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Birmingham City Schools, Alabama, elections (2021)
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One seat on the Birmingham City Schools school board in Alabama was up for special election on January 26, 2021. A runoff election was scheduled for March 9, 2021, but it was canceled. The filing deadline for the election was December 11, 2020.
Another nine seats were up for regular election on August 24, 2021. A runoff election was scheduled for October 5, 2021. The filing deadline for the election was July 10, 2021.
Elections
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Candidates and results
Regular election
Birmingham City Schools general runoff election | |
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| Office | Candidates |
| District 1 |
Douglas Ragland (i) Sherman Collins Jr. |
| District 9 |
Le'Darius Hilliard Jason Meadows |
Birmingham City Schools general election | |
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| Office | Candidates |
| District 1 |
Douglas Ragland (i)Sherman Collins Jr. Jerry Tate |
| District 2 |
Terri Michal (i)Neonta Williams |
| District 3 |
Mary Boehm (i) Byron Lagrone |
| District 4 |
Daagye Hendricks (i)Derek L. Billups |
| District 5 |
David McKinney James A. Sullivan  |
| District 6 |
Jamaree Collins Leticia Harvill Yancey Williams Sr. |
| District 7 | The general election was canceled and this candidate was elected: Walter Wilson (i)Did not make the ballot: |
| District 8 |
Sonja Smith (i) Antoinette King Curtis Tyrone Robinson Antwon Womack |
| District 9 |
Le'Darius Hilliard Jason Meadows Susan Diane Mitchell |
Special election
General election
Special general election for Birmingham City Schools District 7
Walter Wilson defeated Madelyn Greene and Stanley Tarver in the special general election for Birmingham City Schools District 7 on January 26, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Walter Wilson (Nonpartisan) | 62.6 | 480 |
 | Madelyn Greene (Nonpartisan) | 34.6 | 265 | |
| Stanley Tarver (Nonpartisan) | 2.9 | 22 | ||
| Total votes: 767 | |||
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Additional elections on the ballot
- See also: Alabama elections, 2021
August 24, 2021
October 5, 2021
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About the district
- See also: Birmingham City Schools, Alabama
Birmingham City Schools is located in Jefferson County, Alabama. The district served 24,070 students during the 2016-2017 school year.[1]
Pivot Counties
- See also: Pivot Counties by state
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. No counties in Alabama are Pivot Counties.
In the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump (R) won Alabama with 62.1 percent of the vote. Hillary Clinton (D) received 34.4 percent. In presidential elections between 1900 and 2016, Alabama voted Democratic 53.33 percent of the time and Republican 40 percent of the time. In the five presidential elections between 2000 and 2016, Alabama voted Republican all five times.
See also
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