Coppell Independent School District elections (2018)

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Coppell Independent School District elections

General election date
May 5, 2018
Enrollment ('15-'16)
11,881 students

Three seats on the Coppell Independent School District school board in Texas were up for election on May 5, 2018. Two seats were up for regular election and one seat was up for special election for an unexpired term. Manish Sethi defeated Balki Chamkura in the special election for Place 2. Place 6 incumbent Judy Barbo did not file for re-election, and candidate Nichole Bentley defeated Dan Koller and Lynne Ryan to win the seat. Incumbent Tracy Fisher won re-election to Place 7 after facing challenger Ronald Hansen.

Elections

Place 2 (Special election)

General election

General election for Coppell Independent School District, Place 2

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Manish Sethi
Manish Sethi (Nonpartisan)
 
67.8
 
3,103
Image of Balki Chamkura
Balki Chamkura (Nonpartisan)
 
32.2
 
1,477

Total votes: 4,580
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Place 6

General election

General election for Coppell Independent School District, Place 6

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Nichole Bentley
Nichole Bentley (Nonpartisan)
 
60.7
 
2,887
Lynne Ryan (Nonpartisan)
 
23.4
 
1,114
Image of Dan Koller
Dan Koller (Nonpartisan)
 
15.9
 
758

Total votes: 4,759
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Place 7

General election

General election for Coppell Independent School District, Place 7

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Tracy Fisher
Tracy Fisher (Nonpartisan)
 
62.8
 
3,101
Image of Ronald Hansen
Ronald Hansen (Nonpartisan)
 
37.2
 
1,840

Total votes: 4,941
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Additional elections on the ballot

See also: Texas elections, 2018

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About the district

See also: Coppell Independent School District, Texas

The Coppell Independent School District is located in Texas. The district was the 98th-largest school district in the state in the 2014–2015 school year and served 11,570 students.[1]


Pivot Counties

See also: Pivot Counties by state

One of 254 Texas counties—0.4 percent—is a Pivot County. 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.

Counties won by Trump in 2016 and Obama in 2012 and 2008
County Trump margin of victory in 2016 Obama margin of victory in 2012 Obama margin of victory in 2008
Jefferson County, Texas 0.48% 1.61% 2.25%

In the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump (R) won Texas with 52.2 percent of the vote. Hillary Clinton (D) received 43.2 percent. In presidential elections between 1900 and 2016, Texas cast votes for the winning presidential candidate 66.7 percent of the time. In that same time frame, Texas supported Democratic candidates slightly more often than Republicans, 53.3 to 46.7 percent. The state, however, favored Republicans in every presidential election between 2000 and 2016.

Presidential results by legislative district

The following table details results of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections by state House districts in Texas. 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. The "Party Control" column notes which party held that seat heading into the 2018 general election. Data on the results of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections broken down by state legislative districts was compiled by Daily Kos.[2][3]

In 2012, Barack Obama (D) won 54 out of 150 state House districts in Texas with an average margin of victory of 37.4 points. In 2016, Hillary Clinton (D) won 65 out of 150 state House districts in Texas with an average margin of victory of 36.4 points. Clinton won 10 districts controlled by Republicans heading into the 2018 elections.
In 2012, Mitt Romney (R) won 96 out of 150 state House districts in Texas with an average margin of victory of 36.2 points. In 2016, Donald Trump (R) won 85 out of 150 state House districts in Texas with an average margin of victory of 34.5 points.


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