{"id":75779,"date":"2025-12-08T17:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/75779\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T17:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:45:07","slug":"orlando-commission-runoff-election-set-for-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/75779\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando commission runoff election set for Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Voters in Orlando\u2019s third district will decide on Tuesday who their next city commissioner will be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/local\/2025\/11\/04\/orlando-voters-to-decide-several-key-city-council-races-on-tuesday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/local\/2025\/11\/04\/orlando-voters-to-decide-several-key-city-council-races-on-tuesday\/\">No candidate received more than 50% of the vote <\/a>in the November election, which means the two top vote-getters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerchapin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.rogerchapin.com\/\">Roger Chapin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miratanna.com\/meetmira\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.miratanna.com\/meetmira\">Mira Tanna<\/a>, are facing off Tuesday in a runoff election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Chapin got 34.01% of the vote in the five-way race, while Tanna got 33.83%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">District 3 includes the neighborhoods of Audubon Park, Baldwin Park, College Park, and Rosemont. The district has 33,089 registered voters but so far, about 3,700 have voted via mail or early voting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">[WATCH: News 6 speaks with candidates in Orlando District 3 runoff]<\/p>\n<p>How to vote Tuesday<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Polling precincts in the district open Tuesday at 7 a.m. and go to 7 p.m. To find out if you can vote in the district, and where your precinct is located, go to the Orange County Supervisor of Elections website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Remember, if you still have a vote-by-mail ballot, that has to be returned to the elections office by 7 p.m. Tuesday. You can take it directly to the elections office on Kaley Street, or you can surrender it to your assigned precinct to vote in person instead. However, at this point, if you haven\u2019t mailed your ballot out, it won\u2019t make it to the office in time to count.<\/p>\n<p>Meet the Candidates<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">News 6\u2019s Orlando Community Correspondent Lisa Bell sat down with both candidates to find out what they think the biggest issues are in Orlando, how they feel about Gov. DeSantis\u2019 plans to all but eliminate residential property taxes, and more. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">You can watch the full interviews with the candidates below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">You can also read and watch excerpts of the interviews by going to the links below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/politics\/2025\/10\/06\/one-on-one-with-orlando-district-3-candidate-roger-chapin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/politics\/2025\/10\/06\/one-on-one-with-orlando-district-3-candidate-roger-chapin\/\">Roger Chapin<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Businessman Roger Chapin emphasized affordability from a municipal government perspective. Noting that city commissioners can\u2019t control interest rates or insurance costs, but he wants to focus on transit, zoning and walkability as well as keeping government efficient.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/politics\/2025\/10\/06\/one-on-one-with-orlando-district-3-candidate-mira-tanna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/politics\/2025\/10\/06\/one-on-one-with-orlando-district-3-candidate-mira-tanna\/\">Mira Tanna<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Orlando grants manager Mira Tanna also focused on affordability, but she approaches it from the perspective of public transportation, calling for expansions of SunRail and LYNX to get more cars off the road and free up land to build more affordable housing. Tanna does not use a car. She regularly rides LYNX to work.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kiwhtN\">Get breaking news alerts delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Voters in Orlando\u2019s third district will decide on Tuesday who their next city commissioner will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2715,1335,139,141,140,99,6892],"class_list":{"0":"post-75779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-elections","9":"tag-orange-county","10":"tag-orlando","11":"tag-orlando-headlines","12":"tag-orlando-news","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-results-2025"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75779","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=75779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}