2004 Volusia County Chair election

The 2004 Volusia County Chair election took place on August 31, 2004. The 2004 election was the first election for the position after voters approved an amendment to the home rule charter in 2002 that established the position of County Chair.^[1]

County Councilmember Frank Bruno and Roy Schleicher, a former County Councilmember, entered the race as frontrunners, and were joined at the filing deadline by consultant Larry Stephens. Despite suspicion that Stephens entered the race as a spoiler candidate to hurt Bruno,^[2] Bruno ended up winning the race outright at the primary election, winning 55 percent of the vote to Schleicher's 30 percent and Stephens's 15 percent, avoiding the need for a runoff election.^[3]