Florida House, District 113
Represents District 113 (Part of Miami-Dade) in the Florida House; votes on state laws and the state budget. Term: 2 years.
Partly verified. Either the November opponent could not be confirmed from available sources, or only a few positions are documented. Confirm the full candidate list on your county sample ballot; unknown positions are shown as such.
How we verified who is on the ballot
Candidate list taken from the Florida Division of Elections, 2026 general election candidate list on 2026-09-18 ; statuses Qualified/Unopposed only. Counties from the Legislature's district listings.
Debates and forums
- No debate or candidate forum has been scheduled in this race (checked Oct. 17, 2026). Checked Vote411's Florida debates-and-forums calendar, the League of Women Voters of Florida newsroom, the county Leagues, chambers of commerce, Tiger Bay clubs and local NAACP branches; every legislative forum they list was held during the primary.
Candidates
Report an error ↗One candidate in this race is a write-in. Florida does not print a qualified write-in candidate's name on the ballot. To vote for one you must write the name on the write-in line for this race; a blank or misspelled line may not be counted.
Bruno Barreiro
Bruno Barreiro, a Miami native born to Cuban immigrant parents, served in the Florida House from 1992 to 1998 and on the Miami-Dade County Commission from 1998 to 2018, including as chairman in 2006. He leads a home-health-care company and other family businesses and narrowly won the August 2026 Republican primary.
Gloria Romero Roses
Gloria Romero Roses, 55, was born in Bogotá and raised in South Florida. She holds an MBA from the University of Miami, has spent about 40 years in real estate, affordable housing and community development, ran an assisted-living facility until 2020 and has served as statewide vice chair of Ruth's List Florida and on …
Paola Vazquez del Mercado
Paola Vázquez del Mercado is a write-in candidate who says she has lived in the district for more than 30 years, worked as a political and credit risk broker at AON Risk and pursued land-banking investments in Edgewater from 2005 to 2016. Her Ballotpedia survey emphasizes public safety, corporate and international fra…
Side-by-side on the major issues
Each row is a statement. The chips show how each candidate's stated positions or record relate to that statement. Expand a row to read the evidence and sources. "No public position found" means we could not find a statement or record on the topic, not that the candidate has none.
| Issue | Bruno Barreiro Republican | Gloria Romero Roses Democratic | Paola Vazquez del Mercado Write-in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taxes & spendingCutting taxes should be a top priority, even if it means less government spending on services. | Leans agree· stated position His platform includes cutting taxes and fees and relieving tolls. | No public position found | No public position found |
| Property taxesFlorida should eliminate or sharply reduce homestead property taxes, even if local governments must cut services or find other revenue. | Strongly agrees· stated position Barreiro supports the 2026 homestead property-tax amendment, saying retirees need relief to stay in their homes. | Strongly disagrees· stated position She opposes the 2026 property-tax amendment, calling it a political stunt and saying eliminating property taxes is not a responsible solution. | No public position found |
| Property insuranceThe state should intervene more directly in the property-insurance market (rate caps, expanding Citizens, stricter insurer regulation) rather than relying mainly on market-based reforms. | No public position found | Leans agree· stated position She pledges to hold insurers accountable, increase rate-setting transparency and invest in resilience and hurricane hardening. | No public position found |
| Housing affordabilityGovernment should do more to make housing affordable (subsidies, zoning changes, rent measures). | Mixed / neutral· stated position He lists affordable housing as a priority but says it must be done properly with infrastructure and opposes the state's Live Local approach. | Strongly agrees· stated position She would speed affordable-housing construction with state financing for developers, public-private partnerships, small-scale infill and a lower income cap for workforce housing. | No public position found |
| ImmigrationImmigration enforcement should be stricter, including large-scale deportation of people in the country illegally. | No public position found | Leans disagree· stated position She has spoken at Miami City Commission meetings against the city's 287(g) agreement with ICE. | No public position found |
| AbortionAbortion should be legal in most cases (Florida's six-week ban should be repealed or loosened). | No public position found | Strongly agrees· stated position She supports restoring access to safe, legal abortion and wrote a 2023 op-ed saying the six-week ban violated her Catholic values. | No public position found |
| GunsGun laws should be stricter (keep the red-flag law and the age-21 purchase rule; expand background checks) rather than looser (permitless or open carry, lower purchase age). | No public position found | No public position found | No public position found |
| Health careGovernment should expand its role in health coverage (expand Medicaid in Florida, extend Affordable Care Act subsidies). | No public position found | Leans agree· stated position She supports expanding access to coverage, preventive care and patient navigators, and an Elder's Trust for seniors. | No public position found |
| Education & school choicePublic money should follow students to private, charter or home schools (universal school vouchers). | No public position found | No public position found | No public position found |
| Environment & waterProtecting water quality, conservation land and climate resilience should take priority even if it slows development or raises costs. | No public position found | Strongly agrees· stated position In a VoteWater endorsement announcement posted Sept. 24, 2026, Romero Roses said development and construction policy directly affects water quality and public access to clean water, that Florida fails to enforce laws protecting its water supply and does not hold polluters accountable, and that she supports nature-based resilience and stronger enforcement. | Leans agree· stated position Vazquez del Mercado listed "Environmental Integrity" among her three key messages, calling for a halt to what she described as corrupt tree cutting and port mismanagement and for an end to corporate pollution. She also said protecting natural resources and preserving the community's environment is central to her campaign. |
| Growth & developmentGrowth and development should be slowed or more tightly regulated (higher impact fees, density limits, stronger local control). | Strongly agrees· stated position He lists stopping overdevelopment as a priority and calls the Live Local Act a knee-jerk reaction that invites development without matching infrastructure. | Leans agree· stated position She supports restoring home rule, reforming Live Local into a grand bargain with communities, and smart growth. | Leans agree· stated position Vazquez del Mercado said Miami has been exploited by sophisticated financial and developer fraud and by shell-company structures, and she called for stricter transparency rules over corporate and offshore ownership to protect homesteads and neighborhoods. |
| MarijuanaRecreational marijuana should be legal for adults. | No public position found | No public position found | No public position found |
| Elections & votingVoting should be made easier (mail voting, drop boxes, restoring voting rights) rather than adding new restrictions. | No public position found | Leans agree· stated position She would fund technology and interstate coordination to make citizenship records affordable and accessible. | No public position found |
| Crime & policingCriminal penalties should be tougher and police funding increased, rather than emphasizing reform and rehabilitation. | Leans agree· stated position His platform lists keeping the community safe among his priorities. | No public position found | Leans agree· stated position Vazquez del Mercado listed eradicating street violence and securing the downtown, Biscayne and Brickell areas among her three key campaign messages, saying the urban core faces a surge in public safety failures. She also called for stronger enforcement against financial fraud and human trafficking. |
| Gender identity lawsFlorida's laws restricting gender-affirming care for minors and classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity should remain in place. | No public position found | No public position found | No public position found |
| Energy & utilitiesGovernment should promote renewable energy and tighten oversight of utility rate increases, even at the expense of fossil-fuel production. | No public position found | No public position found | No public position found |
| Trump administrationI approve of the direction of the Trump administration. | No public position found | No public position found | No public position found |
| VeteransExpanding VA services and veterans' benefits should be a top priority. | No public position found | No public position found | No public position found |
Where they sit on the map
Each candidate is placed by the average of their documented stances. It is a summary of the table above, not an extra judgment.
Bruno BarreiroPaola Vazquez del MercadoHow the axes are computed
Each axis is the average of a candidate's coded stances (+2 to −2) on a fixed set of statements, so it comes straight from the documented positions and nothing else. A candidate needs at least three documented statements on an axis to be placed.
Economic issues (toward "Smaller government (lower taxes, less spending)"): Taxes & spending (agree), Property taxes (agree), Health care (disagree), Housing affordability (disagree), Property insurance (disagree), Energy & utilities (disagree), Social Security & Medicare (disagree), Teacher and staff pay (disagree).
Social & legal issues (toward "Conservative side of the statements"): Immigration (agree), Abortion (disagree), Guns (disagree), Education & school choice (agree), Elections & voting (disagree), Crime & policing (agree), Gender identity laws (agree), Marijuana (disagree), Environment & water (disagree), Trump administration (agree), Library and classroom materials (agree), School safety approach (agree).
| Candidate | Economic issues | Social & legal issues |
|---|---|---|
| Bruno Barreiro | 1.00 (3 statements) | not enough data |
| Gloria Romero Roses | -1.50 (4 statements) | -1.50 (4 statements) |
| Paola Vazquez del Mercado | not enough data | not enough data |
Other issues the candidates have raised
Priorities each candidate has brought up on their own, beyond the major-issue list above.
Bruno Barreiro
- Condo reform and tolls — Barreiro lists collaborating with residents on condo reform, condo safety, toll relief and traffic congestion among his priorities.
Gloria Romero Roses
No additional issues found in public statements as of the last data review.
Paola Vazquez del Mercado
- Financial transparency and anti-fraud enforcement — Vazquez del Mercado said her central goal is stricter transparency over offshore corporate structures and LLCs, which she says are used for cross-border fraud, and she described her background in political and credit risk analysis as the basis for that work.
- Gold and silver legal tender — Asked what policy areas she is passionate about, Vazquez del Mercado cited "financial sovereignty" and implementing Florida's gold and silver legal tender law, saying inflation and central banking are devaluing working families' savings.