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Voters in Winter Park and Oakland will choose new mayors during municipal elections March 19, but four Orange County cities won’t have contested local races on the ballot because of a lack of candidates. Qualifying for municipal office wrapped up Monday in Edgewood, Windermere and Winter Park while most of Orange County’s other cities concluded qualifying without a contested race. No election .
George Oliver can run for a seat on the Ocoee City Commission, a judge ruled this week, overruling board members who had rejected his candidacy. Oliver, who in 2018 became the first Black candidate to win a municipal race in Ocoee, filed a lawsuit seeking to be deemed a legal candidate for office ahead of the qualifying period closing at noon Friday. He cited a “tortured interpretation” of the .