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Gary Pruitt
Gary Pruitt (Democratic Party) ran for election for Hillsborough County Sheriff in Florida. Pruitt was disqualified from the Democratic primary scheduled on August 20, 2024.
Elections
2024
See also: Municipal elections in Hillsborough County, Florida (2024)
General election
The general election was canceled. Chad Chronister (R) won without appearing on the ballot.
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Pruitt in this election.
2023
See also: City elections in Tampa, Florida (2023)
General runoff election
General runoff election for Tampa City Council District 2 At-Large
Incumbent Guido Maniscalco defeated Robin Lockett in the general runoff election for Tampa City Council District 2 At-Large on April 25, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Guido Maniscalco (Nonpartisan) | 61.9 | 15,764 |
| Robin Lockett (Nonpartisan) | 38.1 | 9,685 | ||
| Total votes: 25,449 | |||
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General election
General election for Tampa City Council District 2 At-Large
Incumbent Guido Maniscalco and Robin Lockett advanced to a runoff. They defeated Mike Suarez and Michael Derewenko in the general election for Tampa City Council District 2 At-Large on March 7, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Guido Maniscalco (Nonpartisan) | 47.0 | 14,458 |
| ✔ | Robin Lockett (Nonpartisan) | 24.8 | 7,624 | |
 | Mike Suarez (Nonpartisan) | 21.5 | 6,631 | |
| Michael Derewenko (Nonpartisan) | 6.7 | 2,066 | ||
| Total votes: 30,779 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Kevin Hughes (Nonpartisan)
- Gary Pruitt (Nonpartisan)
2020
See also: Municipal elections in Hillsborough County, Florida (2020)
General election
General election for Hillsborough County Sheriff
Incumbent Chad Chronister defeated Gary Pruitt and Ron McMullen in the general election for Hillsborough County Sheriff on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Chad Chronister (R) | 54.8 | 380,977 | |
| Gary Pruitt (D) | 35.9 | 249,382 | ||
| Ron McMullen (Independent) | 9.3 | 64,850 | ||
| Total votes: 695,209 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Gary Pruitt advanced from the Democratic primary for Hillsborough County Sheriff.
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Hillsborough County Sheriff
Incumbent Chad Chronister defeated Charles Boswell in the Republican primary for Hillsborough County Sheriff on August 18, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Chad Chronister | 62.4 | 54,864 | |
| Charles Boswell | 37.6 | 33,079 | ||
| Total votes: 87,943 | |||
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2018
General election
Special general election for Hillsborough County Sheriff
Incumbent Chad Chronister defeated Gary Pruitt in the special general election for Hillsborough County Sheriff on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Chad Chronister (R) | 54.8 | 280,849 | |
| Gary Pruitt (D) | 45.2 | 231,418 | ||
| Total votes: 512,267 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Gary Pruitt did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2023
Gary Pruitt did not complete Ballotpedia's 2023 Candidate Connection survey.
2020
Gary Pruitt completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Pruitt's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Gary is a determined professional who believes that fighting a corrupt system isn't easy. He ran for Sheriff in 2018 and received over 45% of the vote (231,418 votes) barely losing to the current millionaire sheriff, who spent over $1,000,000 to plaster his name all over the county's equipment on taxpayers' time and money.
As your next Sheriff, you will know Gary based on the quality of his work, not by seeing his name all over county buildings and vehicles.
Gary's pledge is to bring justice and integrity to the Sheriff's Office, for which it's long overdue. Gary's core values of Community, Transparency, and Integrity are based on his beliefs of doing what's right by serving others.
Gary is accessible, straightforward, and excited to serve you as your next Sheriff!- "DIVERSITY" For the Sheriff's Office to serve all people, it must be inclusive of all people who make up Hillsborough County -- it must be diverse! Diversity should not be a political move, such as we have seen with the current Sheriff. It should be a conscious decision to do what's right -- not just at election time.
- "TRANSPARENCY" The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has admittedly been openly turning over the office since 1964. They do this to confuse the voter into thinking they are watching out for the citizen, when what they are actually doing is watching out for their own agenda.
- "BODY CAMERAS and IN-CAR VIDEO" In this day and age, I am shocked that the Sheriff's Office doesn't have body camera and in-car video for their deputies. The Sheriff says that "it's an invasion of privacy" for the deputies, but what he means is it's easier to defend words instead of rock solid proof of video.
Please understand this is not a citizen review committee -- there are over a million people in Hillsborough County to tell me where I failed. This would instead be a committee that would help me review and develop policies for the office that affect the citizens of this county.
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See also
2024 Elections
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