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Cheryl Buford

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Cheryl Buford
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Last election

May 3, 2025

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Cheryl Buford ran for election to the Fort Bend Independent School District to represent Position 7 in Texas. Buford lost in the general election on May 3, 2025.

Biography

Buford's professional experience includes working as a public school teacher and in the nonprofit sector. She has served as the vice president of Social Capital Valuations LLC.[1]

Elections

2025

See also: Fort Bend Independent School District, Texas, elections (2025)

General election

General election for Fort Bend Independent School District, Position 7

Angie Wierzbicki defeated Cheryl Buford and Allison Drew in the general election for Fort Bend Independent School District, Position 7 on May 3, 2025.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Angie Wierzbicki
Angie Wierzbicki (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
41.7
 
8,709
Image of Cheryl Buford
Cheryl Buford (Nonpartisan)
 
37.3
 
7,774
Image of Allison Drew
Allison Drew (Nonpartisan)
 
21.0
 
4,377

Total votes: 20,860
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Endorsements

Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Buford in this election.

2023

See also: Fort Bend Independent School District, Texas, elections (2023)

General election

General election for Fort Bend Independent School District, Position 4

Incumbent Shirley Rose-Gilliam defeated Cheryl Buford in the general election for Fort Bend Independent School District, Position 4 on May 6, 2023.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Shirley Rose-Gilliam
Shirley Rose-Gilliam (Nonpartisan)
 
51.8
 
8,568
Image of Cheryl Buford
Cheryl Buford (Nonpartisan)
 
48.2
 
7,959

Total votes: 16,527
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2019

See also: Fairfax County Public Schools, Virginia, elections (2019)

General election

General election for Fairfax County Public Schools, At-large (3 seats)

The following candidates ran in the general election for Fairfax County Public Schools, At-large on November 5, 2019.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Karen Keys-Gamarra
Karen Keys-Gamarra (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
22.2
 
179,258
Image of Abrar Omeish
Abrar Omeish (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
20.0
 
161,258
Image of Rachna Heizer
Rachna Heizer (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
19.4
 
156,397
Image of Cheryl Buford
Cheryl Buford (Nonpartisan)
 
13.9
 
112,108
Image of Priscilla DeStefano
Priscilla DeStefano (Nonpartisan)
 
13.5
 
108,708
Image of Vinson Palathingal
Vinson Palathingal (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
10.8
 
86,751
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.3
 
2,457

Total votes: 806,937
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

2017

See also: Virginia House of Delegates elections, 2017

General election

Elections for the Virginia House of Delegates took place in 2017. All 100 house seats were up for election. The general election took place on November 7, 2017. A primary election took place on June 13, 2017. The filing deadline for primary election candidates was March 30, 2017. The filing deadline for non-party candidates and candidates nominated by methods other than a primary was June 13, 2017.[2] Incumbent Kathleen J. Murphy (D) defeated Cheryl Buford (R) in the Virginia House of Delegates District 34 general election.[3]

Virginia House of Delegates, District 34 General Election, 2017
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Kathleen J. Murphy Incumbent 60.95% 20,522
     Republican Cheryl Buford 39.05% 13,146
Total Votes 33,668
Source: Virginia Department of Elections
Races we watched
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Ballotpedia identified 13 races to watch in the Virginia House of Delegates 2017 elections: four Democratic seats and nine Republican seats. Based on analysis of these districts' electoral histories, these races had the potential to be more competitive than other races and could possibly have led to shifts in a chamber's partisan balance.

This district was a Race to Watch because the incumbent won less than 55 percent of the vote in 2015. District 34 was competitive in elections from 2013 to 2015. Incumbent Kathleen J. Murphy (D) was first elected to the seat in a 2015 special election, winning by a margin of 2.6 percent. She won re-election in the 2015 general election with 50.4 percent of the vote, defeating her special election opponent Craig A. Parisot (R) again by a margin of 0.6 percent. She first ran for the seat in 2013 and was defeated by incumbent Barbara Comstock (R) by 1.4 points. District 34 was one of 51 Virginia House districts that Democrat Hillary Clinton won in the 2016 presidential election. Clinton carried District 34 by 21.6 points. Democrat Barack Obama won the seat in the 2012 presidential election by 0.5 points. As of 2017, District 34 covered parts of Fairfax County and parts of Loudoun County.

Democratic primary election

Incumbent Kathleen J. Murphy ran unopposed in the Virginia House of Delegates District 34 Democratic primary.[4]

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Virginia House of Delegates, District 34 Democratic Primary, 2017
Candidate
Green check mark transparent.png Kathleen J. Murphy Incumbent

Republican primary election

Cheryl Buford ran unopposed in the Virginia House of Delegates District 34 Republican primary.[5]

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Virginia House of Delegates, District 34 Republican Primary, 2017
Candidate
Green check mark transparent.png Cheryl Buford

Campaign themes

2025

Ballotpedia survey responses

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2023

Cheryl Buford did not complete Ballotpedia's 2023 Candidate Connection survey.

2019

Cheryl Buford did not complete Ballotpedia's 2019 Candidate Connection survey.

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