The city and county governments are consolidated, so it's the entire county.
Regardless, the Democrat is reportedly a DINO, so probably not much for Democrats to get excited about.
I strongly agree here. According to the
official election night counts, Alvin Brown the nominal Dem (but fiscally conservative and business-friendly) leads Mike Hogan, the GOP Duval County Tax Collector by 603 votes, pending the tally on absentee and provisional votes; and a possible recount. Apparently, an unusual local dynamic is in play here, as those who voted for the third-place finisher in March, Audrey Moran (a moderate Republican) largely vote for Brown tonight.
Meanwhile, Hogan seems to take his party affiliation and his first-place finish in March for granted, and is content to cater just to his Tea Party base plus some public union supporters, and no further. On the other hand, Brown worked somewhat harder to reach out more diverse groups of voters. Even the usually conservative Florida Times-Union (Arguably the most conservative major Florida daily paper) lamented Hogan's lack of policy specifics and avoidance of debates in its endorsement of Brown. Finally, the business establishment there seems to desert Hogan in droves due to his hard-right campaign. All these local dynamics may potentially lead to Hogan's eventual narrow defeat in a race that should be a shoo-in for most GOP candidates.
