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Walt Davenport
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Walt Davenport was the Trustee Area 7 member on the Newport-Mesa Unified Board of Education in California. He did not file to run for re-election in 2018.
Elections
2014
The election in Newport-Mesa Unified featured five seats up for general election on November 4, 2014. There was no primary election.
Vicki Snell, appointed to the Trustee Area 1 seat in 2014, was up for election to a two-year term. Incumbents Karen Yelsey, Judy A. Franco and Walt Davenport from Trustee Areas 4, 5 and 7, respectively, were up for re-election to four-year terms. No incumbents filed for the Trustee Area 2 seat.
Yelsey and Franco ran unopposed and won re-election. Davenport defeated challengers Lisa Manfredi and Fidel Mora. The race for the open Trustee Area 2 seat featured candidates Charlene Metoyer and Michael B. Collier. Metoyer defeated Collier for the seat. In Trustee Area 1, Snell defeated challenger Steve Smith.
Results
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonpartisan |  Walt Davenport Incumbent |
56.1% | 19,727 | |
| Nonpartisan | Lisa Manfredi | 23.4% | 8,229 | |
| Nonpartisan | Fidel Mora | 20.6% | 7,231 | |
| Total Votes | 35,187 | |||
| Source: Orange County, "Official Results for Election," accessed December 23, 2014 | ||||
Funding
The Orange County Registrar of Voters does not publish and freely disclose school board candidate campaign finance reports that were filed by paper in their office. Ballotpedia staffers directly requested this information, but the municipal office refused those requests to make that information public.
See also
- Newport-Mesa Unified School District, California
- Newport-Mesa Unified School District elections (2014)
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