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Ana Maria Dueñez
Ana Maria Dueñez is the former District 1 representative on the Ysleta Independent School District school board in Texas. Dueñez lost a re-election campaign in the by-district general election on May 6, 2017.
Elections
2017
Four of the seven seats on the Ysleta Independent School District board of trustees in Texas were up for general election on May 6, 2017. In her bid for re-election to the District 1 seat in the general election, incumbent Ana Maria Dueñez faced challengers Carlos Jesus Bustillos and Mitch Brice. Bustillos won election to the seat. Richard Couder ran unopposed and won the open District 3 seat by default. A runoff election for District 5 was held on June 10, 2017, for incumbent Paul Pearson and challenger Cruz Ochoa. They defeated Miguel Payan and Leila Melendez in the general election. Ochoa defeated Pearson in the runoff election to win his first term on the board. No one filed to run as a regular candidate for the District 7 seat. Write-in candidate Kathryn Hairston was appointed to that seat.[1][2][3][4]
Results
| Ysleta Independent School District, District 1 General Election, 4-year term, 2017 |
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|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Carlos Jesus Bustillos |
64.33% | 806 |
| Ana Maria Dueñez Incumbent | 29.21% | 366 |
| Mitch Brice | 6.46% | 81 |
| Total Votes | 1,253 | |
| Source: Ysleta Independent School District, "Election Summary Report of the May 6, 2017," accessed May 19, 2017 | ||
Funding
Dueñez reported no contributions or expenditures to the Ysleta Independent School District as of May 1, 2017.[5]
2013
| Ysleta Independent School District, District 1 General Election, 4-year term, 2013 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan | Ana Maria Dueñez |
57% | 922 | |
| Nonpartisan | Andy Ramirez Incumbent | 43% | 695 | |
| Total Votes | 1,617 | |||
| Source: El Paso County Elections, "2013 May Election," accessed April 14, 2015 | ||||
What was at stake?
2017
Election trends
- See also: School boards in session: 2015 in brief
The Ysleta Independent board of trustees election was guaranteed to add two new members to the board due to open seats. A third new member was also elected to the board after defeating an incumbent in the general election. A runoff election on June 10, 2017, included one incumbent and one newcomer.
Two new members were elected to the board in the district's 2015 election. One won an open seat, and the other defeated an incumbent to win a term on the board. One incumbent won re-election that year.
| School board election trends | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Candidates per seat | Unopposed seats | Incumbents running for re-election | Incumbent success rate | Seats won by newcomers | |
| Ysleta Independent School District | ||||||
| 2017 | 2.25 | 50.00% | 50.00% | TBD | TBD | |
| 2015 | 2.00 | 0.00% | 66.67% | 50.00% | 66.67% | |
| Texas | ||||||
| 2015 | 1.69 | 48.62% | 77.98% | 83.53% | 34.40% | |
| United States | ||||||
| 2015 | 1.72 | 35.95% | 70.37% | 82.66% | 40.81% | |
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Ysleta Independent School District, "School Board," accessed March 6, 2017
- ↑ El Paso County Elections Department, "Sample Ballot: Ysleta ISD (PDF)," accessed April 12, 2017
- ↑ El Paso County Elections, "May 6, 2017 - Uniform Election Unofficial Final Election Results," accessed May 6, 2017
- ↑ USA Today, "Bustillos unseats incumbent Dueñez in YISD District 1 race," May 7, 2017
- ↑ Ysleta Independent School District, "Current Election May 2017 Uniform Election," accessed May 1, 2017
| Ysleta Independent School District elections in 2017 | |
| El Paso County, Texas | |
| Election date: | May 6, 2017 |
| Candidates: | District 1: • Incumbent, Ana Maria Dueñez • Mitch Brice • Carlos Jesus Bustillos District 3: • Richard Couder District 5: • Incumbent, Paul Pearson • Cruz Ochoa • Miguel Payan • Leila Melendez District 7: • Kathryn Lucero (write-in candidate) |
| Important information: | What was at stake? • Additional elections on the ballot • Key deadlines |
