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Karen Yelsey

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Karen Yelsey
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Prior offices
Newport-Mesa Unified Board of Education Trustee Area 4
Successor: Lisa Pearson

Karen Yelsey was a member of the Newport-Mesa Unified Board of Education in California, representing Trustee Area 4. Yelsey left office on December 9, 2022.

Yelsey ran for re-election to the Newport-Mesa Unified Board of Education to represent Trustee Area 4 in California. Yelsey won in the general election on November 6, 2018.

Elections

2018

See also: Newport-Mesa Unified School District elections (2018)

General election

General election for Newport-Mesa Unified Board of Education Trustee Area 4

Incumbent Karen Yelsey defeated Gina Nick in the general election for Newport-Mesa Unified Board of Education Trustee Area 4 on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Karen Yelsey
Karen Yelsey (Nonpartisan)
 
68.5
 
7,706
Gina Nick (Nonpartisan)
 
31.5
 
3,538

Total votes: 11,244
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2014

See also: Newport-Mesa Unified School District elections (2014)

The election in Newport-Mesa Unified featured five seats up for general election on November 4, 2014. There was no primary election.

Vicki Snell, appointed to the Trustee Area 1 seat in 2014, was up for election to a two-year term. Incumbents Karen Yelsey, Judy A. Franco and Walt Davenport from Trustee Areas 4, 5 and 7, respectively, were up for re-election to four-year terms. No incumbents filed for the Trustee Area 2 seat.

Yelsey and Franco ran unopposed and won re-election. Davenport defeated challengers Lisa Manfredi and Fidel Mora. The race for the open Trustee Area 2 seat featured candidates Charlene Metoyer and Michael B. Collier. Metoyer defeated Collier for the seat. In Trustee Area 1, Snell defeated challenger Steve Smith.

Results

This election was canceled due to lack of opposition. Trustee Area 4 incumbent Karen Yelsey won re-election by default.[1]

Funding

The Orange County Registrar of Voters does not publish and freely disclose school board candidate campaign finance reports that were filed by paper in their office. Ballotpedia staffers directly requested this information, but the municipal office refused those requests to make that information public.

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