California Superintendent of Public Instruction election, 2022
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California Superintendent of Public Instruction |
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Election details |
Filing deadline: March 11, 2022 |
Primary: June 7, 2022 General: November 8, 2022 Pre-election incumbent(s): Tony Thurmond |
How to vote |
Poll times: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Voting in California |
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California held an election for superintendent of public instruction on November 8, 2022. The primary was scheduled for June 7, 2022. The filing deadline was March 11, 2022.
Incumbent Tony Thurmond won election in the general election for California Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Candidates and election results
General election candidates
- Tony Thurmond (Incumbent) (Nonpartisan) ✔
- Lance Christensen (Nonpartisan)
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Primary candidates
- Tony Thurmond (Incumbent) (Nonpartisan) ✔
- Marco Amaral (Nonpartisan)
- Joseph Campbell (Nonpartisan)
- Lance Christensen (Nonpartisan) ✔
- Jim Gibson (Nonpartisan)
- Ainye Long (Nonpartisan)
- George Yang (Nonpartisan)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Voting information
- See also: Voting in California
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Lance Christensen (Nonpartisan)
Reorient all decision-making in the office and department towards the goal of what’s good for the kids and parents and commit to performing a “Kids First” audit of the Education Code.
Protect the rights and autonomy of charter schools, private schools and home schools.
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Lance Christensen (Nonpartisan)
Lance has 20 years of experience as a father of 5, teacher, education policy expert, parent advocate, nonprofit executive and public finance specialist. He knows what it takes to produce an exceptional education and it doesn’t originate or end in the State Capitol.
He can bring the vision and leadership to re-establish California as the country’s best place to educate their children.
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Lance Christensen (Nonpartisan)
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Lance Christensen (Nonpartisan)
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Lance Christensen (Nonpartisan)
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Lance Christensen (Nonpartisan)
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Lance Christensen (Nonpartisan)
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Lance Christensen (Nonpartisan)
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Lance Christensen (Nonpartisan)
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Lance Christensen (Nonpartisan)
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Lance Christensen (Nonpartisan)
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Lance Christensen (Nonpartisan)
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Lance Christensen (Nonpartisan)
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Lance Christensen (Nonpartisan)
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Lance Christensen (Nonpartisan)
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Lance Christensen (Nonpartisan)
Campaign finance
General election
Primary election
Past elections
2018
General election
General election for California Superintendent of Public Instruction
Tony Thurmond defeated Marshall Tuck in the general election for California Superintendent of Public Instruction on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Tony Thurmond (Nonpartisan) ![]() | 50.9 | 5,385,912 |
![]() | Marshall Tuck (Nonpartisan) | 49.1 | 5,198,738 |
Total votes: 10,584,650 (100.00% precincts reporting) | ||||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for California Superintendent of Public Instruction
Marshall Tuck and Tony Thurmond defeated Lily Ploski and Steven Ireland in the primary for California Superintendent of Public Instruction on June 5, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Marshall Tuck (Nonpartisan) | 37.0 | 2,223,784 |
✔ | ![]() | Tony Thurmond (Nonpartisan) ![]() | 35.6 | 2,136,919 |
![]() | Lily Ploski (Nonpartisan) | 16.4 | 984,932 | |
![]() | Steven Ireland (Nonpartisan) | 11.0 | 658,786 |
Total votes: 6,004,421 | ||||
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2014
Superintendent of California, 2014 | ||||
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Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
Nonpartisan | ![]() |
52.1% | 3,167,212 | |
Nonpartisan | Marshall Tuck | 47.9% | 2,906,989 | |
Total Votes | 6,074,201 | |||
Election results via California Secretary of State |
See also
California | State Executive Elections | News and Analysis |
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