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Karen Yelsey
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
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 | ||
| ✔ |  | Karen Yelsey (Nonpartisan) | 68.5 | 7,706 |
| Gina Nick (Nonpartisan) | 31.5 | 3,538 | ||
| Total votes: 11,244 | |||
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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.
See also
- Newport-Mesa Unified School District, California
- Newport-Mesa Unified School District elections (2018)
- Newport-Mesa Unified School District elections (2014)
External links
Footnotes
| Newport-Mesa Unified School District elections in 2018 | |
| Orange County, California | |
| Election date: | November 6, 2018 |
| Important information: | What was at stake? |
