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The Collier County Commission District 2 seat is on the Nov. 3, 2026, ballot for registered voters in the District. Republican incumbent Chris Hall is seeking a second term. His sole challenger is Jeffersonian Party of Florida candidate Cody Davis. The winner will serve a four-year term on the five-member Collier County Board of County Commissioners.

For background on how the BCC is structured and what commissioners do, please visit my primer, The Collier County Board of County Commissioners, on Sparker’s Soapbox.

In this post, I summarize the backgrounds and stated priorities of the two candidates seeking the District 2 seat, along with their endorsements, recent news coverage, and campaign finance data, to help voters prepare to cast their ballots. I also include links where you can research each candidate further.

• Chris Hall (Republican)
• Cody Davis (Jeffersonian)
• Campaign Finances

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Chris Hall

Republican incumbent Chris Hall was born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and grew up as the oldest child in a military family that lived in numerous states, including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Indiana, Alabama, Maryland, Utah, South Carolina, and Florida. He holds a degree in Industrial Distribution (Engineering Sales) from Texas A&M University and has approximately 10 years of experience in electrical distribution. He and his wife also built careers as entrepreneurs in network marketing and real estate investing. (campaign website)

Hall describes himself as a husband of 37 years, father of two sons, and grandfather of seven. He and his wife have served local churches for more than 30 years and are ministers and trainers for the Restoring The Foundations ministry program. (campaign website)

In 2013, Hall survived an airplane crash caused by a faulty fuel pump, an experience he has described as confirming a sense of purpose and destiny not yet fulfilled. He and his wife sold all their holdings in 2021 ahead of his 2022 campaign. (campaign website)

Hall said he decided to run for the County Commission in 2020 after then-commissioner Andy Solis voted in favor of a county mask mandate for local businesses, which Hall opposed. He won a five-way Republican primary and then defeated the Democratic challenger in the general election with more than 70 percent of the vote. He ran unopposed in the August 2026 Republican primary. (campaign website; WGCU; Naples Daily News)

Platform

According to his campaign website, Hall’s “Issues” are:

Hall also has a campaign webpage titled “Battles,” which lists 44 activities from his first term. They include:

• Secured display of Ten Commandments in Collier County buildings (2025)
• Brought first Safe Haven Baby Box to Collier EMS facility (2025)
• Removed fluoride from public potable water supply (2024)
• Worked with Priority Based Budgeting consultant to save Collier over $100 million (2024)
• Pushed to evaluate insourcing (using County employees vs outside contractors) to save taxpayers $2.5M (2024)
• Helped bring public-private relationship to add $8 million investment in East Naples Community Park for 7-yr US Open Pickleball Championship (2024)
• Championed the Health Freedom Bill of Rights to outlaw mask and vaccine mandates in Collier County (2023)
• Spearheaded efforts to return COVID regulation money provided by the CDC (2023)

Endorsements

• Collier County Republican Executive Committee (Collier GOP, 6/12/26; Florida’s Voice, 6/4/26)
• Southwest Florida Young Republicans (Florida’s Voice, 7/13/26)

In the News

• Collier to return CDC grant money after push by ‘medical freedom’ supporters. (Naples Daily News, 2/16/23)
• Collier leaders pass ‘health freedom’ ordinance to protect individual liberties. (Naples Daily News, 4/12/23)
• Collier commissioner Hall revives controversial ‘Bill of Rights sanctuary’ declaration. (Naples Daily News, 7/12/23)
• Collier County commissioner Hall caught in election deception – cites Bible verse as defense. (WGCU, 8/10/23)
• Collier commissioners approve display of Ten Commandments at county-owned buildings. (Naples Daily News, 8/27/25)
• Conservation Collier to get $34 million to buy sensitive land after plan to gut it (again) fails to gain traction. (WGCU, 9/19/25)
• Collier commission keeps millage rate, funds $2.2B budget. (Gulfshore Business, 9/19/25)
• Collier County dedicates part of Immokalee Road as ‘Charlie Kirk Memorial Highway’. (Naples Daily News, 10/29/25)
• Collier rail trail funding plan draws conservation pushback. (Gulfshore Business, 3/12/26)
• Collier commissioners weighing cut to Conservation Collier tax rate. (Naples Daily News, 9/4/26)

Further Research

• Campaign website: chrishallnaples.com
• Facebook: Chris Hall Naples
• Official county page: Collier County government profile

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Cody Davis

Jeffersonian challenger Cody Davis describes himself as a historian and election law expert. He grew up in Illinois and has visited Southwest Florida since childhood, when his grandparents spent winters in Fort Myers. He moved to Naples full-time in 2019 along with his family and his grandparents, who also relocated nearby. Davis states that he was homeschooled through both high school and college, focusing his studies on American history, American legal history, and the history of American development. (campaign website)

In 2022, Davis started a political action committee called Vote Men PAC to support “electing men.” “We need men to lead and women to follow,” Davis told Palm Beach Post reporter Frank Cerabino in 2023. Vote Men PAC received approximately $4,000 in contributions between 2022 and 2024, most of it from Davis himself. Three of the four candidates who received PAC donations in 2023 returned them. Vote Men PAC was disbanded in June 2024. (Florida Department of State; Florida Politics; Palm Beach Post)

In October 2024, Davis formed the Jeffersonian Party of Florida, which describes itself as advocating for “federal, constitutional, American government.” Its published principles call for ending U.S. alliances with NATO and the State of Israel, the creation of militias that operate at the state level “publicly and/or privately,” and a “return to the traditional understanding of equality” that the party frames as not requiring the destruction of “distinctions of nations and races.” The principles also elaborate positions on government structure, constitutional reform, and American symbols. (Jeffersonian Party principles)

Davis also founded the Collier County Jeffersonian Executive Committee, the only local third-party organization recognized by the Collier Supervisor of Elections. Davis is the first local third-party candidate to qualify in Collier County. (campaign website; colliervotes.gov)

In October 2025, Davis filed a complaint with the Florida Elections Commission alleging that the Collier County Republican Executive Committee and its leadership violated Florida election law in the organization’s financial reports, citing alleged irregularities in reported contributions and expenditures. (campaign website)

On Jan. 13, 2025, Davis spoke during public comment at a Naples City Council workshop on Naples Pride’s permit application for its June 2025 festival. According to Davis, “The debate was about whether the event should be permitted to happen at all, inside or outside, and if it was to happen, whether lewd behavior would be allowed in the public park, right in the heart of downtown Naples, and next to the children’s playground.” “I was personally invited to advocate against permitting the event by a Catholic friend,” Davis said. The council voted 5-2 on Jan. 15, 2025, to approve the permit, with restrictions. (Cody Davis / Substack; WGCU)

Davis has appeared before the Collier County Board of County Commissioners on multiple occasions in public comment, challenging developer rezonings, growth management amendments, variances, and conditional uses. On August 2026, he spoke against a proposed amendment to the Conservation Collier program; a vote on the amendment at the meeting was delayed. (campaign website; Coastal Breeze News)

The activities and positions described above provide background on Davis’s previous political involvement and the Jeffersonian Party he founded. They are not the focus of his current campaign for County Commission, which centers primarily on local growth, land use and conservation, as described in his platform below.

Platform

Davis’s campaign website lists three named issue priorities. (campaign website)

• Keep Collier’s Character
• Restore Conservation Collier
• Fairness in Land-Use Decisions

Endorsements

No endorsements were listed on his campaign website as of August 6, 2026.

In the News

• Just for laughs? Florida PAC dedicated to keeping women from being elected. (Palm Beach Post, 10/16/23)
• Leader of fringe political party advocates lynching to stop LGBTQ+ Pride event. (SPLC, 1/27/25)
• SPLC Wrote An Article About Me – My Response. (Cody Davis / Substack, 1/30/25)
• I am running for Collier County Commissioner District 2. (Cody Davis / Substack, 6/6/25)
• Collier commissioner Chris Hall faces Jeffersonian candidate in November. (Naples Daily News, 6/23/26)
• Commissioners delay Conservation Collier amendment after public pushback. (Coastal Breeze News, 8/27/26)

Further Research

• Campaign website: codyforcollier.com
• YouTube: Jeffersonian Party public comment playlist
• Substack: codydavis.substack.com
• X: @VoteMenPac

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Campaign Finances

The figures below reflect campaign finance activity reported through the filing period ending Aug. 21, 2026.

Chris Hall’s Contributions

Hall reported $77,107 in monetary contributions and $2,033 in in-kind contributions through Aug. 21. Real estate, development and construction interests accounted for about 42 percent of that amount, retired donors for 22 percent and legal-industry sources for six percent. Less than one percent came from donors whose occupations were unspecified or reported as unknown. Hall received $5,500 from six political committees: three Realtor political committees, the Apartment Political Action Committee, Collier Citizens for Responsible Government, and Friends of Amira Fox.

Cody Davis’s Contributions

Davis reported $8,277 in monetary contributions and $13 in in-kind contributions through Aug. 21. His contributors included two Jeffersonian Party committees and individuals whose reported occupations included corrections technician, dispatch, homemaker and retired. Davis received $4,327 in four contributions from two Jeffersonian Party committees, the Collier County Jeffersonian Executive Committee and the State Executive Committee of the Jeffersonian Party of Florida, the political party Davis founded.

Campaign finance data was compiled from the Collier County Supervisor of Elections campaign finance filings using Claude Cowork and ChatGPT and cross-checked against source records by the author. Data through Aug. 21, 2026. See the Collier County Supervisor of Elections’ Candidate Reports for complete filings; click a candidate’s name to view their individual report.

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This post was researched and drafted with the assistance of Claude (Anthropic AI) and ChatGPT. The content was reviewed, edited, and fact-checked by the author. Both humans and AI can make mistakes. Please let us know if you spot one.