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David Jordan (Missouri)
David Jordan ran for election for an at-large seat of the St. Joseph School District Board of Education in Missouri. Jordan lost in the general election on April 6, 2021.
Elections
2021
See also: St. Joseph School District, Missouri, elections (2021)
General election
General election for St. Joseph School District school board, At-large (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for St. Joseph School District school board, At-large on April 6, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Kenneth Reeder (Nonpartisan) | 14.5 | 4,982 | |
| ✔ |  | David Foster (Nonpartisan) | 14.2 | 4,876 |
| ✔ | LaTonya Williams (Nonpartisan) | 12.2 | 4,200 | |
| Colby Oyerly (Nonpartisan) | 11.6 | 3,994 | ||
 | Lute Atieh (Nonpartisan) | 11.4 | 3,921 | |
| David Jordan (Nonpartisan) | 11.2 | 3,864 | ||
 | Larry Koch (Nonpartisan) | 9.5 | 3,267 | |
| Rick Gehring (Nonpartisan) | 9.1 | 3,151 | ||
| Michelle Traster (Nonpartisan) (Write-in) | 5.1 | 1,754 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.3 | 437 | ||
| Total votes: 34,446 | |||
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2018
Three seats on the St. Joseph School District school board in Missouri were up for general election on April 3, 2018. The seats of Larry Koch, Martin Rucker, and Dennis Snethen were up for grabs in this election. Koch was the only incumbent who filed for re-election and faced challengers Lute Atieh, Aaron Duncan, Lorrie Lynn Hollis, David Jordan, Kenneth Reeder, and Seth Wright.[1]
The three winners of this race were sworn in shortly before the contract of the district's new superintendent commences. The school board announced Dr. Doug Van Zyl as the district's new superintendent on February 1, 2018, following Dr. Robert Newhart's announcement in late 2017 that he would retire as the district's superintendent at the end of the 2017-2018 school year.
Results
General election
General election for St. Joseph School District school board, At-large (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for St. Joseph School District school board, At-large on April 3, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Seth Wright (Nonpartisan) | 22.0 | 6,491 |
| ✔ | | Lute Atieh (Nonpartisan) | 18.4 | 5,445 |
| ✔ | | Larry Koch (Nonpartisan) | 15.9 | 4,684 |
| David Jordan (Nonpartisan) | 15.4 | 4,563 | ||
| Kenneth Reeder (Nonpartisan) | 11.3 | 3,351 | ||
 | Lorrie Lynn Hollis (Nonpartisan) | 11.3 | 3,336 | |
| Aaron Duncan (Nonpartisan) | 5.3 | 1,571 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.4 | 104 | ||
| Total votes: 29,545 | |||
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Campaign themes
2021
Ballotpedia survey responses
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2018
Jordan said he was running for the board for three reasons: to ensure the community's students receive the best education they can, to give a good work environment to staff and rebuild morale, and to restore the trust among the community's taxpayers.
Jordan said the most important issues the district faced were funding, what he called "right-sizing" the district from the perspective of facilities, and rebuilding the community's trust. He pointed to his experience working as a teacher in the district as what set him apart from the other candidates.[2]
Recent news
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See also
2021 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 'Buchanan County Board of Elections, "April 3, 2018 - General Municipal," accessed April 5, 2018
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