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The Orange County mayor's post is the most powerful elected office in Central Florida. The current mayor of Orange County is Jerry Demings . Demings assumed office on December 4, 2018 and was subsequently re-elected in 2022 .
Jerry L. Demings (born June 12, 1959) is an American politician and former law enforcement officer serving as Mayor of Orange County, Florida since 2018. [1] A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as Sheriff of Orange County, Florida from 2009 to 2018, and served as Chief of the Orlando Police Department and Director of Public Safety for Orange County, Florida.
The 2022 Orange County, Florida, mayoral election was held on August 23, 2022, to elect the mayor of Orange County, Florida. [1] Incumbent Jerry Demings was first elected in 2018, [ 2 ] and was re-elected in 2022 with 60.05%.
The Board of County Commissioners (BCC) is the county commission of Orange County, Florida. The board has seven seats: six seats for the county commissioners for each of six districts and one seat for the mayor of Orange County .
Demings's husband, Jerry Demings, is mayor of Orange County, Florida, and the former Orange County Sheriff. [16] He served as the chief of the Orlando Police Department, the first African American to do so, from 1999 to 2002. [5] [8] The two met on patrol in the OPD; they married in 1988 and have three children. [5]
Orange County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census , the county had a population of 1,429,908, making it the fifth-most populous county in Florida and the 28th-most populous county in the United States .
In Akron, Mayor-elect Shammas Malik was a shoo-in after winning the Democratic primary. He officially won the job with 95.72% of general election votes to 4.28% for a write-in candidate.
The position of Orange County Mayor carries a term limit of two terms, but since Crotty was appointed in the latter half of Martinez's term, he was permitted to run for two full terms. On September 10, 2010, it was confirmed that Armando Gutierrez and Crotty had negotiated the potential move of the Tampa Yankees to Orlando.