Sherry Womack
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Sherry Womack is an at-large representative on the Lee County Schools school board in North Carolina. Womack won the seat in the at-large general election on November 8, 2016.
Elections
2016
Four of the seven seats on the Lee County Schools school board were up for general election on November 8, 2016. Five Democrats and four Republicans filed for the at-large seats. A primary election was held for the Democratic candidates on March 15, 2016.
The seats of Tamara Brogan, Wendy Hughes Carlyle, Cameron Sharpe and Linda A. Smith were up for election. Brogan and four other Democrats filed for the seats. They were Ken Britton, Janice Oelrich Davis, Lynn Smith and Patrick Kelly. Ken Britton was eliminated in the primary, and the rest went on to compete for the seats in the general election. Four Republicans—Stephen Coble, Phillip Helms, Pamela Sutton and Sherry Womack—also vied for a spot on the board in the general. Two Democrats and two Republicans won the seats: Kelly, Smith, Coble, and Womack.[1][2]
Results
| Lee County Schools, At-Large General Election, 4-year terms, 2016 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democrat |  Patrick Kelly |
14.63% | 12,838 | |
| Democrat | Lynn Smith |
14.16% | 12,422 | |
| Republican | Stephen Coble |
13.10% | 11,497 | |
| Republican | Sherry Womack |
12.31% | 10,799 | |
| Democrat | Tamara Brogan Incumbent | 12.10% | 10,616 | |
| Republican | Pamela Sutton | 11.77% | 10,329 | |
| Democrat | Janice Oelrich Davis | 11.27% | 9,888 | |
| Republican | Phillip Helms | 10.67% | 9,365 | |
| Total Votes (100) | 87,754 | |||
| Source: North Carolina State Board of Elections, "Official General Election Results-Lee," accessed December 5, 2016 | ||||
Funding
Womack did not file a campaign finance report with the Lee County Board of Elections as of November 3, 2016.[3]
School board candidates in North Carolina were required to file campaign finance reports to their county's board of elections unless the candidate:
(1) Did not receive more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) in contributions, and
(2) Did not receive more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) in loans, and
(3) Did not spend more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).[4]
The third quarter campaign finance deadline was October 31, 2016, and the fourth quarter deadline was January 11, 2017.[5]
Recent news
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See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Elisabeth Cervantes, Email conversation with Director Lee County Board of Elections Nancy J. Kimble, January 25, 2016
- ↑ North Carolina State Board of Elections, "Unofficial General Election Results-Lee," accessed November 8, 2016
- ↑ Lee County, "Campaign Finance Reports 2016," accessed November 3, 2016
- ↑ General Assembly of North Carolina, "Chapter 163: Elections And Election Laws, Article 22A - Regulating Contributions and Expenditures in Political Campaigns," accessed February 11, 2016
- ↑ North Carolina State Board of Elections, "Reporting Schedules," accessed October 11, 2016
| 2016 Lee County Schools Elections | |
| Election date: | Primary: March 15, 2016 General: November 8, 2016 |
| Candidates: | At-large: Incumbent, Tamara Brogan (D) • Ken Britton (D) • Janice Oelrich Davis (D) • Lynn Smith (D) • Patrick Kelly (D) • Stephen Coble (R) • Phillip Helms (R) • Pamela Sutton (R) • Sherry Womack (R) |
| Important information: | What was at stake? • Additional elections on the ballot • Key deadlines |
