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Oklahoma City Public Schools elections (2018)

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Oklahoma City Public Schools elections

General election date
February 13, 2018
Enrollment ('15-'16)
40,823 students

Three seats on the Oklahoma City Public Schools school board in Oklahoma were up for general election on February 13, 2018. Number 4 incumbent Mark Harold Mann was the only candidate to file for that race, and the election was canceled due to lack of opposition. Mann won re-election by default. In her bid for re-election to the Number 4 seat, incumbent Ruth Veales ran against Nichell Braddy-Garcia and Willie Kelley. Jace Kirk was the only candidate to file for the Number 7 race, and the election was canceled due to lack of opposition. Kirk won by default.[1]

Oklahoma held runoff elections on April 3, 2018, for school board races across the state where no candidate received a majority of the vote in the general election.

Elections

Candidates and results

Number 4

Incumbent Mark Harold Mann ran unopposed in the Oklahoma City Public Schools general election.The election was canceled due to lack of opposition. The candidate won election by default.


Oklahoma City Public Schools,
Number 4 General Election, Unexpired term, 2018
Candidates
Green check mark transparent.png Mark Harold Mann Incumbent

Number 5

General election

General election for Oklahoma City Public Schools school board, District 5

Incumbent Ruth Veales defeated Willie Kelley and Nichell Braddy-Garcia in the general election for Oklahoma City Public Schools school board, District 5 on February 13, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Ruth Veales
Ruth Veales (Nonpartisan)
 
58.7
 
965
Willie Kelley (Nonpartisan)
 
26.0
 
428
Nichell Braddy-Garcia (Nonpartisan)
 
15.3
 
252

Total votes: 1,645
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Number 7

Jace Kirk ran unopposed in the Oklahoma City Public Schools general election.The election was canceled due to lack of opposition. The candidate won election by default.


Oklahoma City Public Schools,
Number 7 General Election, 4-year term, 2018
Candidates
Green check mark transparent.png Jace Kirk

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About the district

See also: Oklahoma City Public Schools, Oklahoma

Oklahoma City Public Schools is located in Oklahoma. The district was the largest school district in the state in the 2014–2015 school year and served 41,074 students.[2]


Pivot Counties

See also: Pivot Counties by state

There are no Pivot Counties in Oklahoma. Pivot Counties are counties that voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2008 and 2012 and for Donald Trump (R) in 2016. Altogether, the nation had 206 Pivot Counties, with most being concentrated in upper midwestern and northeastern states.

In the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump (R) won Oklahoma with 65.3 percent of the vote. Hillary Clinton (D) received 28.9 percent. In presidential elections between 1904 and 2016, Oklahoma voted for the winning presidential candidate 72.4 percent of the time. In that same time frame, Oklahoma supported Republican candidates for president more often than Democratic candidates, 65.5 to 34.5 percent. The state favored Republicans in every presidential election between 2000 and 2016.

Presidential results by legislative district

The following table details results of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections by state House districts in Oklahoma. Click [show] to expand the table. The "Obama," "Romney," "Clinton," and "Trump" columns describe the percent of the vote each presidential candidate received in the district. The "2012 Margin" and "2016 Margin" columns describe the margin of victory between the two presidential candidates in those years. The "Party Control" column notes which party held that seat heading into the 2018 general election. Data on the results of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections broken down by state legislative districts was compiled by Daily Kos.[3][4]

In 2012, Barack Obama (D) won 8 out of 101 state House districts in Oklahoma with an average margin of victory of 37.4 points. In 2016, Hillary Clinton (D) won 11 out of 101 state House districts in Oklahoma with an average margin of victory of 27.7 points. Clinton won one district controlled by a Republican heading into the 2018 elections.
In 2012, Mitt Romney (R) won 93 out of 101 state House districts in Oklahoma with an average margin of victory of 37.3 points. In 2016, Donald Trump (R) won 90 out of 101 state House districts in Oklahoma with an average margin of victory of 42.2 points. Trump won 18 districts controlled by Democrats heading into the 2018 elections.


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See also

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