Dara Royal
Dara Royal ran for election to the Oak Island Town Council in North Carolina. Royal lost in the general election on November 5, 2019.
Royal completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2019
See also: City elections in Oak Island, North Carolina (2019)
General election
General election for Oak Island Town Council (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Oak Island Town Council on November 5, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jeff Winecoff (Nonpartisan) | 19.7 | 1,479 |
| ✔ |  | Charlie Blalock (Nonpartisan) | 18.4 | 1,377 |
| ✔ |  | Sheila Mansfield Bell (Nonpartisan)  | 18.2 | 1,365 |
 | Dara Royal (Nonpartisan) | 16.7 | 1,252 | |
 | Michael Defeo (Nonpartisan) | 14.6 | 1,093 | |
 | Niki Cutler (Nonpartisan) | 12.2 | 913 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 23 | ||
| Total votes: 7,502 | |||
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Campaign themes
2019
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Dara Royal completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Royal's responses.
What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?
Providing reliable basic services at the level our residents need and deserve for enforcing codes, maintaining facilities, recovering from hurricanes, providing recreational activities, clearing stormwater drains, repairing streets, and collecting yard debris.|Conducting business and managing resources in an open, straightforward, and responsive manner.|Evaluating the short-and long-term fiscal impact of decisions.|Realizing the full potential of our government access channel to communicate with our citizens.|Amending, updating and implementing our Comprehensive Land Use Plan and Unified Development Ordinance to guide future growth.|
What qualities does this office possess that makes it a unique and important part of the state government and legal system?
Local government is created, empowered, and partially funded by the state government to provide reliable basic services and to enforce a code of ordinances to protect the health, safety, and welfare of its citizens.
What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?
Servant leadership, transparency, humility, honesty, integrity, active listening, respect those who disagree with you, graciously accept praise and criticism, learn from your mistakes, keep your promises, do your homework.
What legacy would you like to leave?
The Town of Oak Island continues to be a single-family residential community by the sea with a small-town atmosphere that values its people, cherishes its cultural heritage, maintains it recreational amenities, sustains its natural resources, and delivers reliable basic services for working families and retirees.
What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?
Watching the first televised Presidential Debate in 1960 between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon with my parents when I was 4 years old.
Do you believe that it's beneficial for holders of this office to have previous experience in government or politics?
It is beneficial for holders of this office to have previous experience in government if the lessons learned from that experience translate into providing reliable basic services and effective code enforcement by providing the resources necessary to do so in each annual budget.
What kind of skills or expertise do you believe would be the most helpful for the holders of this office to possess?
Local government budgeting and accounting, analyzing short- and long-term trends in data, planning and zoning, familiarity with the authorities and powers given to local government by the state, establishing and maintaining good working relationships with all stakeholders, problem-solving, facilitating resolution of citizen requests, concerns, and complaints regarding public services.
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See also
2019 Elections
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