Steve Miller Wins Daytona Beach Zone 3 Seat

Miller narrowly defeated incumbent Quanita May, winning the commission seat by 98 votes in the general election.

Updated on Nov. 5, 2026 in Elections

Steve Miller Wins Daytona Beach Zone 3 Seat

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Steve Miller defeated Quanita May for the Daytona Beach City Commission Zone 3 seat, receiving 51% of the vote to May's 48%. Monica Paris was also re-elected as commissioner for Zone 1 in the same election.

Why it matters

The result ends eight years of May's tenure in the Zone 3 seat and returns Miller to the commission after his earlier service in Zone 5. Miller credited voters with recognizing that change was needed.

Miller received 51% of the vote to May's 48%, a margin of 98 votes. In the Zone 1 race, Paris won 51% to Navarra's 48%, a 96-vote margin.

The players

Steve Miller

Steve Miller is a former Daytona Beach Zone 5 commissioner who served from 1993 to 1995 and won the Zone 3 seat in this election.

Quanita May

Quanita May is the Daytona Beach city commissioner who held the Zone 3 seat for eight years after first being elected in 2018.

Monica Paris

Monica Paris is a Daytona Beach city commissioner who was first elected in 2022 and was re-elected to the Zone 1 seat in this election.

The details

Miller said Bethune-Cookman University students came out and voted for him. The general election was held Tuesday, with both commission races decided by margins of fewer than 100 votes.

1993 to 1995: Miller served as a Zone 5 commissioner.
2018: May was first elected to the commission.
2022: May defeated Miller, and Paris was first elected to the commission.
November 3, 2026: General election held; Miller defeated May.

Political Context

Miller's victory reverses the 2022 outcome, when May unseated him in the same Zone 3 seat. Paris' re-election in Zone 1 came in a contest decided by a similarly narrow margin.

Daytona Beach residents in Zones 1 and 3 now have new commissioners representing them. The narrow margins mean each seat turned on fewer than 100 ballots.