Ceres Unified School District elections (2017)
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Four of the seven seats on the Ceres Unified School District board of trustees in California were scheduled to be up for nonpartisan general election on November 7, 2017, but the election was canceled due to lack of opposition. Incumbents Mike Welsh, Valli Wigt, Lourdes Perez, and Betty Davis were the only candidates to file for the Trustee Area 2, 3, 5, and 6 seats, respectively. They were re-elected to five-year terms by default.[1]
Canceling elections due to unopposed races was not unusual for the district. The 2013 and 2015 elections were also canceled after incumbents were the only ones to file. For information on election trends in the district, click here.
Elections
Voter and candidate information
The Ceres Unified board of trustees consists of seven members. Members are normally elected to four-year terms, but for the 2017 and 2019 elections, they were elected to five-year terms in order to switch the district's elections to even-numbered years, a requirement of a statewide voter participation law. The nonpartisan elections are held by district on a staggered basis so that three or four seats are up for election every two years.[2][3][4]
To get on the ballot, board of trustees candidates had to file with the Stanislaus County Registrar of Voters by August 11, 2017. To vote in this election, citizens of the school district would have had to register by October 23, 2017, if the election had not been canceled.[5] Photo identification would not have been required to vote in this election.[6]
Candidates and results
Trustee Area 2
Results
This election was canceled due to lack of opposition. Incumbent Mike Welsh won another term by default.[1]
Candidates
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Trustee Area 3
Results
This election was canceled due to lack of opposition. Incumbent Valli Wigt won another term by default.[1]
Candidates
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Trustee Area 5
Results
This election was canceled due to lack of opposition. Incumbent Lourdes Perez won another term by default.[1]
Candidates
| Lourdes Perez
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Trustee Area 6
Results
This election was canceled due to lack of opposition. Incumbent Betty Davis won another term by default.[1]
Candidates
| Betty Davis
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Additional elections on the ballot
- See also: California school board elections, 2017
If it had not been canceled, the Ceres Unified board of trustees election would have shared the ballot with elections for the Stanislaus County Board of Education.[1]
Key deadlines
The following dates were key deadlines for the November 2017 California school board elections.[7][8]
Endorsements
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Campaign finance
California school board candidates had to file two pre-election campaign finance reports. The first was due on September 28, 2017, and the second was due on October 26, 2017. In addition to those two reports, candidates had to file a semi-annual report on January 31, 2018, if they did not terminate their campaign committees by December 31, 2017.[8]
If candidates did not raise or spend more than $2,000 for their campaigns, they had to file Form 470 instead of the regular campaign finance report on September 28, 2017. They did not have to file any additional campaign finance reports as long as their campaign contributions and expenditures remained under $2,000.[8]
Past elections
To see results from past elections in the Ceres Unified School District, click here.
What was at stake?
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Election trends
- See also: School boards in session: 2015 in brief
The 2017 Ceres Unified board of trustees election followed a district trend. In both 2013 and 2015 all of the incumbents whose terms were up for re-election filed to retain their seats and ran unopposed. Those incumbents won re-election to their seats automatically after the district canceled the elections, just as the four incumbents who filed to run for additional terms in 2017 did.
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| Year | Candidates per seat | Unopposed seats | Incumbents running for re-election | Incumbent success rate | Seats won by newcomers | |
| Ceres Unified School District | ||||||
| 2017 | 1.00 | 100.00% | 100.00% | 100.00% | 0.00% | |
| 2015 | 1.00 | 100.00% | 100.00% | 100.00% | 0.00% | |
| 2013 | 1.00 | 100.00% | 100.00% | 100.00% | 0.00% | |
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| 2015 | 2.01 | 22.95% | 73.77% | 81.11% | 39.34% | |
| United States | ||||||
| 2015 | 1.72 | 35.95% | 70.37% | 82.66% | 40.81% | |
About the district
The Ceres Unified School District is located in Stanislaus County in central California. The county seat is Modesto. Stanislaus County was home to an estimated 541,560 residents in 2016, according to the United States Census Bureau.[9] The district was the 119th-largest school district in the state in the 2014-2015 school year and served 13,694 students.[10]
Demographics
Stanislaus County underperformed compared to California as a whole in terms of higher education achievement between 2011 and 2015. The United States Census Bureau found that 16.5 percent of county residents aged 25 years and older had attained a bachelor's degree, compared to 31.4 percent for state residents. During the same time period, the median household income for Stanislaus County was $50,125, compared to $61,818 for the entire state. The poverty rate in the county was 19.5 percent, while it was 15.3 percent statewide.[9]
| Racial Demographics, 2016[9] | ||
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| Race | Stanislaus County (%) | California (%) |
| White | 83.9 | 72.7 |
| Black or African American | 3.4 | 6.5 |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 2.0 | 1.7 |
| Asian | 5.9 | 14.8 |
| Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander | 0.9 | 0.5 |
| Two or More Races | 4.0 | 3.8 |
| Hispanic or Latino | 45.6 | 38.9 |
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.
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See also
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Stanislaus County Registrar of Voters, "Consolidated District Election - Tuesday, November 7, 2017: Unofficial Candidate List," accessed August 12, 2017
- ↑ Ceres Unified School District, "Board of Trustees," accessed August 3, 2017
- ↑ Ceres Unified School District, "Resolution to Reschedule Election of Governing Board Members," accessed August 3, 2017
- ↑ Stanislaus County Registrar of Voters, "Consolidated District Election - Tuesday, November 7, 2017," accessed August 3, 2017
- ↑ Stanislaus County Registrar of Voters, "Consolidated District Election Calendar Tuesday, November 7, 2017," accessed August 3, 2017
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Where and How to Vote," accessed August 1, 2017
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "2017 County Administered Elections," accessed August 1, 2017
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 California Fair Political Practices Commission, "Filing Schedule for Candidates and Controlled Committees for Local Office Being Voted on November 7, 2017," accessed September 18, 2017
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 United States Census Bureau, "QuickFacts: Stanislaus County, California; California," accessed August 3, 2017
- ↑ U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, "Common Core of Data, file ccd_lea_052_1414_w_0216161a, 2014-2015," accessed November 16, 2016
| Ceres Unified School District elections in 2017 | |
| Stanislaus County, California | |
| Election date: | November 7, 2017 (canceled) |
| Candidates: | Trustee Area 2: • Incumbent, Mike Welsh Trustee Area 3: • Incumbent, Valli Wigt Trustee Area 5: • Incumbent, Lourdes Perez Trustee Area 6: • Incumbent, Betty Davis |
| Important information: | What was at stake? • Additional elections on the ballot • Key deadlines |
