U.S. Rep. Darren Soto Credit: Photo via Darren Soto for Congress
Two-term U.S. congressman Darren Soto (D-Orlando) has won re-election and will continue to represent Florida Congressional District 9 in D.C.

Soto claimed 61,407 votes, or 62 percent.

Soto, the first Puerto Rican from Florida elected to Congress, serves on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the House Committee on Natural Resources. He successfully pushed through a bill to get Pulse recognized as a national memorial after the mass shooting in Orlando that claimed 49 lives.

His opponent, Bill Olson (R-Davenport), a self-described “Christian conservative,” received 38,054 votes.

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This article appears in Oct 28 – Nov 3, 2020.

Jessica Bryce Young has been working with Orlando Weekly since 2003, serving as copy editor, dining editor and arts editor before becoming editor in chief in 2016.