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Diana Craighead
Diana Craighead is a member of the Long Beach Unified School District school board in California, representing District 5. She assumed office in 2014. Her current term ends on December 11, 2026.
Craighead won re-election to the Long Beach Unified School District school board to represent District 5 in California outright in the primary on June 7, 2022, after the general election was canceled.
Elections
2022
See also: Long Beach Unified School District, California, elections (2022)
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Long Beach Unified School District school board District 5
Incumbent Diana Craighead won election outright against Melissa Pittscutler in the primary for Long Beach Unified School District school board District 5 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Diana Craighead (Nonpartisan) | 62.4 | 14,046 |
| Melissa Pittscutler (Nonpartisan) | 37.6 | 8,475 | ||
| Total votes: 22,521 | |||
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2018
Results
General election
The general election was canceled. Diana Craighead (Nonpartisan) won without appearing on the ballot.
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Cathrin Sargent (Nonpartisan)
2014
Diana F. Craighead ran unopposed to keep the District 5 seat in the general election on April 8, 2014.
Results
Craighead was unopposed and won the District 5 seat by default without appearing on the ballot.[1]
Funding
At the time of this election, the Los Angeles Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk did not publish school board candidate campaign finance reports online. Ballotpedia staffers requested this information, but the only free method of viewing the files was at their office.
The Los Angeles Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk targeted the end of 2018 to make school board candidate campaign finance reports available online for free. From that point forward, Ballotpedia began including campaign finance data for Los Angeles County school board candidates.[2][3][4]
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify any official endorsements for Craighead in the election.
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Diana Craighead did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
2014
Craighead published a campaign statement with The Press-Telegram:
| “ | As a longtime Long Beach resident, I have a vested interest in the success of our school district and the quality of our community. I am running for District 5 of the Long Beach Unified School District Board of Education to help improve a school district emerging from a difficult economic time for schools statewide. We must continue to provide our students an environment where they can learn, grow and prepare for success in college and careers.[5] | ” |
| —Diana Craighead (2014)[6] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Long Beach, California, "Long Beach Primary Nominating Election," accessed June 17, 2014
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Campaign Finance Reports," accessed July 2, 2014
- ↑ Daniel Anderson, “Email communication with Brenda Duran, Los Angeles County Public Information Officer," October 7, 2016
- ↑ Abbey Smith, “Email communication with Brenda Duran, Los Angeles County Public Information Officer," January 2, 2018
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ The Press-Telegram, "Common Core, Local Control Funding Formula emerge as key factors in Long Beach school board race," March 23, 2014
