Santa Clara Unified School District elections (2018)

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Santa Clara Unified School District elections

General election date
November 6, 2018
Enrollment ('15-'16)
15,388 students

Four seats on the Santa Clara Unified School District school board in California were up for general election on November 6, 2018. Due to lack of opposition, however, the elections for two seats were canceled and did not appear on the ballot.[1]

Elections

Candidates and results

Trustee Area 1

General election

The general election was canceled. Jim Canova (Nonpartisan) won without appearing on the ballot.

Trustee Area 2 (2 seats)

General election

General election for Santa Clara Unified School District school board Trustee Area 2 (2 seats)

Vickie Fairchild and incumbent Jodi Muirhead defeated Ashish Mangla in the general election for Santa Clara Unified School District school board Trustee Area 2 on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Vickie Fairchild
Vickie Fairchild (Nonpartisan)
 
43.1
 
21,886
Image of Jodi Muirhead
Jodi Muirhead (Nonpartisan)
 
41.4
 
21,015
Image of Ashish Mangla
Ashish Mangla (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
15.6
 
7,914

Total votes: 50,815
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Trustee Area 3

General election

The general election was canceled. Andrew Ratermann (Nonpartisan) won without appearing on the ballot.

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About the district

See also: Santa Clara Unified School District, California

The Santa Clara Unified School District is located in California. The district was the 102nd-largest school district in the state in the 2014–2015 school year and served 15,298 students.[2]


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.[3][4]

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

Santa Clara Unified School District California School Boards
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