ORLANDO, Fla. – Not all Florida elections take place in November.
Local elections can take place throughout the year in Florida, and in March, six cities and towns in Orange County elected city commissioners, mayors and charter amendments.
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The cities of Apopka, Belle Isle, Maitland, Winter Park and the town of Oakland held elections on Tuesday, March 8.
The town of Eatonville had an election on Saturday, March 5.
The races are all nonpartisan, so if you are in that municipality or that district, you could vote in that election.
Here are the results for all the elections in each of these municipalities:
Apopka
City of Apopka residents voted for a mayor and two commission seats up for election, seats 2 and 4. Here’s what the sample ballot for the Apopka election looked like.
Incumbent mayor Bryan Nelson won against challenger Kyle Becker.
The incumbent for commission seat 1, Alexander Smith, was unopposed and automatically reelected.
For commission seat 2, incumbent Diane Velazquez won against challenger Wes Dumey.
For commission seat 4, Nick Nesta won against Eric Mock. Both candidates were campaigning and neither were incumbents.
Polls on Election Day opened Tuesday, March 8 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. after an early voting period ended.
More information is available on the city of Apopka website.
Belle Isle
City of Belle Isle residents only voted for a mayor, since the three incumbents up for reelection on the city council were all unopposed and automatically reelected. Here’s what the sample ballot for the Belle Isle election looked like.
Incumbent Mayor Nicholas Fouraker won the reelection against challenger Holly Bobrowski.
Polls on Election Day opened Tuesday, March 8 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. after an early voting period.
More information is available on the city of Belle Isle website.
Maitland
There was only one election in Maitland, for city council seat 1. Here’s what the sample ballot for the Maitland election looked like.
There were three candidates for the open seat: Lori Wurtzel won against Colleen Lilling and former councilmember Bev Reponen.
Polls on Election Day open Tuesday, March 8 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. after an early voting period.
More information is available on the city of Maitland website.
Town of Oakland
There is only one election in Oakland, for town commission seat 1. Here’s what the sample ballot for the Oakland election looked like.
There were two candidates for the open seat: Rick Polland won against Matthew Bunevich.
Polls on Election Day opened Tuesday, March 8 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. after an early voting period.
More information is available on the town of Oakland website.
Winter Park
Voters in Winter park had two city commission seats to decide on, along with six charter amendments. Here’s what the sample ballot for the Winter Park election looked like.
Voters decided on city commission seat 3, where Kris Cruzada won against Anjali Vaya. There is also city commission seat 4, where Todd Weaver won against Elijah Noel.
With the charter amendments, five of the proposals would change the city’s charter so that a supermajority of city commission members must decide to make changes that would affect property in the city, including zoning for public lands, development in wetlands and residential and lakefront properties.
The sixth proposal would change the city charter to require an additional public meeting and reading of a proposed ordinance before its adoption.
More details on the charter amendments can be found HERE.
Polls on Election Day opened Tuesday, March 8 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. after an early voting period.
More information is available on the city of Winter Park website.