Willie Dewitt Carson
Willie Dewitt Carson was a candidate for at-large representative on the Compton Unified School District school board in California. Carson was defeated in the at-large general election on November 7, 2017.
Carson unsuccessfully ran for a seat on the board in 2009 and 2011.
Elections
2017
Four of the seven seats on the Compton Unified School District Board of Education in California were up for at-large general election on November 7, 2017. In their bids for re-election, incumbents Margie N. Garrett, Alma Taylor-Pleasant, Mae Thomas, and Satra D. Zurita defeated former member Alita Godwin, former candidates Barbara Calhoun, Willie Dewitt Carson, Joseph L. Lewis, and Gregory Pitts, and newcomers Barbara Banks, Rodney Lonnell Curry, Jesse Harris, Ricky Hicks, Mary Jackson-Freeny, Luis Landeros, Anthony Lee Perry, Shawn Poole-Louis, Jonathan Taylor, and Tracy Shawn Wiggins.[1][2]
Results
| Compton Unified School District, At-large General Election, 4-year terms, 2017 |
||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Mae Thomas Incumbent |
13.50% | 2,654 |
| Satra D. Zurita Incumbent |
12.36% | 2,430 |
| Margie N. Garrett Incumbent |
10.19% | 2,003 |
| Alma Taylor-Pleasant Incumbent |
7.72% | 1,517 |
| Gregory Pitts | 7.62% | 1,497 |
| Rodney Lonnell Curry | 6.35% | 1,248 |
| Barbara Calhoun | 6.20% | 1,218 |
| Jonathan Taylor | 5.95% | 1,169 |
| Alita Godwin | 5.08% | 998 |
| Mary Jackson-Freeny | 4.67% | 918 |
| Barbara Banks | 4.33% | 852 |
| Luis Landeros | 3.90% | 766 |
| Joseph L. Lewis | 2.54% | 500 |
| Shawn Poole-Louis | 2.52% | 496 |
| Willie Dewitt Carson | 2.08% | 408 |
| Tracy Shawn Wiggins | 1.88% | 369 |
| Jesse Harris | 1.27% | 249 |
| Ricky Hicks | 0.97% | 190 |
| Anthony Lee Perry | 0.88% | 172 |
| Total Votes | 19,654 | |
| Source: Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Local and Municipal Consolidated Elections November 7, 2017," accessed November 21, 2017 | ||
Funding
At the time of this election, the Los Angeles Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk did not publish school board candidate campaign finance reports online. Ballotpedia staffers requested this information, but the only free method of viewing the files was at their office.
The Los Angeles Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk targeted the end of 2018 to make school board candidate campaign finance reports available online for free. From that point forward, Ballotpedia began including campaign finance data for Los Angeles County school board candidates.[3][4][5]
2011
| Compton Unified School District, At-Large General Election, 4-year term, 2011 |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan | Micah Ali Incumbent |
19.7% | 2,323 | |
| Nonpartisan | Emma Sharif |
11.9% | 1,401 | |
| Nonpartisan | Skyy Fisher |
11.6% | 1,369 | |
| Nonpartisan | Joel Estrada | 8.4% | 998 | |
| Nonpartisan | Enelida Alvarez | 7.9% | 928 | |
| Nonpartisan | Joseph L. Lewis | 7.6% | 901 | |
| Nonpartisan | Otha Ray Scott | 6% | 709 | |
| Nonpartisan | Willie Dewitt Carson | 5.8% | 684 | |
| Nonpartisan | Carolyn Patterson Stokes | 5.4% | 639 | |
| Nonpartisan | Rodolfo Enriquez | 5.3% | 632 | |
| Nonpartisan | Latanya Hall-Ganter | 5.3% | 623 | |
| Nonpartisan | Donna Hefflin | 5.2% | 609 | |
| Total Votes | 11,816 | |||
| Source: Smart Voter.org, "Governing Board Member; Compton Unified School District Voter Information" accessed September 12, 2013 | ||||
2009
| Compton Unified School District, At-large General Election, 4-year term, 2009 |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan | Mae Thomas |
16% | 2,555 | |
| Nonpartisan | Satra D. Zurita |
15.8% | 2,524 | |
| Nonpartisan | Margie N. Garrett |
12.4% | 1,979 | |
| Nonpartisan | Marjorie A. Shipp |
11.6% | 1,858 | |
| Nonpartisan | Paulette Simpson-Gipson | 11.4% | 1,818 | |
| Nonpartisan | Joel Estrada | 9.7% | 1,545 | |
| Nonpartisan | Deatra M. Handy | 6.4% | 1,025 | |
| Nonpartisan | Tomas Carlos | 6.2% | 985 | |
| Nonpartisan | Joseph L. Lewis | 4.6% | 729 | |
| Nonpartisan | Willie Dewitt Carson | 3.5% | 554 | |
| Nonpartisan | Nydja A. Quarles | 2.5% | 404 | |
| Total Votes | 15,976 | |||
| Source: Smart Voter.org, "Governing Board Member; Compton Unified School District Voter Information" accessed September 12, 2013 | ||||
Recent news
The link below is to the most recent stories in a Google news search for the terms Willie Dewitt Carson Compton Unified School District school board. These results are automatically generated from Google. Ballotpedia does not curate or endorse these articles.
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Candidate List: Local And Municipal Consolidated Elections 11/7/2017," accessed August 12, 2017
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Local and Municipal Consolidated Elections," accessed November 8, 2017
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Campaign Finance Reports," accessed July 2, 2014
- ↑ Daniel Anderson, “Email communication with Brenda Duran, Los Angeles County Public Information Officer," October 7, 2016
- ↑ Abbey Smith, “Email communication with Brenda Duran, Los Angeles County Public Information Officer," January 2, 2018
