Orange County Board of County Commissioners

The Board of County Commissioners (BCC) is the governing body of Orange County, Florida. It runs in the manner of a county commission. It has six seats held by elected officials called "County Commissioners", each Commissioner in charge of their own District, led by a separate Mayor of Orange County.

The current Mayor of Orange County is Teresa Jacobs (R).

The Mayor and Commissioners each hold four-year terms, and are limited to two full terms each. The Mayor and the Commissioners of the even-numbered Districts are up for election during mid-term election cycles, while the Commissioners of the odd-numbered Districts are up for election during Presidential election cycles. Elections are non-partisan, but partisan politics do tend to play a role in the elections. The elections are contested during the September primary election. If a single candidate fails to get a simple majority of votes for their seat, then the top two candidates will face each other in a run-off election during the November general election.

An election was held on September 5, 2006. Richard Crotty took over the position of Mayor of Orange County during Mel Martinez's 1998 term (Martinez was selected as George W. Bush's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development), so he is still eligible for re-election in 2006. Both Bob Sindler and Homer Hartage were term-limited out, with Hartage running for Democratic nomination to Florida's 8th congressional district, which he lost to Charlie Stuart. Sindler, also a Democrat, was running for the 38th District of the Florida House of Representatives, but was disqualified from campaigning for the seat due to failure to adhere to resign to run rules. Not coincidentally, the man that won District 2 in the primary, Fred Brummer, a Republican, was term-limited out of the same seat Sindler considered running for, and so essentially ran as an incumbent.

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