Keith Giles
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2015 - Present
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Keith Giles is the Trustee Area 1 representative on the Lancaster Board of Education in California. He was elected to his current term on the board in the general election on November 3, 2015.[1][2]
Giles previously served on the board from 2001 to 2013. He lost his bid to retain his seat in the general election held on November 5, 2013, but was re-elected to the board in 2015.[1][3]
Biography
Keith Giles is a business administrator for the Antelope Valley Produce Company. He and his wife have five children and four grandchildren.
Elections
2015
Opposition
Two of the five seats on the Lancaster School District Board of Education were up for general election on November 3, 2015. The election was held by district.[4][5] The seats of incumbents Merle "Mel" Kleven and John Lee Miller from Trustee Areas 1 and 3, respectively, were on the ballot.[6]
Kleven ran against five challengers: Debra Cook-Lewis, Susan Corso, Cheryl Gayfield, Keith Giles and George Chris Zelazo. Giles won the seat. Miller did not file to run for the Trustee Area 3 seat. The race featured five candidates: William "Bill" Buck, Antoine Hawkins, Shannon Renee McDonald, Chuck Simons and Gregory Tepe. Tepe won the election.[7][1]
Kevin Fryer and Brett Sinclair Hitchcock originally filed to run for the Trustee Area 1 seat and Jayson Stonne filed for the Trustee Area 3 seat, but all three of them withdrew from the race.[8]
Results
| Lancaster School District, Trustee Area 1, General Election, 2015 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Keith Giles |
27.2% | 215 |
| Merle "Mel" Kleven Incumbent | 22.8% | 180 |
| Susan Corso | 19.9% | 157 |
| Debra Cook-Lewis | 13.6% | 107 |
| Cheryl Gayfield | 11.2% | 88 |
| George Chris Zelazo | 5.3% | 42 |
| Total Votes | 789 | |
| Source: "Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "NOVEMBER 03, 2015 - LOCAL AND MUNICIPAL CONSOLIDATED ELECTIONS: Final Official Election Results," accessed November 24, 2015 | ||
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.[9][10][11]
The first campaign finance reporting deadline was September 24, 2015, and the second one was October 22, 2015. If candidates raised or spent more than $1,000 from a single source, including their own funds, between August 5, 2015, and November 2, 2015, they had to file a campaign finance report within 24 hours.[12]
If you have any information regarding the campaign finance disclosures in this race, please contact the school board elections team at editor@ballotpedia.org.
Endorsements
Giles received no official endorsements in this election.
2013
Keith Giles ran against five other candidates, including incumbents Keith Giles and Diane V. Grooms, for three seats in the general election held on November 5, 2013.[13]
Results
| Lancaster School District Board of Education, At-large General Election, 2013 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan | Chris Grado Incumbent |
22.1% | 2,596 | |
| Nonpartisan | Sandy Price |
21.1% | 2,484 | |
| Nonpartisan | Diane V. Grooms Incumbent |
18.6% | 2,193 | |
| Nonpartisan | Keith Giles Incumbent | 17% | 1,996 | |
| Nonpartisan | William "Bill" Buck | 13.9% | 1,640 | |
| Nonpartisan | John Michael Rosario | 7.2% | 850 | |
| Total Votes | 11,759 | |||
| Source: Los Angeles County Clerk, "NOVEMBER 5, 2013 - LOCAL & MUNI CONSOLIDATED ELECTION Final Official Election Returns" accessed December 13, 2013 | ||||
Funding
Giles did not report any contributions or expenditures to the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk in the election.
Endorsements
Giles did not receive any official endorsements for his campaign.
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Recent news
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See also
- Lancaster School District, California
- Lancaster School District, California elections (2015)
- Lancaster School District elections (2013)
- Incumbency no guarantee of success in Nov. 3 school board elections (November 6, 2015)
- What happened in Nov.'s top board elections? (November 4, 2015)
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "NOVEMBER 03, 2015 - LOCAL AND MUNICIPAL CONSOLIDATED ELECTIONS: Semi-Final Official Election Returns," accessed November 5, 2015
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Candidate List: Local And Municipal Consolidated Elections - 11/3/2015," accessed August 14, 2015
- ↑ Los Angeles County Clerk, "NOVEMBER 5, 2013 - LOCAL & MUNI CONSOLIDATED ELECTION Final Official Election Returns" accessed December 13, 2013
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, “2015 Scheduled Elections,” accessed January 27, 2015
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, “Running for Office,” accessed January 27, 2015
- ↑ Lancaster School District, "Meet the Board," accessed January 27, 2015
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Candidate List: Local And Municipal Consolidated Elections - 11/3/2015," accessed August 14, 2015
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Local and Municipal Consolidated Elections: Final List of Qualified Candidates to Appear on the Ballot," accessed October 28, 2015
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Fair Political Practices Commission, "Filing Schedule for Candidates and Controlled Committees for Local Office Being Voted on November 3, 2015," accessed August 5, 2015
- ↑ La Vote.net, "LOCAL AND MUNICIPAL CONSOLIDATED ELECTIONS - 11/5/2013" accessed September 30, 2013
| 2015 Lancaster School District Elections | |
| Los Angeles County, California | |
| Election date: | November 3, 2015 |
| Candidates: | Trustee Area 1: • Incumbent, Merle "Mel" Kleven • Debra Cook-Lewis • Susan Corso • Cheryl Gayfield • Keith Giles • George Chris Zelazo Trustee Area 3: • William "Bill" Buck • Antoine Hawkins • Shannon Renee McDonald • Chuck Simons • Gregory Tepe |
| Important information: | What was at stake? • Key deadlines • Additional elections on the ballot |
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