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Jul 12, 2022 · TEACHERS’ UNION ENDORSEMENTS HELD WEIGHT: 88% of candidates we identified as being endorsed by the teachers’ union were successfully elected to school boards. Slightly more than half (54%) of the successful, endorsed candidates were incumbents, and 46% were new candidates.
Jul 19, 2022 · WAMC's Jim Levulis spoke with the Association’s David Albert about the findings – including that 54 percent of elected school board candidates this year were incumbents.
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Of the 24 states with school board elections covered by Ballotpedia in 2021, Texas saw the most seats up for election with 185. Ohio came in second with 62 seats up for election. Louisiana had the fewest seats up for election with one, while Idaho and Californiatied for the second-fewest with two each. The map below shows how many seats were up for...
Table of election methods by school district
The table below shows all of the 180 school districts that held elections in 2021. It includes information on the partisan method of election and race stage method of election for each district. Click [Show] to the right to see the full list.
By state
Alaska had the highest average number of candidates run per school board seat in 2021. The state saw 16 candidates run for four seats for an average of four candidates per seat. New York saw the lowest average number of candidates run per seat. Five candidates ran for four seats in that state for an average of 1.25 candidates per seat. When looking at unopposed seats, Nebraska took the lead with exactly half of its school board seats seeing only one candidate run. Eleven states—Alaska, Califo...
By enrollment
When looking at school districts by enrollment, larger districts saw a higher average number of candidates per seat compared to smaller districts. In school districts with a student enrollment above 100,001, the average number of candidates per seat was 3.14, which was the highest out of 13 enrollment sizes. All districts with enrollments above 40,001 students saw an average of more than two candidates per seat. The smallest average was 1.17 candidates per seat in school districts with enroll...
A total of 335 school board incumbents ran for re-election in 2021, and 263 were elected to new terms, a win rate of 78.51%. Seven states—Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Jersey, and New York—saw all school board incumbents who ran for re-election win, while one state—Alaska—saw all of the incumbents who ran lose their re-election ...
A total of 742 of the 1,077 candidates who ran in the 2021 school board elections were non-incumbents. They won 253 school board seats, 49.03% of the seats up for election. Four states—Alaska, California, Idaho, and New Mexico—saw all seats up for election go to non-incumbents, while two states—Louisiana and Nebraska—saw no non-incumbents win elect...
This report includes school board elections covered by Ballotpedia in 2021. A total of 466 school districts were in Ballotpedia's coverage scope in 2021. This includes all school districts in the 100 largest cities by population and the 200 largest school districts by student enrollment. Although Ballotpedia covers all school board recallsin the Un...
May 31, 2023 · Based on NYSSBA’s analysis, in the 2023 school board elections, 46% of districts had more candidates than open seats, 47% of districts had an equal number of candidates as open seats, and 7% of districts had fewer candidates than open board seats.
Jul 12, 2022 · But the analysis of 1,453 candidates conducted by the school boards association found voters in many of these races instead supported incumbents, with 54% of elected candidates returning to office. Candidates endorsed by teachers' unions also saw the most success, with 88% of those endorsed by labor groups winning re-election.
School board elections in 2023 saw a lower percentage of seats go to incumbents compared to 2022 and 2020, but the same percentage as 2021. In both 2023 and 2021, incumbents won 50.97% of seats up for election, while non-incumbents won 48.25% in 2023 and 49.03% in 2021.
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School board elections in 2022 saw a higher percentage of seats go to incumbents compared to 2021 but a lower percentage compared to 2020. Incumbents won 53.38% of seats up for election in 2022, and non-incumbents won 46.11%.
