Who won judicial elections?

Voters chose to keep an embattled incumbent Seminole County judge, elected a juvenile law specialist in Orange and Osceola counties, and said a judge and a justice on the state’s higher courts should be allowed to stay in their seats.

In Seminole County the incumbent judge, Debra Krause, held onto her seat, surviving a challenge from assistant public defender Wayne Culver.

Krause, who had 54 percent of the vote with nearly all precincts reporting, was first elected a county judge in 2012. She spent most of her time since on the county criminal bench handling misdemeanor cases before being transferred to a civil division where she takes small claims disputes. The Florida Supreme Court disciplined her twice for conduct in previous campaigns, which she addressed in mailers sent to voters and in a letter on her website.

Culver, who pulled in about 46 percent of the vote, leads the misdemeanor division in the Seminole County public defender’s office. Before that he was briefly a prosecutor, then ran his own defense practice.

In Orange and Osceola Counties, voters picked Laura Shaffer, who specializes in juvenile law, over defense attorney Dean Mosley in a runoff election.

Shaffer, who had 62 percent of the vote late Tuesday, is a former Department of Children and Families attorney now in private practice. Her focus is juvenile law, from teenagers who get into trouble to child dependency cases to representing victims of human trafficking.

She beat Mosley, who has been an attorney for 32 years. Though much of his work is in criminal defense, he has also taken civil, municipal finance, and personal injury cases. He was also active in a girls’ basketball league, coaching and helping players get college scholarships.

Voters also chose to keep a sitting Florida Supreme Court Justice, Alan Lawson, and a Fifth District Court of Appeals Judge Eric J. Eisnaugle. Both were appointed to their seats by Gov. Rick Scott.

They do not have opponents on the ballot — voters instead have to decide whether they want to let them keep their seats or not.