Keith Abel
Democrat · FL
Keith Abel is a retired U.S. Army logistics professional and a Democratic candidate for Florida House District 98. An Oakland Park resident, he has led the Broward County Democratic Veterans Caucus, served on Oakland Park's Board of Adjustment, and completed the city's Local Government Academy.
Campaign Finance Information — State Representative
Campaign Finance Information · State Representative · August 18, 2026
Data last updated July 27, 2026
- Raised
- $5,376
Top disclosed occupations of direct donors
- RETIRED$150
- EVS$50
Direct contributions by size
- $1,000-$4,999$1,800
- $500-$999$610
- $100-$249$2,195
- $1-$99$771
Source: Florida Division of Elections · 2026 cycle · dos.elections.myflorida.com
Track record
Government Efficiency
· 4 records
Abel opposes broad state preemption and supports local authority over housing, land use, transportation, resilience, public safety, and neighborhood policy.
July 18, 2026For
Source: onyourballot.vote411.org · researched July 18, 2026
Abel publicly supports reducing health-system administrative waste and excessive contractor profits.
July 18, 2026For
Source: onyourballot.vote411.org · researched July 18, 2026
Abel supports targeted property-tax relief structured to preserve essential local services.
July 18, 2026For
Source: onyourballot.vote411.org · researched July 18, 2026
Oakland Park appointed Abel to its Board of Adjustment in October 2023 for a term extending through September 2025.
October 18, 2023For
Source: oaklandpark.novusagenda.com · researched July 18, 2026
Healthcare Affordability
· 2 records
Abel publicly supports Florida Medicaid expansion, protecting vulnerable beneficiaries, maintaining adequate provider networks, improving reimbursement, community health, and telehealth, and reducing prescription-drug costs.
July 18, 2026For
Source: onyourballot.vote411.org · researched July 18, 2026
Abel publicly supports contraception, prenatal and maternal care, childcare, and comprehensive health education.
July 18, 2026For
Source: onyourballot.vote411.org · researched July 18, 2026
Housing Affordability
· 4 records
Abel publicly supports fully funding affordable- and workforce-housing programs and preserving dedicated Sadowski housing trust funds from diversion.
July 18, 2026For
Source: onyourballot.vote411.org · researched July 18, 2026
Abel publicly supports property-insurance rate transparency, stronger oversight, home-mitigation grants, protections against unfair cancellation, and measures to increase insurer competition.
July 18, 2026For
Source: onyourballot.vote411.org · researched July 18, 2026
Abel publicly supports down-payment, closing-cost, rehabilitation-loan, rental-assistance, and first-time-homebuyer programs tied to long-term affordability.
July 18, 2026For
Source: onyourballot.vote411.org · researched July 18, 2026
Abel publicly supports renter safety protections and protections against retaliation by landlords.
July 18, 2026For
Source: onyourballot.vote411.org · researched July 18, 2026
Social Programs and Welfare
· 3 records
Abel publicly supports fully funding affordable- and workforce-housing programs and preserving dedicated Sadowski housing trust funds from diversion.
July 18, 2026For
Source: onyourballot.vote411.org · researched July 18, 2026
Abel publicly supports down-payment, closing-cost, rehabilitation-loan, rental-assistance, and first-time-homebuyer programs tied to long-term affordability.
July 18, 2026For
Source: onyourballot.vote411.org · researched July 18, 2026
Abel publicly supports Florida Medicaid expansion, protecting vulnerable beneficiaries, maintaining adequate provider networks, improving reimbursement, community health, and telehealth, and reducing prescription-drug costs.
July 18, 2026For
Source: onyourballot.vote411.org · researched July 18, 2026
Women's Reproductive Rights
· 2 records
Abel publicly supports abortion access before viability and later access when required by serious health threats, fatal fetal abnormality, rape, incest, or trafficking, without criminalizing patients or clinicians.
July 18, 2026For
Source: onyourballot.vote411.org · researched July 18, 2026
Abel publicly supports contraception, prenatal and maternal care, childcare, and comprehensive health education.
July 18, 2026For
Source: onyourballot.vote411.org · researched July 18, 2026
Election Integrity
· 1 record
Abel supports requiring citizenship to vote while opposing documentary-proof rules that create access barriers; he supports free documents, mobile clinics, provisional registration, notice, and cure procedures.
July 18, 2026For
Source: onyourballot.vote411.org · researched July 18, 2026
Personal Income Tax Reduction
· 1 record
Abel supports targeted property-tax relief structured to preserve essential local services.
July 18, 2026For
Source: onyourballot.vote411.org · researched July 18, 2026
Civil Rights
· 3 records
Abel opposes broad state preemption and supports local authority over housing, land use, transportation, resilience, public safety, and neighborhood policy.
July 18, 2026For
Source: onyourballot.vote411.org · researched July 18, 2026
Abel publicly supports abortion access before viability and later access when required by serious health threats, fatal fetal abnormality, rape, incest, or trafficking, without criminalizing patients or clinicians.
July 18, 2026For
Source: onyourballot.vote411.org · researched July 18, 2026
Abel supports requiring citizenship to vote while opposing documentary-proof rules that create access barriers; he supports free documents, mobile clinics, provisional registration, notice, and cure procedures.
July 18, 2026For
Source: onyourballot.vote411.org · researched July 18, 2026
Corporate Accountability
· 3 records
Abel publicly supports reducing health-system administrative waste and excessive contractor profits.
July 18, 2026For
Source: onyourballot.vote411.org · researched July 18, 2026
Abel publicly supports property-insurance rate transparency, stronger oversight, home-mitigation grants, protections against unfair cancellation, and measures to increase insurer competition.
July 18, 2026For
Source: onyourballot.vote411.org · researched July 18, 2026
Abel publicly supports renter safety protections and protections against retaliation by landlords.
July 18, 2026For
Source: onyourballot.vote411.org · researched July 18, 2026
General
· 4 records
Abel earned a bachelor's degree in public relations and marketing and a master's degree in logistics and supply-chain management from Florida International University.
July 18, 2026
Source: onyourballot.vote411.org · researched July 18, 2026
Abel serves as president of the Broward County Democratic Veterans Caucus.
July 18, 2026
Source: demvetsfl.org · researched July 18, 2026
Abel graduated from Oakland Park's Local Government Academy in 2023.
December 31, 2023
Source: oaklandparkfl.gov · researched July 18, 2026
Keith Abel served in the U.S. Army from 1988 through 2019 and retired after approximately 30 years of service in logistics and supply-chain roles.
December 31, 2019
Source: onyourballot.vote411.org · researched July 18, 2026
Elections
- State Representative · August 18, 2026 · State House District 98; Florida
Profile last researched July 18, 2026.