Linda Lobatos
Linda Lobatos ran for election to the Anaheim Union High Board of Trustees to represent Trustee Area 1 in California. Lobatos lost in the general election on November 6, 2018.
[1] Lobatos was a candidate for District 3 on the Anaheim City Council in California. Although Anaheim's city council elections are officially nonpartisan, Lobatos is known to be affiliated with the Democratic Party.[2] She was defeated in the general election on November 8, 2016.
District 3 was a new district in 2016. In 2014, voters approved a ballot measure to expand the Anaheim City Council in 2016 from four council members to six council members.[3] Starting with the 2016 elections, city council members were also selected in by-district elections rather than at-large elections.[3]
Lobatos was a 2014 candidate for the Trustee Area 1 seat on the Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees in California.[4] She won 22 percent of the vote in that race, placing third of three candidates.[4]
Biography
Lobatos owns a janitorial services business in Anaheim.[5][6] A parent and community liaison in the Anaheim Union High School District, she is a regular participant in school board meetings.[7][8]
Elections
2018
General election
General election for Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees Trustee Area 1
Incumbent Al Jabbar defeated Linda Lobatos in the general election for Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees Trustee Area 1 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Al Jabbar (Nonpartisan) | 61.5 | 8,284 |
 | Linda Lobatos (Nonpartisan) | 38.5 | 5,191 | |
| Total votes: 13,475 | |||
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2016
The city of Anaheim, California, held elections for city council on November 8, 2016. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was August 12, 2016. Because of a switch from at-large to by-district elections, four of the six city council seats were up for election.[9][10] Jose F. Moreno defeated incumbent Jordan Brandman, Robert Nelson, Jennifer Rivera and Linda Lobatos defeated in the Anaheim City Council District 3 general election.[1]
| Anaheim City Council, District 3 General Election, 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Jose F. Moreno |
35.96% | 4,647 |
| Jordan Brandman Incumbent | 35.40% | 4,575 |
| Robert Nelson | 14.76% | 1,908 |
| Jennifer Rivera | 7.55% | 976 |
| Linda Lobatos | 6.32% | 817 |
| Total Votes | 12,923 | |
| Source: Orange County Elections, "Official Results for Election," accessed December 7, 2016 | ||
2014
Three seats on the Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees were up for general election on November 4, 2014. In the Trustee Area 1 race, incumbent Al Jabbar faced challengers Maureen Christensen and Linda Lobatos and won re-election. The Trustee Area 2 race featured incumbent Annemarie Randle-Trejo and challengers Eleazar Elizondo, Thomas "Hoagy" Holguin and Roberto "Robert" Baeza. Randle-Trejo defeated her challengers and won re-election to the board. Anna L. Piercy, incumbent from Trustee Area 5, ran unopposed and won re-election by default.
This was the first time board members were elected by trustee area. Prior to 2014, the Anaheim Union High School District elected its members in at-large elections.
Results
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonpartisan | Al Jabbar Incumbent |
49.4% | 3,365 | |
| Nonpartisan | Maureen Christensen | 28.2% | 1,921 | |
| Nonpartisan | Linda Lobatos | 22.3% | 1,521 | |
| Total Votes | 6,807 | |||
| Source: Orange County Registrar of Voters, "General Election Results," accessed December 19, 2014 | ||||
Funding
The Orange County Registrar of Voters does not publish or freely disclose school board candidate campaign finance reports that were filed on paper in their office. Ballotpedia staffers directly requested this information, but the municipal office declined to make the information public.
See also
- Anaheim Union High School District, California
- Anaheim Union High School District elections (2018)
- Anaheim, California
- Municipal elections in Anaheim, California (2016)
- United States municipal elections, 2016
External links
- Search Google News for this topic
- Anaheim Union High School District
- City of Anaheim
- Campaign Facebook page
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Orange County Registrar of Voters, "Contest/Candidate Proof List," accessed October 1, 2018 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "list" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Anaheim Blog, "UPDATED: Final List of Anaheim City Council Candidates," August 15, 2016
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 City of Anaheim, "Frequently Asked Questions," accessed August 31, 2016
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Orange County Registrar of Voters, "Orange County General Election 2014," accessed September 2, 2016
- ↑ YouTube, "Linda Lobatos Is a Candidate for Anaheim City Council District 3, 2016," August 6, 2016
- ↑ Voice of OC, "Central OC Cities Set for Historic November Election," August 16, 2016
- ↑ The Orange County Register, "Ballots Set for Districts Serving Anaheim Students," August 28, 2014
- ↑ The Other Anaheim, "Father Arturo Ferreras, Linda Lobatos Round Out Early Anaheim City Council Candidates," March 18, 2016
- ↑ City of Anaheim, "Elections 2016," accessed March 11, 2016
- ↑ KPCC, "5 changes for Anaheim now that district elections are coming," February 10, 2016
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