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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
Research and campaign finance data for this post were compiled with assistance from Claude (Anthropic AI), drawing on colliervotes.gov, candidate websites, and Florida news sources. All information was reviewed and verified by the author.
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
Hall’s campaign website presents a range of positions and accomplishments rather than a dedicated Issues or Platform page. His stated priorities include fiscal restraint; he says he fought against tax increases and worked to reduce county spending through priority-based budgeting. He has championed private-sector approaches to affordable housing, Conservation Collier land purchases, and the repeal of what he describes as “unnecessary regulations on homeowners and landlords.”
Hall has also advocated for what he calls the “Health Freedom Bill of Rights to outlaw mask and vaccine mandates in Collier County” and to return federal COVID relief funds. Additional stated priorities include public safety, measures he describes as protecting conservative social values, and economic development initiatives such as the opening of the Great Wolf Lodge and attracting a professional soccer team to the county. (campaign website)
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 County commissioner Hall caught in election deception – cites Bible verse as defense. (WGCU, 8/10/23)
- Collier County to remain single-member voting district. (Gulfshore Business, 2/27/24)
- 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 to designate road to Immokalee after slain conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk. (WGCU, 10/29/25)
- Collier rail trail funding plan draws conservation pushback. (Gulfshore Business, 3/12/26)
- Collier GOP announces endorsements in local races as Alfie Oakes backs Jeff Donaldson. (Florida’s Voice, 6/4/26)
- Collier County approves major Ave Maria expansion plan. (Gulfshore Business, 6/12/26)
- Collier commissioner Chris Hall faces Jeffersonian candidate in November. (Naples Daily News, 6/23/26)
Further Research
- Campaign website: chrishallnaples.com
- Facebook: Chris Hall Naples
- Official county page: Collier County government profile
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. The PAC focused on supporting male candidates over female candidates in Florida races and 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, citing the PAC’s ideology; only one kept the contribution. In an October 2023 interview, Davis said: “We need men to lead and women to follow.” He also appeared alongside members of Church Militant at a March 2023 protest of the Naples Pride event outside Naples City Council. The Southern Poverty Law Center describes Church Militant as a far-right anti-LGBTQ+ hate group. Davis disbanded Vote Men PAC in June 2024. (SPLC; Florida Politics)
Davis founded Vote Men PAC in 2022 and reconstituted it as the Jeffersonian Party of Florida in October 2024; the party gained ballot access in Florida in 2024. The party 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, which he states is the only local third-party organization recognized by the Collier Supervisor of Elections. The qualifying officer for the Collier Supervisor of Elections described Davis as the first local third-party candidate to qualify in Collier County. (campaign website; colliervotes.gov)
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. “The consensus of Americans for centuries was that lynching, when done correctly, is both completely lawful and appropriate,” he said, adding that “lawful violence is acceptable” to oppose LGBTQ+ gatherings. He framed his arguments as consistent with American legal tradition. Two days later, the Naples city police chief stated: “It’s a real threat, and we take it real and we plan for it that way.” The council voted 5-2 on Jan. 15, 2025, to approve Naples Pride’s permit for Cambier Park, with restrictions limiting drag performances to an indoor venue for adults 18 and older. (SPLC; 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. In October 2025, he 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)
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
- Leader of fringe political party advocates lynching to stop LGBTQ+ Pride event. (SPLC, 1/27/25)
- 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)
Further Research
- Campaign website: codyforcollier.com
- YouTube: Jeffersonian Party public comment playlist
- Substack: codydavis.substack.com
- X: @VoteMenPac
Campaign Finances
The figures below reflect campaign finance activity reported through the filing period ending Aug. 21, 2026.
Chris Hall’s Contributions
Hall raised $79,141 from 119 donors, 70 percent of whom were from Collier County. Donors with unspecified or undisclosed occupations accounted for 35 percent of his contributions; real estate and construction sources for 32 percent, retired donors for 22 percent, and legal-industry sources for six percent.
Hall received $5,500 from six political committees: four real estate industry political committees, the Collier Citizens for Responsible Government, and Friends of Amira Fox, the campaign committee of 20th Judicial Circuit State Attorney Amira Fox.
Cody Davis’s Contributions
Davis’s $8,290 total included a $1,413 contribution Davis made to his own campaign and came from six outside donors, two of whom were from Collier County. None of Davis’s outside contributions came from real estate, construction, or legal sources; donors with unspecified or undisclosed occupations accounted for 86 percent, and retired donors for 14 percent.
Davis received $4,327 from four contributions to 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 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.
