Roger Chapin was elected Tuesday to the Orlando City Council, riding a well-funded campaign, decades of name recognition and powerful backers to a narrow victory.<\/p>\n
Chapin won about 51% of the vote, with just 200 votes separating him from Mira Tanna.<\/p>\n
He joins the elected body in the midst of a transition as one of two brand new commissioners sworn in at the start of next year. Interim Commissioner Shan Rose only held office for about 18 months and won a full term last month. Mayor Buddy Dyer is retiring in 2027 and other commissioners are weighing their futures as well.<\/p>\n
The officially nonpartisan race was initially a five-way contest, with Chapin and Tanna, both Democrats, receiving the most votes and advancing to a head-to-head runoff. In November, just 14 votes separated the two.<\/p>\n
Chapin, the son of former Orange County mayor Linda Chapin, secured endorsements from the third and fourth-place finishers in that race, as well as Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, retiring city commissioner Robert Stuart, Orange County Sheriff John Mina, as well as unions representing the city\u2019s rank-and-file police and fire fighters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roger Chapin was elected Tuesday to the Orlando City Council, riding a well-funded campaign, decades of name recognition…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[28,114,266,115,1335,139,141,140,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-77734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-orange-county","13":"tag-orlando","14":"tag-orlando-headlines","15":"tag-orlando-news","16":"tag-social"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77734","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=77734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}