yea and nay ballots votes where a position was taken as a share of all roll calls on file.

Voting Record

31 votes

Bill	Chamber	Roll call	Vote
Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act	house	4200	Nay
United States-Taiwan Tax Agreement Authorization Act United States-Taiwan Expedited Double-Tax Relief Act	house	—	Yea
Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025	house	4196	Yea
Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025	house	4195	Nay
Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act	house	4183	Yea
Laken Riley Act	house	4198

Bill title and chamber are the only bill details held locally for these votes. Bill number, status, summary and sponsor are not part of this dataset see Bills for the fuller bill record. “Roll call” is the upstream roll-call identifier, not a date; no vote date is recorded in this dataset.