In November 2024, Orange County voters approved expanding commission districts from six to eight, causing redistricting and reprecincting.
To implement the expansion, the Orange County, Florida Board of County Commissioners (BCC) began a redistricting process and formed the 2025 Mid-Decennial Redistricting Advisory Committee in January 2025. The committee spent months gathering public input and presented two recommended maps. The BCC adopted a final map, as Map 7B was approved in a 5-2 vote.
This map will be effective for the 2026 election cycle.
The incumbent commissioners are unaffected by this change and may serve the rest of their terms as they normally would. The Supervisor of Elections Office is assigning precincts to the new districts.
Reprecincting updates voting precinct boundaries so they match those new district lines. Once new County Commission districts were finalized, the Orange County Supervisor of Elections Office worked quickly to adjust precinct boundaries to ensure every voter receives the correct ballot for their federal, state, and local races moving forward.
Orange County has more than 250 precincts, all of which must align with the new district boundaries. A precinct is a small geographic area that determines: your precinct number, your Election Day polling place, and which local races appear on your ballot.
According to Supervisor of Elections Karen Castor Dentel’s office, if a previously established precinct now falls into more than one County Commission district under the new map, it must be adjusted. For example, if part of a precinct is now in District 3 and part is in District 4, that precinct was divided in a new way so voters in each district receive the correct ballot.
Most Orange County voters will have a new precinct number as a result of the reprecincting process. This is expected and does not affect voter registration status. Just because a voter has a new precinct number does not necessarily mean the Election Day polling place has changed.
Following the reprecincting process, 58 existing precincts were adjusted to align with the new Commission District boundaries, 38 of which impacted fewer than 1,000 voters, the SOE stated.
The Supervisor of Elections will be mailing a new Voter Information Card to every registered voter in Orange County. Voters can expect their updated Voter Information Cards to arrive in February 2026. The updated precincts and districts are already in place and will be utilized for countywide elections moving forward.
Voters can explore Orange County Commission changes from redistricting using an interactive reprecincting and redistricting visualizer.
“The Supervisor of Elections Office was guided by three principles throughout this process,” SOE Karen Castor Dentel’s office posted. “First, we wanted to keep voters at their current polling place whenever possible. Second, we wanted to keep neighborhoods intact so residents living across the street from each other aren’t assigned to different polling places. And finally, we wanted to prevent precincts from becoming so large that they cause long lines on Election Day.”
