Esthela Torres De Siegrist
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This article is about Esthela Torres De Siegrist, an at-large member of the El Monte Union High School District board of trustees. For people with a similar name, see Esthela Siegrist.
Esthela Torres De Siegrist is the former at-large representative on the El Monte Union High School District school board in California. First elected in 2013, Torres De Siegrist lost a re-election campaign in the at-large general election on November 7, 2017.
Torres De Siegrist previously served on the board from 2007 to 2011.
Biography
Torres De Siegrist earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Mexico and a master's degree from Pepperdine University. She has experience working as a community college professor. Torres De Siegrist served as the president of the American Legion Auxiliary, the Pasadena City College Parent Teacher Association, and the San Gabriel Valley District Women’s Club. Her three children were educated in the district.[1]
Elections
2017
Three of the five seats on the El Monte Union High School District board of trustees in California were up for at-large general election on November 7, 2017.[2] In their bids for re-election, incumbents Esthela Torres De Siegrist and Ricardo Padilla ran against challengers Florencio Briones, David Diaz, Christian Trigueros, and Ron Williams. Padilla won re-election, and Briones and Diaz won the other two seats on the ballot.[3][4]
Results
| El Monte Union High School District, At-large General Election, 4-year terms, 2017 |
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|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 David Diaz |
24.45% | 2,991 |
| Ricardo Padilla Incumbent |
24.04% | 2,940 |
| Florencio Briones |
21.27% | 2,602 |
| Esthela Torres De Siegrist Incumbent | 20.56% | 2,515 |
| Ron Williams | 5.92% | 724 |
| Christian Trigueros | 3.75% | 459 |
| Total Votes | 12,231 | |
| Source: Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Local and Municipal Consolidated Elections November 7, 2017," accessed November 21, 2017 | ||
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.[5][6][7]
2013
Esthela Torres De Siegrist ran against four other candidates for three seats in the general election on November 5, 2013.[8] Maria Elena Talamantes, Esthela Torres De Siegrist, and Ricardo Padilla defeated two challengers for three seats on the El Monte Union High School District Board of Education.
Results
| El Monte Union High School District, At-Large General Election, 4-year term, 2013 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan | Maria Elena Talamantes Incumbent |
26.2% | 3,960 | |
| Nonpartisan | Esthela Torres De Siegrist |
25.1% | 3,782 | |
| Nonpartisan | Ricardo Padilla |
23.6% | 3,559 | |
| Nonpartisan | Florencio Briones | 13.2% | 1,999 | |
| Nonpartisan | Edward Guerrero | 11.9% | 1,788 | |
| Total Votes | 15,088 | |||
| Source: Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Final Official Election Returns" accessed December 12, 2013 | ||||
Funding
At the time of this election, the Los Angeles County 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.[9]
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify any official endorsements for Torres De Siegrist in the election.
2011
| El Monte Union High School District, At-Large General Election, 4-year term, 2011 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan | Juanita M. Gonzales |
30.5% | 4,552 | |
| Nonpartisan | Salvador Ramirez Incumbent |
25.7% | 3,836 | |
| Nonpartisan | Esthela Torres De Siegrist Incumbent | 22.1% | 3,297 | |
| Nonpartisan | Tonson W. Man | 21.7% | 3,246 | |
| Total Votes | 14,931 | |||
| Source: Smart Voter, "Governing Board Member; El Monte Union High School District Voter Information" accessed September 20, 2013 | ||||
2007
| El Monte Union High School District, At-Large General Election, 4-year term, 2007 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan | Esthela Torres De Siegrist |
36.9% | 4,329 | |
| Nonpartisan | Salvador Ramirez |
25.7% | 3,016 | |
| Nonpartisan | Frank Ogaz | 25.4% | 2,981 | |
| Nonpartisan | Laura C. Olvera | 11.9% | 1,394 | |
| Total Votes | 11,720 | |||
| Source: Smart Voter, "Governing Board Member; El Monte Union High School District Voter Information," accessed September 20, 2013 | ||||
Recent news
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See also
- El Monte Union High School District, California
- El Monte Union High School District elections (2017)
- El Monte Union High School District elections (2013)
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Esthela Torres De Siegrist, "Home," accessed August 11, 2014
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registar-Recorder/County Clerk, "List of Offices to Be Filled November 7, 2017," accessed August 1, 2017
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Candidate List: Local And Municipal Consolidated Elections 11/7/2017," accessed September 18, 2017
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Local and Municipal Consolidated Elections," accessed November 8, 2017
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Candidate List," accessed September 20, 2013
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Campaign Disclosure Information," accessed October 7, 2016
| El Monte Union High School District elections in 2017 | |
| Los Angeles County, California | |
| Election date: | November 7, 2017 |
| Candidates: | At-large: • Incumbent, Esthela Torres De Siegrist • Incumbent, Ricardo Padilla • Florencio Briones • David Diaz • Christian Trigueros • Ron Williams |
| Important information: | What was at stake? • Additional elections on the ballot • Key deadlines |
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