Ralph Merletti
Ralph Merletti ran for election to the Los Rios Community College District to represent Trustee Area 5 in California. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Merletti completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Ralph Merletti was born in Buffalo, New York. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1963 to 1964. He earned a high school diploma from Sylmar High School, an associate degree from Los Angeles Valley College in 1968, a bachelor's degree from California State University, Northridge in 1970, and a graduate degree from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville in 1984. His career experience includes working as a substitute teacher, adjunct instructor of geography for the Riverside Community College District, physical science technician for the U.S. Geological Survey, cartographic aide/technician for the U.S. Forest Service, and engineering aid for the California Department of Water Resources. Merletti has been affiliated with the Sacramento Valley Astronomical Society.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Municipal elections in Sacramento County, California (2024)
General election
General election for Los Rios Community College District Trustee Area 5
Colette Harris-Mathews defeated Ralph Merletti in the general election for Los Rios Community College District Trustee Area 5 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Colette Harris-Mathews (Nonpartisan)  | 73.8 | 51,910 |
 | Ralph Merletti (Nonpartisan) | 26.2 | 18,460 | |
| Total votes: 70,370 | |||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Merletti in this election.
2020
See also: Municipal elections in Sacramento County, California (2020)
General election
General election for Los Rios Community College District Trustee Area 5
Incumbent Pamela Haynes defeated Ralph Merletti in the general election for Los Rios Community College District Trustee Area 5 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Pamela Haynes (Nonpartisan) | 77.0 | 64,511 | |
| Ralph Merletti (Nonpartisan) | 23.0 | 19,250 | |
| Total votes: 83,761 | |||
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2014
School board
- See also: Sacramento City Unified School District elections (2014)The election in Sacramento City Unified
featured four seats up for general election on November 4, 2014. There was no primary election.
Incumbents from Trustee Areas 1, 2 and 6 were up for re-election. The Trustee Area 7 seat was also up for election due to a vacancy on the board.
Trustee Area 1 incumbent Jay Hansen won re-election by defeating challengers Anna Molander and Kate Woolley. In the Trustee Area 2 race, incumbent Jeff Cuneo lost his bid for another term to challenger Ellen Cochrane. In Trustee Area 6, Darrel Woo defeated challenger Maria Haro-Sullivan. Newcomer Jessie Ryan won the race for the open Trustee Area 7 seat against Lawson C. Stuart, Ralph Merletti, Jonathan Ronald Tran and Linda Tuttle.
Results
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonpartisan |  Jessie Ryan |
42.9% | 2,350 | |
| Nonpartisan | Linda Tuttle | 20.8% | 1,143 | |
| Nonpartisan | Jonathan Ronald Tran | 17.1% | 935 | |
| Nonpartisan | Lawson C. Stuart | 9.7% | 530 | |
| Nonpartisan | Ralph Merletti | 9.2% | 507 | |
| Nonpartisan | Write-in votes | 0.3% | 18 | |
| Total Votes | 5,483 | |||
| Source: Sacramento County Voter Registration and Elections, "Official Results: General Election - November 4, 2014," accessed January 2, 2015 | ||||
Funding
The Sacramento County Voter Registration and Elections Office does not publish and freely disclose school board candidate campaign finance reports. Ballotpedia staffers directly requested this information, but the municipal office refused those requests to make that information public.[2]
Endorsements
Merletti was endorsed by the Sacramento County Republican Party.[3]
State Assembly
Elections for the California State Assembly took place in 2014. A primary election took place on June 3, 2014. The general election was held on November 4, 2014. The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was March 7, 2014. Steve Cohn (D) and Kevin McCarty (D) defeated Mark Johannessen (D), Ralph Merletti (R) and Oliver Ponce (R) in the blanket primary. McCarty defeated Cohn in the general election.[4][5][6]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Kevin McCarty |
58.7% | 46,983 | |
| Democratic | Steve Cohn | 41.3% | 33,051 | |
| Total Votes | 80,034 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic |
Kevin McCarty |
34.9% | 18,935 | |
| Democratic | Steve Cohn |
29.3% | 15,877 | |
| Republican | Ralph Merletti | 15% | 8,115 | |
| Democratic | Mark Johannessen | 11.8% | 6,413 | |
| Republican | Oliver Ponce | 9% | 4,869 | |
| Total Votes | 54,209 | |||
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Ralph Merletti completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Merletti's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- What is each LRCCD campus most in need of? -- visit the campuses, students, staff, and administrators.
- College for all who want it-- financial aid --no one left out.
- LRCCD is the 2nd-largest community college district in California in terms of enrollment... let's make it 2nd-to-none in terms of quality!
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
2020
Ralph Merletti did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 4, 2024
- ↑ Email submitted to Ballotpedia from the Sacramento County Voter Registration Office on October 27, 2014
- ↑ Sacramento County Republican Party, "SCRP Endorsed Candidates for November General Election," accessed October 22, 2014
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Official 2014 Primary election candidate list," accessed March 27, 2014
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Official primary election results," accessed July 15, 2014
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Official general election results," accessed December 14, 2014
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