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Cruz Ochoa
Cruz Ochoa is a member of the Ysleta Independent School District school board in Texas, representing District 5. He assumed office in 2017. His current term ends in 2029.
Ochoa won re-election to the Ysleta Independent School District school board to represent District 5 in Texas outright after the general election on May 3, 2025, was canceled.
Elections
2025
See also: Ysleta Independent School District, Texas, elections (2025)
General election
The general election was canceled. Cruz Ochoa (Nonpartisan) won without appearing on the ballot.
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Gus Bujanda (Nonpartisan)
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Ochoa in this election.
2021
See also: Ysleta Independent School District, Texas, elections (2021)
General election
The general election was canceled. Cruz Ochoa (Nonpartisan) won without appearing on the ballot.
2017
Four of the seven seats on the Ysleta Independent School District board of trustees in Texas were up for general election on May 6, 2017. In her bid for re-election to the District 1 seat in the general election, incumbent Ana Maria Dueñez faced challengers Carlos Jesus Bustillos and Mitch Brice. Bustillos won election to the seat. Richard Couder ran unopposed and won the open District 3 seat by default. A runoff election for District 5 was held on June 10, 2017, for incumbent Paul Pearson and challenger Cruz Ochoa. They defeated Miguel Payan and Leila Melendez in the general election. Ochoa defeated Pearson in the runoff election to win his first term on the board. No one filed to run as a regular candidate for the District 7 seat. Write-in candidate Kathryn Hairston was appointed to that seat.[1][2][3][4]
Results
| Ysleta Independent School District, District 5 Runoff Election, 4-year term, 2017 |
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|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Cruz Ochoa |
59.66% | 1,090 |
| Paul Pearson Incumbent | 40.34% | 737 |
| Total Votes | 1,827 | |
| Source: El Paso County Elections, "Election Summary Report," accessed August 22, 2017 | ||
| Ysleta Independent School District, District 5 General Election, 4-year term, 2017 |
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|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
| Cruz Ochoa |
35.25% | 688 |
| Paul Pearson Incumbent |
31.71% | 619 |
| Leila Melendez | 26.23% | 512 |
| Miguel Payan | 6.81% | 133 |
| Total Votes | 1,952 | |
| Source: Ysleta Independent School District, "Election Summary Report of the May 6, 2017," accessed May 19, 2017 | ||
Funding
Ochoa reported $631.58 in contributions and $1,362.77 in expenditures to the Ysleta Independent School District, which left his campaign with $731.19 in debt as of April 6, 2017.[5]
Endorsements
Ochoa was endorsed by the Ysleta Teachers Association.[6]
2013
| Ysleta Independent School District, District 5 General Election, 4-year term, 2013 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan | Paul Pearson |
46.2% | 1,123 | |
| Nonpartisan | Cruz Ochoa | 37.6% | 915 | |
| Nonpartisan | Jeff Omspaugh | 16.2% | 394 | |
| Total Votes | 2,432 | |||
| Source: El Paso County Elections, "2013 May Election," accessed April 14, 2015 | ||||
Campaign themes
2025
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Cruz Ochoa did not complete Ballotpedia's 2025 Candidate Connection survey.
2021
Cruz Ochoa did not complete Ballotpedia's 2021 Candidate Connection survey.
See also
2025 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Ysleta Independent School District, "School Board," accessed March 6, 2017
- ↑ El Paso County Elections Department, "Sample Ballot: Ysleta ISD (PDF)," accessed April 12, 2017
- ↑ El Paso County Elections, "May 6, 2017 - Uniform Election Unofficial Final Election Results," accessed May 6, 2017
- ↑ USA Today, "Bustillos unseats incumbent Dueñez in YISD District 1 race," May 7, 2017
- ↑ Ysleta Independent School District, "Current Election May 2017 Uniform Election," accessed May 1, 2017
- ↑ Ysleta Teachers Association, "Ysleta ISD Endorsed Candidates," accessed April 20, 2017
