Mike Hutchinson (California)
2023 - Present
2027
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Mike Hutchinson is a member of the Oakland Unified Board of Education in California, representing District 4. He assumed office on March 22, 2023. His current term ends on January 11, 2027.
Hutchinson ran for re-election to the Oakland Unified Board of Education to represent District 4 in California. He won in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Biography
Hutchinson was born and raised in Oakland. He has worked and volunteered in the Oakland Unified School District for over 25 years. Hutchinson earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Oakland Unified School District, California, elections (2022)
General election
General election for Oakland Unified Board of Education District 4
The ranked-choice voting election was won by Mike Hutchinson in round 2 . The results of Round are displayed below. To see the results of other rounds, use the dropdown menu above to select a round and the table will update.
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Total votes: 26,432 |
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2020
See also: Oakland Unified School District, California, elections (2020)
General election
General election for Oakland Unified Board of Education District 5
The ranked-choice voting election was won by Mike Hutchinson in round 3 . The results of Round are displayed below. To see the results of other rounds, use the dropdown menu above to select a round and the table will update.
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Total votes: 16,916 |
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2016
Four of the seven seats on the Oakland Unified School District Board of Education were up for by-district general election on November 8, 2016. In her bid for re-election to District 1, incumbent Jody London defeated challenger Don Macleay. District 3 incumbent Jumoke Hinton Hodge also won re-election, defeating challengers Benjamin Lang, Lucky Narain, and Kharyshi Wiginton. The District 5 race featured incumbent Roseann Torres and challengers Mike Hassid, Mike Hutchinson, and Huber Trenado, and Torres won re-election to the seat. In District 7, incumbent James Harris defeated challenger Chris Jackson to win another term on the board.[2][3]
Ranked-choice voting was used to determine the final election results for the District 3 and 5 races. To learn more about this process, click here.[4][5]
Results
Ranked-choice voting was used to determine the winner of this race. That method was triggered when no candidate received a majority of the votes cast. The initial results of the election before ranked-choice voting was implemented can be found below.
This is the final round of voting. To view previous rounds, click the [show] button next to that round.
| Oakland Unified School District, District 5 General Election, 4-year term, 2016, Final Round |
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Transfer |
| Roseann Torres - Most votes | 51.1% | 6,277 | 0 |
| Huber Trenado - Eliminated | 48.9% | 6,009 | 0 |
| Mike Hutchinson | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Mike Hassid | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Write-in votes | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Exhausted | 1,009 | 0 | |
| Total Votes | 13,295 | 0 | |
| Note: Negative numbers in the transfer total are due to exhaustion by overvotes. | |||
| Oakland Unified School District, District 5 General Election, 4-year term, 2016, Round 3 |
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Transfer |
| Roseann Torres - Most votes | 39.8% | 5,150 | 1,127 |
| Huber Trenado | 42.7% | 5,525 | 484 |
| Mike Hutchinson - Eliminated | 17.6% | 2,275 | −2,275 |
| Mike Hassid | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Write-in votes | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Exhausted | 351 | 658 | |
| Total Votes | 13,301 | −6 | |
| Note: Negative numbers in the transfer total are due to exhaustion by overvotes. | |||
| Oakland Unified School District, District 5 General Election, 4-year term, 2016, Round 2 |
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Transfer |
| Roseann Torres - Most votes | 36% | 4,786 | 364 |
| Huber Trenado | 37.1% | 4,941 | 584 |
| Mike Hutchinson | 15.9% | 2,122 | 153 |
| Mike Hassid - Eliminated | 10.9% | 1,456 | −1,456 |
| Write-in votes | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Exhausted | 0 | 351 | |
| Total Votes | 13,305 | −4 | |
| Note: Negative numbers in the transfer total are due to exhaustion by overvotes. | |||
This is the first round of voting. To view subsequent rounds, click the [show] button next to that round.
| Oakland Unified School District, District 5 General Election, 4-year term, 2016, Round 1 |
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Transfer |
| Roseann Torres - Most votes | 36% | 4,786 | 0 |
| Huber Trenado | 37.1% | 4,941 | 0 |
| Mike Hutchinson | 15.9% | 2,122 | 0 |
| Mike Hassid | 10.9% | 1,456 | 0 |
| Write-in votes - Eliminated | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Exhausted | 0 | 0 | |
| Total Votes | 13,305 | 0 | |
| Note: Negative numbers in the transfer total are due to exhaustion by overvotes. | |||
| Oakland Unified School District, District 5 General Election, 4-year term, 2016 |
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Huber Trenado |
36.95% | 4,875 |
| Roseann Torres Incumbent | 35.62% | 4,699 |
| Mike Hutchinson | 15.74% | 2,076 |
| Mike Hassid | 10.72% | 1,414 |
| Write-in votes | 0.98% | 129 |
| Total Votes | 13,193 | |
| Source: General Election ( Certified Results) - November 08, 2016," accessed November 30, 2016 | ||
Funding
Hutchinson reported no contributions or expenditures to the Oakland City Clerk in the election.[6]
Endorsements
Hutchinson was endorsed by the following organizations:[7][8]
- Oakland Green Party
- Parents Unified for Public Schools
- John George Democratic Club
- Oakland Education Association
- Oakland Justice Coalition
- Alameda County Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO
- SEIU 1021
- National Union Healthcare Workers
- Block By Block Organizing Network
2012
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
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| Nonpartisan | Roseann Torres |
54.4% | 5,973 | |
| Nonpartisan | Mike Hutchinson | 44.9% | 4,932 | |
| Nonpartisan | Write-in votes | 0.7% | 79 | |
| Total Votes | 10,984 | |||
| Source: Alameda County Registrar of Voters, "Certified Final Results: General Election November 6, 2012," accessed July 29, 2014 | ||||
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Mike Hutchinson did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
2020
Mike Hutchinson did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
2016
Hutchinson highlighted the following statement on his campaign website:
| “ | I am proud to say that I was born, raised, and educated in Oakland. I attended Crocker Highlands, McChesney Jr. High, Oakland, and Skyline High Schools before going on to UC Berkeley. I have worked and volunteered in Oakland’s public schools and with Oakland’s youth for the past 25 years. I have a passion for the education and betterment of Oakland’s youth and I highly value the role public education plays in individual lives and healthy communities. I am deeply concerned about the state of public education in Oakland. We have a chance with November’s elections to chart a new course for our school district. I will work to end the privatization of our schools, facilitate honest community engagement and reprioritize the budget. I strongly believe that every child has the right to a high quality public education. Vote Mike Hutchinson for quality, public, neighborhood schools.[9] | ” |
| —Mike Hutchinson (2016)[1] | ||
Noteworthy events
Tallying error in Oakland, Calif., led to inaccurate election results (2022)
On March 6, 2023, Judge Brad Seligman of the Alameda County Superior Court declared Mike Hutchinson the official winner of the school director election race in District 4 of the Oakland Unified School District in California, saying, “Errors were made sufficient to change the result of the election...contestant Hutchinson received a majority of the votes cast and accordingly, is declared the winner of the Nov. 8, 2022 general municipal election.”[10]
On December 28, 2022, the Alameda County Registrar of Voters acknowledged in a press release that the initial certified results for this election were incorrect. Although Nick Resnick was initially certified as the winner, Hutchinson, who originally finished third, was later told by election officials that he won: "Without being cynical, I now believe in holiday miracles. So it was very shocking to wake up this morning and receive a phone call at 10:30 a.m. from the Alameda County head of elections informing me that I had actually won the election."[11]
According to the press release from the Alameda County Registrar of Voters:
| “ | The ROV learned that its RCV tally system was not configured properly for the November 2022 General Election. It should have been configured to advance ballots to the next ranking immediately when no candidate was selected for a particular round. ... After reviewing the election data and applying the correct configuration, the ROV learned that only one outcome was affected: Oakland School Director, District 4, for the Oakland Unified School District. No other result for any RCV election in any jurisdiction was changed.[11][9] | ” |
California Ranked Choice Voting Coalition and FairVote, two organizations that supported the use of ranked-choice voting in California, discovered the error while auditing the election results. They found that county officials used the wrong method to tally votes that did not include a first choice candidate. Sean Dugar, consulting executive director of the California Ranked Choice Voting Coalition, said, "In Alameda County, the correct setting should have advanced the second choice to become the first choice ... The algorithm and the election officials almost always get it right. In this instance, it was simply a button that was left checked in the menu option for the algorithm."[12][11]
Resnick was officially sworn into the position of District 4 Oakland school director on January 9, 2023.[13] His attorney initially responded to the Alameda County Registrar of Voters, saying, “We are not aware of any legal authority... which allows the registrar’s office to retabulate election results or take any other actions vis-a-vis the results of an election after it completes the official canvass and the results are certified by the local governing body.”[14]
Hutchinson filed a petition in Alameda County Superior Court on December 29, 2022, asking a judge to overrule the prior certification and name him the official winner. [15] Resnick resigned from office on February 21, 2023, saying in a statement on his website that a prolonged legal fight was not “what’s best for this community and I don’t think that’s going to help get our schools where they need to go.”[10]
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mike Hutchinson for Oakland School Board District 5, "About," accessed October 4, 2016
- ↑ East Bay Citizen, "2016 East Bay Candidates List (Official for November)," August 19, 2016
- ↑ Alameda County Registrar of Voters, "General Election (Certified Results) - November 08, 2016," accessed November 30, 2016
- ↑ Alameda County Registrar of Voters, "Ranked-Choice Voting Accumulated Results - School Director, District 5 - Oakland," accessed January 11, 2017
- ↑ Alameda County Registrar of Voters, "Ranked-Choice Voting Accumulated Results - School Director, District 3 - Oakland," accessed January 11, 2017
- ↑ Oakland City Clerk, "City of Oakland Public Portal for Campaign Finance Disclosure," accessed March 7, 2017
- ↑ Mike Hutchinson for Oakland School Board District 5, "Endorsements," accessed September 29, 2016
- ↑ Parents Unified for Public Schools, "Endorsements," accessed October 12, 2016
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 The Oaklandside, "Judge declares Mike Hutchinson winner of OUSD school board race," March 7, 2023
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 ABC 7 News, "Alameda Co. finds error in ranked-choice voting system, investigating Oakland school board race," December 29, 2022
- ↑ ABC 7 News, "Error in ballot counting in Alameda Co. changes outcome in Oakland school board race," December 29, 2022
- ↑ The Oaklandside, "Oakland school board inauguration overshadowed by election mishap," January 9, 2023
- ↑ San Francisco Chronicle, "Alameda County election error that flipped one Oakland race heads to courts," January 4, 2023
- ↑ Pleasanton Weekly, "Trial set for next month to determine winner of Oakland school board race following county registrar error," February 12, 2023
| 2016 Oakland Unified School District Elections | |
| Alameda County, California | |
| Election date: | November 8, 2016 |
| Candidates: | District 1: • Incumbent, Jody London • Don Macleay District 3: • Incumbent, Jumoke Hinton Hodge • Benjamin Lang • Lucky Narain • Kharyshi Wiginton District 5: • Incumbent, Roseann Torres • Mike Hassid • Mike Hutchinson • Huber Trenado District 7: • Incumbent, James Harris • Chris Jackson |
| Important information: | What was at stake? • Additional elections on the ballot • Key deadlines |
