Orlando, Florida
| Orlando, Florida | |
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| General information | |
Mayor of Orlando
Buddy Dyer | |
| Last mayoral election: | 2023 |
| Next mayoral election: | 2027 |
| Last city council election: | 2024 |
| Next city council election: | 2025 |
| City council seats: | 7 |
| City website | |
| Composition data | |
| Population: | 307,573 |
| Race: | White 40% African American 23.8% Asian 4.3% Native American 0.4% Pacific Islander 0.1% Multiple 19% |
| Ethnicity: | Hispanic or Latino origin 32.9% |
| Median household income: | $69,268 |
| High school graduation rate: | 91.9% |
| College graduation rate: | 42.2% |
| Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census and 2023 ACS data. Percentages are rounded to the nearest 0.1%. | |
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Orlando is a city in Orange County, Florida. The city's population was 307,573 as of 2020, according to the United States Census Bureau.
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City government
- See also: Mayor-council government
The city of Orlando utilizes a strong mayor and city council system. In this form of municipal government, the city council serves as the city's primary legislative body and the mayor serves as the city's chief executive. In the case of Orlando, however, the mayor also serves as the city council's seventh member.[1]
Mayor
The mayor serves as the city's chief executive and is responsible for proposing a budget, signing legislation into law, appointing departmental directors, and overseeing the city's day-to-day operations. The mayor also represents the city on the state, national, and international levels.[1]
The current Mayor of Orlando is Buddy Dyer. Dyer assumed office in 2003.
City council
The Orlando City Council is the city's primary legislative body. It is responsible for adopting the city budget, approving mayoral appointees, levying taxes, and making or amending city laws, policies and ordinances.[1]
The city council is made up of seven members, including the mayor. Six members are elected by the city's six districts, while the mayor is elected at large.[2]
The widget below automatically displays information about city council meetings. The topic list contains a sampling of keywords that Voterheads, a local government monitoring service, found in each meeting agenda. Click the meeting link to see more info and the full agenda:
Other elected officials
Ballotpedia does not cover any additional city officials in Orlando, Florida.
Mayoral partisanship
Orlando has a Democratic mayor. As of October 2025, 66 mayors in the largest 100 cities by population are affiliated with the Democratic Party, 23 are affiliated with the Republican Party, one is affiliated with the Libertarian Party, three are independents, five identify as nonpartisan or unaffiliated, and two mayors' affiliations are unknown. Click here for a list of the 100 largest cities' mayors and their partisan affiliations.
Mayoral elections are officially nonpartisan in most of the nation's largest cities. However, many officeholders are affiliated with political parties. Ballotpedia uses one or more of the following sources to identify each officeholder's partisan affiliation: (1) direct communication from the officeholder, (2) current or previous candidacy for partisan office, or (3) identification of partisan affiliation by multiple media outlets.
Elections
2025
The city of Orlando, Florida, is holding general elections for city council on November 4, 2025. A runoff election is scheduled for December 9, 2025. The filing deadline for this election was September 11, 2025.
2024
The city of Orlando, Florida, held a special general election for city council on May 21, 2024. A runoff election was scheduled for June 18, 2024. The filing deadline for this election was April 15, 2024.
2023
The city of Orlando, Florida, held general elections for mayor and city council on November 7, 2023. A runoff election was scheduled for December 5, 2023.
2021
The city of Orlando, Florida, held general elections for city commissioners on November 2, 2021. A runoff election was scheduled for December 7, 2021. The filing deadline for this election was September 17, 2021.
2019
2017
The city of Orlando, Florida, held elections for city council on December 5, 2017. A primary took place on November 7, 2017. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was September 8, 2017. Three of seven council seats were up for election.
2015
The city of Orlando, Florida, held elections for mayor and city council on November 3, 2015. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was September 4, 2015. Three of the six city council seats were up for election.[3]
Mayor Buddy Dyer and all three city council incumbents filed for and won re-election. Dyer defeated challengers Sunshine Grund and Paul Paulson. District 2 incumbent Tony Ortiz was unopposed. Patty Sheehan defeated Aretha Olivarez and Randy Ross. The District 6 race saw incumbent Samuel B. Ings defeat challengers Nathan Chambers, Lawanna Gelzer, Marcus Robinson and Ka'Juel Washington.[4]
2014
The city of Orlando, Florida, held elections for city council on April 8, 2014. A runoff took place on May 6 for the District 5 seat.[5] Three seats were up for election.
In Districts 1 and 3, the incumbent ran unopposed. Thus, there was only one contested seat in the April 8 election. Because no candidate won more than 50 percent of the vote for the District 5 seat, a runoff election was held on May 6, 2014, which Regina Hill won.[6]
Census information
The table below shows demographic information about the city.
| Demographic Data for Orlando | |
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| Orlando | |
| Population | 307,573 |
| Land area (sq mi) | 111 |
| Race and ethnicity** | |
| White | 43.2% |
| Black/African American | 22.9% |
| Asian | 4.4% |
| Native American | 0.1% |
| Pacific Islander | 0.2% |
| Other (single race) | 8.4% |
| Multiple | 21% |
| Hispanic/Latino | 35.6% |
| Education | |
| High school graduation rate | 91.9% |
| College graduation rate | 42.2% |
| Income | |
| Median household income | $69,268 |
| Persons below poverty level | 15.5% |
| Source: population provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "Decennial Census" (2020). Other figures provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2018-2023). | |
| **Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here. | |
Budget
The city's budget process operates by fiscal years running from October 1 through September 30 of the next year. The mayor and city council are responsible for developing the annual budget proposal. The city council adopts the budget via a majority vote. The city's Management and Budget Division oversees the formulation, implementation, evaluation, and supervision of the annual budget in accordance with state law.[7][8][9]
Fiscally standardized cities data
The fiscally standardized cities (FiSC) data below was compiled by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy to make municipal budgets comparable across cities in the United States.[10]
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FiSCs are constructed by adding revenues and expenditures of each central city municipal government to a portion of the revenues and expenditures of overlying governments, including counties, independent school districts, and special districts. The allocations to FiSCs are estimates of the revenues collected from and services provided to central city residents and businesses by these overlying independent governments. Thus FiSCs provides a full picture of revenues raised from city residents and businesses and spending on their behalf, whether done by the city government or a separate overlying government.[11] |
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The tables below show estimated finances within city limits. As such, the revenue and expenses listed may differ from the actual city budget.
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Historical total revenue and expenditure
To see the historical total revenue or expenditures as a rounded amount in this city, hover over the bars.[10]
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Contact information
Mayor's office
400 South Orange Ave.
Orlando, FL 32801
Phone: 407-246-2221
City Clerk's office
400 South Orange Ave.
Orlando, FL 32801
Phone: 407-246-2251
Click here for city council contact information.
Ballot measures
- See also: Orange County, Florida ballot measures
Orlando is in Orange County. A list of ballot measures in Orange County is available here.
Noteworthy events
2020: Events and activity following the death of George Floyd
During the weekend of May 29-31, 2020, demonstrations and protests took place in cities nationwide, including Orlando, following the death of George Floyd. Events in Orlando, Florida, began on Thursday, May 28, 2020, at a home owned by Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer who arrived at the scene of Floyd's arrest and pressed his knee onto Floyd's neck.[13] On May 31, Mayor Buddy Dyer (D) issued a curfew.[14] The national guard was not deployed.
2015: Study on city's nondiscrimination laws
In July 2015, the Movement Advancement Project described Orlando, Florida, as a city or county that prohibited discrimination in employment on the basis of gender identity via ordinances that apply to public and private employers. At that time, a total of 71 of America's largest 100 cities prohibited private employers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation, while 69 of those cities also prohibited discrimination based on gender identity. This did not include those jurisdictions that prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity for government employees.[15]
Nondiscrimination laws can cover a variety of areas, including public employment, private employment, housing, and public accommodations. Such laws may be enacted at the state, county, or city level.
See also
External links
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- City of Orlando
- Orlando Mayor & City Council
- City Charter and Municipal Code
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 City of Orlando, "Chapter 2 - ADMINISTRATION," accessed August 11, 2021
- ↑ City of Orlando, "Mayor & City Council," accessed August 11, 2021
- ↑ City of Orlando, "2015 Election timeline," accessed August 10, 2015
- ↑ City of Orlando, "Announced City Candidates for the 2015 General Election," accessed September 8, 2015
- ↑ City of Orlando, "Election Information," accessed April 7, 2014
- ↑ The Orlando Sentinel, "Juan Lynum, Regina Hill in runoff for Orlando Council seat," April 8, 2014
- ↑ City of Orlando, "City Charter Sec. 33. - Annual Budget—Generally.," accessed August 23, 2023
- ↑ City of Orlando, Florida, "ANNUAL BUDGET 2022/2023," accessed August 23, 2023
- ↑ City of Orlando, "Management and Budget Division," accessed August 23, 2023
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, "Fiscally Standardized Cities database," accessed August 23, 2023
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, "Fiscally Standardized Cities," accessed August 23, 2023
- ↑ The Orlando Sentinel, "As ex-Minneapolis officer arrested on murder charge, protesters at his Orlando-area home demand justice for George Floyd," May 29, 2020
- ↑ Laughing Place, "Orlando and Orange County Under Curfew from 10:00 pm to 5:00 am," May 31, 2020
- ↑ Movement Advancement Project, "Local Employment Non-Discrimination Ordinances," accessed July 7, 2015
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