Western Heights Public Schools elections (2018)

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Western Heights Public Schools elections

General election date
February 13, 2018
Enrollment ('15-'16)
3,852 students

One seat on the Western Heights Public Schools school board in Oklahoma was up for general election on February 13, 2018. In her bid for re-election to the Number 3 seat, incumbent Linda Farley ran against Bud Ward.[1]

Oklahoma held runoff elections on April 3, 2018, for school board races across the state where no candidate received a majority of the vote in the general election.

Elections

Candidates and results

General election

General election for Western Heights Public Schools school board Number 3

Incumbent Linda Farley defeated Bud Ward in the general election for Western Heights Public Schools school board Number 3 on February 13, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
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Linda Farley (Nonpartisan)
 
70.1
 
230
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Bud Ward (Nonpartisan)
 
29.9
 
98

Total votes: 328
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About the district

See also: Western Heights Public Schools, Oklahoma

The Western Heights Public Schools is located in Oklahoma. The district served 3,852 students during the 2015-2016 school year.


Pivot Counties

See also: Pivot Counties by state

There are no Pivot Counties in Oklahoma. 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, Donald Trump (R) won Oklahoma with 65.3 percent of the vote. Hillary Clinton (D) received 28.9 percent. In presidential elections between 1904 and 2016, Oklahoma voted for the winning presidential candidate 72.4 percent of the time. In that same time frame, Oklahoma supported Republican candidates for president more often than Democratic candidates, 65.5 to 34.5 percent. The state favored Republicans in every presidential election between 2000 and 2016.

Presidential results by legislative district

The following table details results of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections by state House districts in Oklahoma. 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.[2][3]

In 2012, Barack Obama (D) won 8 out of 101 state House districts in Oklahoma with an average margin of victory of 37.4 points. In 2016, Hillary Clinton (D) won 11 out of 101 state House districts in Oklahoma with an average margin of victory of 27.7 points. Clinton won one district controlled by a Republican heading into the 2018 elections.
In 2012, Mitt Romney (R) won 93 out of 101 state House districts in Oklahoma with an average margin of victory of 37.3 points. In 2016, Donald Trump (R) won 90 out of 101 state House districts in Oklahoma with an average margin of victory of 42.2 points. Trump won 18 districts controlled by Democrats heading into the 2018 elections.


See also

Western Heights Public Schools Oklahoma School Boards
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