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Orlando Mayoral Election, 2012
The 2012 Orlando mayoral election was held on Tuesday, April 3, 2012, to elect the mayor of Orlando, Florida. Incumbent mayor Buddy Dyer was elected to a third full term. Municipal elections in Orlando and Orange County are non-partisan. Had no candidate received a majority of the votes in the general election, a runoff would have been held on Tuesday, May 1, 2012, between the two candidates that received the greatest number of votes. General election Candidates * Mike Cantone, political organizer and progressive activist * Phil Diamond, member of the Orlando City Council, District 1 * Buddy Dyer, incumbent mayor * Ken Mulvaney, businessman and candidate for mayor in 2004 and 2008 Declined * Linda Grund, foster care advocate (dropped out) Results References {{DEFAULTSORT:Orlando mayoral election, 2012 2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 &ndash ...
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2008 Orlando Mayoral Election
The 2008 Orlando mayoral election was held on January 29, 2008, to elect the mayor of Orlando, Florida. Incumbent mayor Buddy Dyer was elected to a second full term. Municipal elections in Orlando and Orange County are non-partisan. Had no candidate received a majority of the votes in the general election, a runoff would have been held between the two candidates that received the greatest number of votes. Results References {{DEFAULTSORT:Orlando mayoral election, 2008 2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ... 2008 Florida elections 2008 United States mayoral elections 2008 in Orlando, Florida January 2008 in the United States ...
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2015 Orlando Mayoral Election
The 2015 Orlando mayoral election was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2015, to elect the mayor of Orlando, Florida. Incumbent mayor Buddy Dyer ran for a fourth full term. Municipal elections in Orlando and Orange County are non-partisan. If no candidate receives a majority of the votes in the general election, runoffs are held between the two candidates that received the greatest number of votes. On November 3, 2015, incumbent mayor Buddy Dyer won with 62.5% of the vote, eliminating the need for a run-off. General election Candidates * Buddy Dyer, incumbent mayor * Sunshine Linda-Marie Grund, pre-med student at Valencia College * Paul Paulson, business executive and U.S. Army veteran, member of Republican Party Results References {{DEFAULTSORT:Orlando mayoral election, 2016 2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts ...
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Buddy Dyer
John Hugh "Buddy" Dyer (born August 7, 1958) is an American politician who has served as the Mayor of Orlando since 2003. A member of the Florida Democratic Party, he is Orlando's longest-serving mayor. He previously served as a representative for Orlando in the Florida State Senate from 1992 to 2002, with the last two years serving as the Senate Democratic leader. Early life and education Dyer was born in 1958 in Orlando. He grew up in nearby Kissimmee, graduating from Osceola High School. He began his political career after serving as an attorney and lawyer following his graduations from Brown University and the University of Florida College of Law.Official Biography of Mayor Dyer
, City of Orlando website


Florida Senate (1992–2002)

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List Of Mayors Of Orlando
The city of Orlando, Florida, was incorporated in 1875. The first mayor, William Jackson Brack, took office in 1875. The Orlando mayor is officially a nonpartisan election. The current mayor is Buddy Dyer, who was first elected in a special election in February 2003. Dyer was elected to his first full term in 2004, and after a brief suspension for six weeks in 2005, has subsequently been re-elected in 2008, 2012, 2015, 2019, and 2023. List of mayors Notes * City commissioner G. H. Sutherland served as acting mayor after Eugene Goodman Duckworth resigned in the wake of a failed city commissioners recall election. Sutherland served for about four weeks until a special election was held. Former mayor James LeRoy Giles won the special election and served out the remainder of the term. * Ernest Page was appointed interim mayor for about six weeks in March–April 2005 while Buddy Dyer was under investigation for election fraud stemming from the 2004 election. The charges aga ...
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Orlando, Florida
Orlando ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Orange County, Florida, United States. The city proper had a population of 307,573 at the 2020 census, making it the fourth-most populous city in Florida behind Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville, Miami, and Tampa, Florida, Tampa and the state's most populous inland city. Part of Central Florida, it is the center of the Greater Orlando, Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2.67 million in 2020. It is the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the Southern United States and the third-largest metropolitan area in Florida behind Miami metropolitan area, Miami and Tampa Bay area, Tampa Bay. Orlando is one of the most-visited cities in the world primarily due to tourism, major events, and convention traffic. It is the fourth-most visited city in the U.S. after New York City, Miami, and Los Angeles, with over 3.5 million visitors as of 2023. Orlando International Airport is the List of the busiest airports in the United Stat ...
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Incumbent
The incumbent is the current holder of an office or position. In an election, the incumbent is the person holding or acting in the position that is up for election, regardless of whether they are seeking re-election. There may or may not be an incumbent on the ballot: the previous holder may have died, retired, resigned; they may not seek re-election, be barred from re-election due to term limits, or a new electoral division or position may have been created, at which point the office or position is regarded as vacant or open. In the United States, an election without an incumbent on the ballot is an open seat or open contest. Etymology The word "incumbent" is derived from the Latin verb ''incumbere'', literally meaning "to lean or lay upon" with the present participle stem ''incumbent-'', "leaning a variant of ''encumber,''''OED'' (1989), p. 834 while encumber is derived from the root ''cumber'', most appropriately defined: "To occupy obstructively or inconveniently; to b ...
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Orlando Sentinel
The ''Orlando Sentinel'' is the primary newspaper of Orlando, Florida, and the Central Florida region, in the United States. It was founded in 1876 and is currently owned by Tribune Publishing Company. The ''Orlando Sentinel'' is owned by parent company, '' Tribune Publishing''. Tribune Publishing was acquired in May 2021 by a hedge fund, Alden Global Capital, which operates its media properties through Digital First Media. The newspaper's website utilizes geo-blocking, making it inaccessible from European countries. History The ''Sentinel''s predecessors date to 1876, when the ''Orange County Reporter'' was first published. The ''Reporter'' became a daily newspaper in 1905, and merged with the ''Orlando Evening Star'' in 1906. Another Orlando paper, the ''South Florida Sentinel'', started publishing as a morning daily in 1913. Then known as the ''Morning Sentinel'', it bought the ''Reporter-Star'' in 1931, when Martin Andersen came to Orlando to manage both papers. Ander ...
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Orange County, Florida
Orange County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the county had a population of 1,429,908, making it the fifth-most populous county in Florida and the List of the most populous counties in the United States, 28th-most populous county in the United States. Its county seat is Orlando, Florida, Orlando, which, along with it being the county's largest city, is the core of the Greater Orlando, Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2.67 million in 2020. As of 2022, Orange County has a gross domestic product of $115 billion, the third-largest GDP of Florida's 67 counties and the List of US counties with GDP over 50 billion US dollars, 27th-largest for the nation's 3,033 counties. The county is a tourist, economic, and cultural hub for the Central Florida region. Popular destinations within the county include Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando, SeaWorld Orlando, Icon Park, Kia Center, D ...
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Two-round System
The two-round system (TRS or 2RS), sometimes called ballotage, top-two runoff, or two-round plurality, is a single-winner electoral system which aims to elect a member who has support of the majority of voters. The two-round system involves one or two rounds of choose-one voting, where the voter marks a single favorite candidate in each round. If no one has a majority of votes in the first round, the two candidates with the most votes in the first round move on to a second election (a second round of voting). The two-round system is in the family of plurality voting systems that also includes single-round plurality (FPP). Like instant-runoff (ranked-choice) voting and first past the post, it elects one winner. The two-round system first emerged in France and has since become the most common single-winner electoral system worldwide. Despite this, runoff-based rules like the two-round system and RCV have faced criticism from social choice theorists as a result of their suscep ...
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Mayoral Elections In Orlando, Florida
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2012 Florida Elections
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sports, where it commonly denotes the first, leading, or top thing in a group. 1 is the unit of counting or measurement, a determiner for singular nouns, and a gender-neutral pronoun. Historically, the representation of 1 evolved from ancient Sumerian and Babylonian symbols to the modern Arabic numeral. In mathematics, 1 is the multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number. In digital technology, 1 represents the "on" state in binary code, the foundation of computing. Philosophically, 1 symbolizes the ultimate reality or source of existence in various traditions. In mathematics The number 1 is the first natural number after 0. Each natural number, ...
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