Carroll County Schools elections (2016)

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2017 → ← 2014
Carroll County Schools Elections
General election date:
May 24, 2016
Enrollment (13–14):
14,645 students

Four of the seven seats on the Carroll County Board of Education were up for general election on May 24, 2016. Incumbent Bart Cater ran unopposed for re-election in District 6. Rob Cleveland won re-election in District 1 against challenger Bernice Brooks, while District 4 incumbent Denise Askin defeated Jessie Strickland and Clayton Kierbow. Bob Pinckney defeated Alan Martinez for the District 3 seat.

Click here to find out how Carroll County's school board elections compare to other nonpartisan school districts in Georgia.

Elections

Voter and candidate information

The Carroll County Board of Education consists of seven members elected by district to four-year terms. The candidate filing period for Georgia school board candidates lasted from March 7, 2016, to March 11, 2016. Prospective candidates for nonpartisan offices submitted declarations of candidacy with their county election offices. The voter registration deadline for the general election was April 26, 2016.

The following dates were key deadlines for Georgia's nonpartisan school board elections in 2016:

Deadline	Event
March 7, 2016	First day of candidate filing period
March 11, 2016	Candidate filing deadline
April 26, 2016	Voter registration deadline
May 24, 2016	General election
July 26, 2016	General runoff election (if necessary)

District 1

Carroll County Schools, District 1 General Election, 4-Year Term, 2016
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Rob Cleveland Incumbent	51.02%	424
Bernice Brooks	48.98%	407
Total Votes		831
Source: Georgia Secretary of State, "General Primary and Nonpartisan General Election May 24, 2016," accessed December 14, 2016

Rob Cleveland		Bernice Brooks
	Incumbent		Educator Former board member

District 3

Carroll County Schools, District 3 General Election, 4-Year Term, 2016
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Bob Pinckney	55.10%	637
Alan Martinez	44.90%	519
Total Votes		1,156
Source: Georgia Secretary of State, "General Primary and Nonpartisan General Election May 24, 2016," accessed December 14, 2016

Bob Pinckney		Alan Martinez
	Educator

District 4

Carroll County Schools, District 4 General Election, 4-Year Term, 2016
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Denise Askin Incumbent	56.82%	646
Clayton Kierbow	32.81%	373
Jessie Strickland	10.38%	118
Total Votes		1,137
Source: Georgia Secretary of State, "General Primary and Nonpartisan General Election May 24, 2016," accessed December 14, 2016

Denise Askin		Jessie Strickland		Clayton Kierbow
	Incumbent

District 6

Carroll County Schools, District 6 General Election, 4-Year Term, 2016
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Bart Cater Incumbent (unopposed)	100.00%	781
Total Votes		781
Source: Georgia Secretary of State, "General Primary and Nonpartisan General Election May 24, 2016," accessed December 14, 2016

Bart Cater
	Incumbent

Additional elections on the ballot

See also: Georgia elections, 2016

The May 24 school board election shared the ballot with Georgia's statewide primary. This primary included races for Georgia State Senate, Georgia House of Representatives, and local court seats. Primaries for U.S. House and U.S. Senate seats were on the ballot.

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Past elections

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2014 Carroll County Schools, District 2 General Election, 4-year term, 2014 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Sandra A. Morris Incumbent 100% 739 Total Votes 739 Source: Georgia Secretary of State, "General Primary/General Nonpartisan/Special Election," accessed June 23, 2014 Carroll County Schools, District 5 General Election, 4-year term, 2014 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Donald L. Nixon Incumbent 100% 683 Total Votes 683 Source: Georgia Secretary of State, "General Primary/General Nonpartisan/Special Election," accessed June 23, 2014 Carroll County Schools, District 7 General Election, 4-year term, 2014 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Jon Anderson Incumbent 100% 1,206 Total Votes 1,206 Source: Georgia Secretary of State, "General Primary/General Nonpartisan/Special Election," accessed June 23, 2014 2012 Carroll County Schools, District 1 General Election, 4-year term, 2012 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Bernice B. Brooks Incumbent 42% 476      Nonpartisan Rob Cleveland 29.1% 330      Nonpartisan Terry Turner 28.9% 327 Total Votes 1,133 Source: Carroll County Board of Elections, "Archived Election Results," accessed May 13, 2014 Carroll County Schools, District 3 General Election, 4-year term, 2012 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Chris Gammon Incumbent 56.6% 951      Nonpartisan Rob Pinckney 42.8% 719      Nonpartisan Write-in votes 0.7% 11 Total Votes 1,681 Source: Carroll County Board of Elections, "Archived Election Results," accessed May 13, 2014 Carroll County Schools, District 4 General Election, 4-year term, 2012 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Dennise Pate Incumbent 99.5% 1,694      Nonpartisan Write-in votes 0.5% 8 Total Votes 1,702 Source: Carroll County Board of Elections, "Archived Election Results," accessed May 13, 2014 Carroll County Schools, District 6 General Election, 4-year term, 2012 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Bart Cater Incumbent 99% 1,434      Nonpartisan Write-in votes 1% 15 Total Votes 1,449 Source: Carroll County Board of Elections, "Archived Election Results," accessed May 13, 2014 2010 Carroll County Schools, District 2 General Election, 4-year term, 2010 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Sandra Morris 52.5% 1,741      Nonpartisan Dororthy Callaway Incumbent 47.2% 1,566      Nonpartisan Write-in votes 0.3% 9 Total Votes 3,316 Source: Carroll County Board of Elections, "Archived Election Results," accessed May 13, 2014 Carroll County Schools, District 5 General Election, 4-year term, 2010 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Donald Nixon Incumbent 99% 1,815      Nonpartisan Write-in votes 1% 18 Total Votes 1,833 Source: Carroll County Board of Elections, "Archived Election Results," accessed May 13, 2014 Carroll County Schools, District 7 General Election, 4-year term, 2010 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Jon Anderson 57.9% 1,670      Nonpartisan Ed Jenkins 41.4% 1,196      Nonpartisan Write-in votes 0.7% 20 Total Votes 2,886 Source: Carroll County Board of Elections, "Archived Election Results," accessed May 13, 2014

What was at stake?

Issues in the election

Election trends

See also: School board elections, 2014

Georgia's spring nonpartisan school board elections in 2016 featured more districts with unopposed board seats than in 2014. Three of the state's 20 largest nonpartisan districts by enrollment (15 percent) had no contested seats in 2014. This rate doubled to six districts (30 percent) with entirely unopposed board seats in 2016. Ten districts saw fewer candidates per seat in 2016 than 2014, while nine districts had more candidates per seat and one district remained at the same number from year to year.

The following table compares candidates per seat rates and unopposed seat percentages for Georgia's largest nonpartisan school districts for 2014 and 2016:

Year-to-Year School Board Election Comparison, 2014 and 2016
District	Candidates per seat, 2014	Candidates per seat, 2016	Year-to-year change (%)	% of seats unopposed, 2014	% of seats unopposed, 2016
Bibb County School District	2.0	1.83	-8.5	0.0	50.0
Bulloch County Schools	1.5	1.75	16.7	50.0	50.0
Carroll County Schools	1.0	2.0	100.0	100.0	25.0
Catoosa County Public Schools	1.0	1.0	0.0	100.0	100.0
Clarke County School District	1.0	1.5	50.0	100.0	75.0
Colquitt County Schools	2.0	1.0	-100.0	50.0	100.0
Columbia County School System	1.5	1.3	-13.3	50.0	66.7
Coweta County School System	1.75	2.3	31.4	25.0	33.3
DeKalb County School District	3.14	1.0	-68.2	14.3	100.0
Effingham County Schools	2.5	1.3	-48.0	50.0	66.7
Fulton County Schools	1.75	1.0	-42.9	50.0	100.0
Griffin-Spalding County School System	1.67	1.0	-40.1	33.3	100.0
Henry County Schools	2.0	2.3	15.0	0.0	0.0
Houston County Board of Education	2.2	1.5	-31.8	60.0	50.0
Liberty County School System	1.25	1.0	-20.0	75.0	100.0
Lowndes County Schools	2.0	1.5	-25.0	33.3	50.0
Muscogee County School District	2.2	3.0	36.4	40.0	0.0
Rockdale County Public Schools	1.5	2.2	46.7	50.0	40.0
Savannah-Chatham County Public School System	1.8	1.5	-16.7	80.0	50.0
Troup County School System	1.3	2.0	53.8	66.7	50.0

About the district

See also: Carroll County Schools, Georgia

Carroll County Schools is located in Carroll County, Georgia

Carroll County Schools is located in Carroll County, Georgia. The county seat of Carroll County is Carrollton. Carroll County was home to 114,545 residents in 2015, according to the United States Census Bureau. The district was the 24th-largest school district in the state in the 2013–2014 school year and served 14,645 students.

Demographics

Carroll County underperformed in comparison to the rest of Georgia in terms of higher education achievement and median household income in 2014. The United States Census Bureau found that 18.3 percent of Carroll County residents aged 25 years and older had attained a bachelor's degree, compared to 29.3 percent for Georgia as a whole. The median household income in Carroll County was $45,009, compared to $53,482 for the state of Georgia. The poverty rate in Carroll County was 22.9 percent, compared to 14.8 percent for the entire state.

Racial Demographics, 2014
Race	Carroll County (%)	Georgia (%)
White	77.3	77.4
Black or African American	19.1	13.2
American Indian and Alaska Native	0.5	1.2
Asian	1.0	5.4
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	0.1	0.2
Two or More Races	2.0	2.5
Hispanic or Latino	6.5	17.4

Presidential Voting Pattern, Carroll County
Year	Republican Vote (%)	Democratic Vote (%)	Other Vote (%)
2012	67.9	30.5	1.6
2008	65.8	32.9	1.3
2004	70.3	28.9	0.8

Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.

Recent news

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See also

Carroll County Schools	Georgia	School Boards
List of school districts in Georgia	Georgia school board elections, 2016 Public education in Georgia Local ballot measures, Georgia	School board elections, 2016 School board elections, 2015 School board election data analysis, 2016 School board election data analysis, 2015

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