Rishi Bagga
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Rishi Bagga (Democratic Party) ran in a special election to the Florida House of Representatives to represent District 35. He lost in the special Democratic primary on November 7, 2023.
Biography
Rishi Bagga was born in Toronto. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Central Florida in 2003, a law degree from the American University Washington College of Law in 2006, and a graduate law degree from the American University Washington College of Law in 2010. His career experience includes working as an attorney and small business owner.[1]
Elections
2023
See also: Florida state legislative special elections, 2024
General election
Special general election for Florida House of Representatives District 35
Tom Keen defeated Erika Booth in the special general election for Florida House of Representatives District 35 on January 16, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Tom Keen (D)  | 51.3 | 11,392 |
 | Erika Booth (R) | 48.7 | 10,803 | |
| Total votes: 22,195 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Special Democratic primary for Florida House of Representatives District 35
Tom Keen defeated Rishi Bagga and Marucci Guzman in the special Democratic primary for Florida House of Representatives District 35 on November 7, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tom Keen | 35.8 | 2,419 |
 | Rishi Bagga | 33.7 | 2,278 | |
 | Marucci Guzman | 30.4 | 2,053 | |
| Total votes: 6,750 | |||
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Republican primary election
Special Republican primary for Florida House of Representatives District 35
Erika Booth defeated Scotty Moore and Kenneth Davenport in the special Republican primary for Florida House of Representatives District 35 on November 7, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Erika Booth | 49.7 | 3,710 |
 | Scotty Moore | 33.6 | 2,507 | |
 | Kenneth Davenport | 16.8 | 1,253 | |
| Total votes: 7,470 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Demetries Grimes (R)
Campaign finance
Endorsements
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Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Bagga in this election.
2022
See also: Florida House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Florida House of Representatives District 35
Incumbent Fred Hawkins defeated Rishi Bagga in the general election for Florida House of Representatives District 35 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Fred Hawkins (R) | 55.4 | 32,858 |
| Rishi Bagga (D) | 44.6 | 26,447 | |
| Total votes: 59,305 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Florida House of Representatives District 35
Rishi Bagga defeated Tom Keen and Tahitiana Munoz-Chaffin in the Democratic primary for Florida House of Representatives District 35 on August 23, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Rishi Bagga | 38.7 | 4,060 |
| Tom Keen | 38.1 | 4,003 | |
 | Tahitiana Munoz-Chaffin | 23.2 | 2,432 | |
| Total votes: 10,495 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Florida House of Representatives District 35
Incumbent Fred Hawkins defeated Kenneth Davenport and Dianna Liebnitzky in the Republican primary for Florida House of Representatives District 35 on August 23, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Fred Hawkins | 52.2 | 5,733 |
| Kenneth Davenport | 32.7 | 3,589 | |
 | Dianna Liebnitzky | 15.1 | 1,654 | |
| Total votes: 10,976 | |||
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Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Rishi Bagga did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2022
Rishi Bagga completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Bagga's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Rishi Bagga is an attorney, former prosecutor, and successful East Orlando small business owner who believes in fairness, justice, and common sense solutions.
Rishi was born in Toronto, Canada where his dad worked as a taxicab driver and his mom as a bank assistant after they both left India for a better future. His family eventually purchased a small 26-room motel which his parents ran together and lived in. When he was 10 years old, his family came to Orlando, Florida on vacation; they eventually bought a struggling hotel in the city where Rishi and his family lived and worked at until he was 17 years old.
Rishi attended Orange County Public Schools and UCF and eventually became a lawyer. After law school, Rishi became a prosecutor at the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office, where he prosecuted domestic violence crimes, juvenile offenses, and serious felony cases. Once he left the state, he has represented small and large businesses in a variety of civil matters and has been a leader and advocate at the national level.
In addition to his legal work, Rishi and his family still own and operate a successful family-owned hotel business in the East Orlando/Alafaya area. He sits on numerous local boards and associations in the Orlando area and has been recognized as for his service and successes.
Rishi lives in the Stoneybrook East neighborhood in the East Orlando/Alafaya area with his wife Shelly and their 22-month-old son, Gyan.
- A Smarter Florida - Improving public education by funding teachers and schools; foster an open environment in schools and reversing “culture war” bans on education.
- A Safer Florida - Improving public safety by encouraging transparent policing, common sense gun safety regulation, and treatment and rehabilitation instead of overincarceration.
- A Healthier Florida - Improving the health of Floridians by working to expand Medicaid immediately, ensuring access to affordable, high quality reproductive healthcare including abortion, promoting public health by encouraging science-based policymaking.
I am an attorney and small business owner. As a former prosecutor, I worked hard to fight for victims of domestic violence and successfully prosecuted hundreds of criminal cases. I have fought hard to represent my clients as an attorney. As a small business owner and hotelier, I understand the importance of growing Florida’s economy while making sure that everyone has a fair chance to succeed.
If elected, I would use my experience to bring informed, practical leadership to Tallahassee to advocate for a stronger public school system, higher pay for Florida’s teachers, better health policy, common sense public safety legislation, and prosperity for all Floridians.
I grew up in a family-owned and operated motel business. My earliest memories are of helping my parents clean rooms in our family hotel by vacuuming and stocking bathrooms with toilet paper. I spend all of high school working at our family hospitality business; I installed and serviced all of our hotel systems, including our hotel room electronic locks, front desk computer systems, and other electronics. In some respects, I have never left this job; my family still owns and operates a hotel business and, in addition to being an owner and administrator, I continue to assist with maintenance of facilities and systems.
Other than the family business, I took an additional job at SeaWorld of Florida where I was an intern in the Human Resources department. I worked there through high school and halfway through college.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 8, 2022
