{"id":183260,"date":"2026-03-08T15:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T15:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/183260\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T15:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T15:24:07","slug":"ruthi-critton-elected-mayor-of-eatonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/183260\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruthi Critton elected mayor of Eatonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Eatonville, Fla. \u2013 Official results from the Orange County Supervisor of Elections show Ruth \u201cRuthi\u201d Critton won Eatonville\u2019s mayoral contest with 175 votes, or about 41.8%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Angela Y. Thomas received 201 votes, or about 48.7%, in the race for town council Seat 2, topping Eric McIntyre (181 votes, 43.8%) and Ryan Novak (31 votes, 7.5%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">LaDwyana Ware\u2011Jordan won council Seat 3 with 296 votes, about 71.5%, to Dwayne A. Rackard\u2019s 118 votes, or about 28.5%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Mayor Angie Gardner did not seek re-election to a fourth term. She has filed to run for the newly drawn District 7 seat on the Orange County Commission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Canvassing Board will meet on March 11, 2026, to verify the results of the election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Eatonville, founded by African-Americans and long described as the nation\u2019s oldest continuously incorporated Black town, picked replacements for the mayor and two council seats in a turnout decided in a small number of votes.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eatonville, Fla. \u2013 Official results from the Orange County Supervisor of Elections show Ruth \u201cRuthi\u201d Critton won Eatonville\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4773,2811,1335,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-183260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-eatonville","tag-election","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}