San Francisco Unified School District elections (2018)

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San Francisco Unified School District elections

General election date
November 6, 2018
Enrollment ('15-'16)
58,865 students

Three of the seven seats on the San Francisco Unified School District school board in California were up for general election on November 6, 2018.[1]

Elections

Candidates and results

General election

General election for San Francisco Unified Board of Education (3 seats)

The following candidates ran in the general election for San Francisco Unified Board of Education on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
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Alison Collins (Nonpartisan)
 
15.0
 
122,865
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Gabriela Lopez (Nonpartisan)
 
13.7
 
112,299
Image of Faauuga Moliga
Faauuga Moliga (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
13.2
 
107,989
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Phil Kim (Nonpartisan)
 
9.3
 
76,017
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Michelle Parker (Nonpartisan)
 
8.0
 
65,740
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Li Miao Lovett (Nonpartisan)
 
7.5
 
61,412
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John Trasvina (Nonpartisan)
 
5.7
 
46,601
Image of Alida Fisher
Alida Fisher (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
4.6
 
37,735
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Monica Chinchilla (Nonpartisan)
 
4.2
 
34,193
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Lenette Thompson (Nonpartisan)
 
3.7
 
30,496
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Josephine Zhao (Nonpartisan)
 
3.4
 
27,761
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Mia Satya (Nonpartisan)
 
2.1
 
17,540
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Paul Kangas (Nonpartisan)
 
1.7
 
13,967
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Darron Padilla (Nonpartisan)
 
1.6
 
12,950
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Martin Rawlings-Fein (Nonpartisan)
 
1.5
 
12,439
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Connor Krone (Nonpartisan)
 
1.5
 
12,251
Image of Roger Sinasohn
Roger Sinasohn (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
1.5
 
12,018
Image of Lex Leifheit
Lex Leifheit (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
1.2
 
9,605
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Phillip House (Nonpartisan)
 
0.3
 
2,491
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.2
 
1,551

Total votes: 817,920
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Issues in the district

Non-citizens to vote in San Francisco school board elections

In 2016, residents of San Francisco gave non-citizens the right to vote in school board elections by approving Proposition N, and in July 2018 the San Francisco Department of Elections began issuing voter registration forms for city residents who were not U.S. citizens. Non-citizen residents were allowed to vote in the school board election on November 6, 2018, regardless of legal status if they were 18 or older, parents or guardians of children living in the city, and as long as they had not been convicted of a felony for which they were in prison or serving parole. Proposition N gave non-citizens the right to vote until 2022 unless it was extended by the city.[2][3]


About the district

See also: San Francisco Unified School District, California

The San Francisco Unified School District is located in California. The district was the sixth-largest school district in the state in the 2014–2015 school year and served 58,414 students.[4]


Pivot Counties

See also: Pivot Counties by state

There are no Pivot Counties in California. Pivot Counties are counties that voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2008 and 2012 and for Donald Trump (R) in 2016. Altogether, the nation had 206 Pivot Counties, with most being concentrated in upper midwestern and northeastern states.

In the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton (D) won California with 61.7 percent of the vote. Donald Trump (R) received 31.6 percent. In presidential elections between 1900 and 2016, California voted Republican 53.33 percent of the time and Democratic 43.33 percent of the time. In the five presidential elections between 2000 and 2016, California voted Democratic all five times. In 2016, California had 55 electoral votes, which was the most of any state. The 55 electoral votes were 10.2 percent of all 538 available electoral votes and were 20.4 percent of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the election.

Presidential results by legislative district

The following table details results of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections by state Assembly districts in California. Click [show] to expand the table. The "Obama," "Romney," "Clinton," and "Trump" columns describe the percent of the vote each presidential candidate received in the district. The "2012 Margin" and "2016 Margin" columns describe the margin of victory between the two presidential candidates in those years. The "Party Control" column notes which party held that seat heading into the 2018 general election. Data on the results of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections broken down by state legislative districts was compiled by Daily Kos.[5][6]

In 2012, Barack Obama (D) won 58 out of 80 state Assembly districts in California with an average margin of victory of 38.4 points. In 2016, Hillary Clinton (D) won 66 out of 80 state Assembly districts in California with an average margin of victory of 40.3 points. Clinton won 11 districts controlled by Republicans heading into the 2018 elections.
In 2012, Mitt Romney (R) won 22 out of 80 state Assembly districts in California with an average margin of victory of 12.2 points. In 2016, Donald Trump (R) won 14 out of 80 state Assembly districts in California with an average margin of victory of 13 points.


See also

San Francisco Unified School District California School Boards
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