Abby Merle Freedman

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Abby Merle Freedman

Prior offices:

Broward County Public Schools school board District 4

Years in office: 2012 - 2018

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Elections and appointments

Last election

August 26, 2014

Abby Merle Freedman represented District 4 on the Broward County School Board in Florida. She was first elected to a two-year term for this position in 2012. She defeated Robert Alan Mayersohn in the general election on August 26, 2014. Freedman did not seek re-election in 2018.

Elections

2014

See also: Broward County Public Schools elections (2014)

The August 26, 2014, general election in Broward County featured six seats up for election. District 1 incumbent Ann Murray defeated challenger Felicia Mychele Brunson. The District 3 race included incumbent Heather Pomper Brinkworth and challengers Sam Budyszewick and Nicholas A. "Nick" Sakhnovsky. Brinkworth retained the seat. Abby Merle Freedman won re-election to the District 4 seat against Robert Alan Mayersohn. District 6 incumbent Laurie Rich Levinson defeated challenger Lisa Lafferty Spince, while fellow board member Nora Rupert ran and won in District 7 against Hubert St. Clair. Donna Pilger Korn won re-election to the District 8 seat without opposition.

The general election determined if candidates for each seat could garner a majority of the vote total. If no candidate had received 50 percent plus one of the general election votes in a particular district, the top two vote recipients would have advanced to the runoff election on November 4, 2014. However, none of the races necessitated a runoff.

Results

Broward County Public Schools, District 4 General Election, 4-year term, 2014

Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Nonpartisan	Abby Merle Freedman Incumbent	52.3%	7,309
	Nonpartisan	Robert Alan Mayersohn	47.7%	6,658
Total Votes				13,967
Source: Broward County Supervisor of Elections, "Official Results," accessed June 4, 2014

Funding

Freedman reported $18,500 in contributions and $4,669.25 in expenditures to the Broward County Supervisor of Elections, as of July 25, 2014.

2012

Broward County Public Schools, District 4 Runoff Election, Unexpired 2-year term, 2012

Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Nonpartisan	Abby Merle Freedman	54.6%	48,385
	Nonpartisan	Rochelle "Shelly" Solomon	45.4%	40,268
Total Votes				88,653
Source: Broward County Supervisor of Elections, "2012 General Election," November 19, 2012

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See also

• Broward County Public Schools, Florida
• Broward County Public Schools elections (2014)

External links

Suggest a link

• Broward County Public Schools
• 2012 campaign Facebook page