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Boise School District elections (2018)

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Boise School District elections

General election date
September 4, 2018
Enrollment ('15-'16)
25,900 students

Three seats on the Boise School District school board in Idaho were up for general election on September 4, 2018. The filing deadline was June 29, 2018.[1] Incumbents Maria Greeley and Troy Rohn won re-election, and newcomer Alicia Estey won the third seat on the ballot. They defeated James Tooman, Branden Durst, and Shari Fernandez.[2]

Elections

Candidates and results

At-large

General election

General election for Boise School District Board of Trustees At-large (3 seats)

The following candidates ran in the general election for Boise School District Board of Trustees At-large on September 4, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Alicia Estey
Alicia Estey (Nonpartisan)
 
30.4
 
3,519
Image of Maria Greeley
Maria Greeley (Nonpartisan)
 
28.1
 
3,252
Image of Troy Rohn
Troy Rohn (Nonpartisan)
 
27.0
 
3,124
Shari Fernandez (Nonpartisan)
 
7.0
 
810
Image of Branden Durst
Branden Durst (Nonpartisan)
 
4.9
 
567
James Tooman (Nonpartisan)
 
2.6
 
300

Total votes: 11,572
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Additional elections on the ballot

See also: Idaho elections, 2018

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About the district

See also: Boise School District, Idaho

The Boise School District is located in Idaho. The district was the second-largest school district in the state in the 2014–2015 school year and served 26,240 students.[3]


Pivot Counties

See also: Pivot Counties by state

No counties in Idaho are Pivot Counties. 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 Idaho with 59.3 percent of the vote. Hillary Clinton (D) received 27.5 percent. Independent candidate Evan McMullin received 6.7 percent. In presidential elections between 1900 and 2016, Idaho voted Republican 70 percent of the time and Democratic 30 percent of the time. In the five presidential elections between 2000 and 2016, Idaho voted Republican all five times.

Presidential results by legislative district

The following table details results of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections by state House districts in Idaho. 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. Data on the results of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections broken down by state legislative districts was compiled by Daily Kos.[4][5]

In 2012, Barack Obama (D) won 4 out of 35 state House districts in Idaho with an average margin of victory of 13.5 points. In 2016, Hillary Clinton (D) won 4 out of 35 state House districts in Idaho with an average margin of victory of 17 points.
In 2012, Mitt Romney (R) won 31 out of 35 state House districts in Idaho with an average margin of victory of 38.6 points. In 2016, Donald Trump (R) won 31 out of 35 state House districts in Idaho with an average margin of victory of 39 points. Trump won three seats controlled by Democrats heading into the 2018 elections.


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