Florida House, District 29
Represents District 29 (Part of Volusia) 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
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Webster Barnaby
Born in Birmingham, England, Barnaby lives in Deltona, where he served as a city commissioner before winning a House seat in 2020 (District 27) and District 29 after redistricting in 2022. He describes himself as a business leader with 30 years of community involvement.
Don Kanfer
Kanfer, 75, is a veterinarian who has practiced in DeLand for nearly 40 years and is a Rotarian and community volunteer. He holds an agriculture degree from the University of Nevada, Reno and a DVM from the University of Parma in Italy.
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 | Webster Barnaby Republican | Don Kanfer Democratic |
|---|---|---|
| Taxes & spendingCutting taxes should be a top priority, even if it means less government spending on services. | 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· based on record Voted for HJR 203 (Feb. 19, 2026), which would phase out all non-school property taxes on homesteads, and for HJR 1F (June 2, 2026), which placed the Amendment 3 homestead-exemption increase on the November ballot. He told Vote411 he voted to raise the homestead exemption to cut costs. | Leans disagree· stated position Says taxes will always be needed because local governments provide most day-to-day services, and that insurance, not taxes, is the bigger burden. |
| 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. | Strongly disagrees· stated position Points to his vote for tort reform to cut lawsuits as his answer on insurance costs, a market-oriented approach. | Leans agree· stated position Says premiums must come down in line with actual risk; his site calls for protecting policyholders, penalties for bad-faith claim delays and no-fault reform. |
| Housing affordabilityGovernment should do more to make housing affordable (subsidies, zoning changes, rent measures). | Strongly disagrees· stated position Rejected the premise that affordable housing is lacking, attributing higher home values to strong fiscal policy and free enterprise. | Leans agree· stated position Proposes higher taxes on speculative vacant dwellings and lower purchase fees to help first-time buyers. |
| ImmigrationImmigration enforcement should be stricter, including large-scale deportation of people in the country illegally. | Strongly agrees· based on record Voted for SB 2-C in the February 2025 special session, which created a State Board of Immigration Enforcement, required state and local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and added state penalties for people in the country illegally. His site says he passed legislation to curb illegal immigration. | Leans disagree· stated position Kanfer said he does not agree with current enforcement: immigration laws should be enforced, but current methods ignore constitutional safeguards. |
| AbortionAbortion should be legal in most cases (Florida's six-week ban should be repealed or loosened). | Strongly disagrees· based on record Voted for SB 300 (2023), the Heartbeat Protection Act, which bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. He told Vote411 he will never support abortion. | Leans agree· stated position Supports abortion access in cases of rape, incest, threats to the woman's physical or mental health as determined by her doctors, and non-viable pregnancies. |
| 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). | Strongly disagrees· based on record Voted for HB 543 (2023), which allowed concealed carry without a license; he did not vote on the 2025 and 2026 bills lowering the long-gun purchase age. His site lists defending Second Amendment rights. Sources: Floor Vote for CS/HB 543, Public Safety (permitless conceal… (2023-03-24) · Webster Barnaby for State Representative (campaign site) (2026-09) · Floor Vote for HB 759, Minimum Age for Firearm Purchase or … (2025-03-26) · Floor Vote for HB 133, Minimum Age for Firearm Purchase or … (2026-01-15) | No public position found |
| Health careGovernment should expand its role in health coverage (expand Medicaid in Florida, extend Affordable Care Act subsidies). | Leans disagree· stated position Says insurance subsidies should be limited while the indigent, veterans and seniors are cared for; in 2020 he strongly disagreed that government is responsible for health insurance. | Strongly agrees· stated position Says the short answer is to expand Medicaid, plus a stronger preventive role for county health departments. |
| Education & school choicePublic money should follow students to private, charter or home schools (universal school vouchers). | Strongly agrees· based on record Voted for HB 1 (2023), which opened Florida's private-school scholarship (voucher) programs to every K-12 student regardless of family income. | Leans disagree· stated position His issues page opposes significant state funding of voucher programs and favors public school funding and state scholarships. |
| Environment & waterProtecting water quality, conservation land and climate resilience should take priority even if it slows development or raises costs. | No public position found | Leans agree· stated position Kanfer named overdevelopment and destruction of environmentally sensitive land, plus flooding, as top environmental issues, and said data centers should have to prove no environmental impact and supply their own power. |
| Growth & developmentGrowth and development should be slowed or more tightly regulated (higher impact fees, density limits, stronger local control). | Leans disagree· stated position Says he has always advocated limited local government. | Strongly agrees· stated position Calls the erosion of local control over land use and development by Tallahassee his top concern and would work to restore home rule. |
| MarijuanaRecreational marijuana should be legal for adults. | 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. | Strongly disagrees· stated position Says proof of citizenship must be presented in order to vote, with no exceptions; in 2020 he strongly disagreed with voting without photo ID. | Leans agree· stated position Would have state agencies expedite and provide citizenship documents at little or no cost; his site opposes gerrymandering and supports voting-rights protections. |
| Crime & policingCriminal penalties should be tougher and police funding increased, rather than emphasizing reform and rehabilitation. | No public position found | No public position found |
| Gender identity lawsFlorida's laws restricting gender-affirming care for minors and classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity should remain in place. | Strongly agrees· based on record Voted for SB 254 (2023), the 2023 law barring gender-affirming medical treatment for minors and restricting it for adults. | 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. | Leans disagree· based on record Voted for CS/CS/HB 1645 (2024), the 2024 energy law that removed climate change as a priority of state energy policy, repealed several renewable-energy goals and grant programs, banned offshore wind turbines in state waters and eased regulation of natural-gas pipelines; a vote for it is coded as leaning against promoting renewable energy. | Leans agree· stated position Kanfer supports encouraging home rooftop solar to cut utility bills and says any data centers that are permitted should have to be energy neutral, with no impact on the power grid or utility bills. |
| Trump administrationI approve of the direction of the Trump administration. | 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 |
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.
How 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Webster Barnaby | 1.60 (5 statements) | 2.00 (6 statements) |
| Don Kanfer | -1.20 (5 statements) | -1.00 (5 statements) |
Other issues the candidates have raised
Priorities each candidate has brought up on their own, beyond the major-issue list above.
Webster Barnaby
No additional issues found in public statements as of the last data review.
Don Kanfer
No additional issues found in public statements as of the last data review.