Democrat Donna Deegan was elected mayor of Jacksonville on Tuesday, a surprising result in increasingly Republican Florida. Jacksonville is the largest U.S. city currently governed by an elected Republican mayor, and Deegan's opponent, Daniel Davis, had the support of Gov. Ron DeSantis, an increasingly important figure in national conservative politics.
Deegan, a former television news anchor, will becomes the first female mayor in the history of Jacksonville, a rapidly growing metropolis on Florida's Atlantic coast that is now the largest city in the southeastern U.S. She received about 52 percent of the vote, defeating David by around 9,000 votes, according to The New York Times.
