Midwest City-Del City Schools elections (2018)

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Midwest City-Del City Schools elections

General election date
February 13, 2018
Enrollment ('15-'16)
14,574 students

One seat on the Midwest City-Del City Schools school board in Oklahoma was up for general election on February 13, 2018. Number 3 incumbent Jimmie Nolen was the only candidate to file for that race, causing it to be canceled due to lack of opposition. Nolen won re-election by default.[1]

Oklahoma held runoff elections on April 3, 2018, for school board races across the state where no candidate received a majority of the vote in the general election.

Elections

Candidates and results

Incumbent Jimmie Nolen ran unopposed in the Midwest City-Del City Schools general election.The election was canceled due to lack of opposition. The candidate won election by default.


Midwest City-Del City Schools,
Number 3 General Election, 5-year term, 2018
Candidates
Green check mark transparent.png Jimmie Nolen Incumbent

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About the district

See also: Midwest City-Del City Schools, Oklahoma

Midwest City-Del City Schools is located in Oklahoma. The district was the 10th-largest school district in the state in the 2014–2015 school year and served 14,741 students.[2]


Pivot Counties

See also: Pivot Counties by state

There are no Pivot Counties in Oklahoma. Pivot Counties are counties that voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2008 and 2012 and for Donald Trump (R) in 2016. Altogether, the nation had 206 Pivot Counties, with most being concentrated in upper midwestern and northeastern states.

In the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump (R) won Oklahoma with 65.3 percent of the vote. Hillary Clinton (D) received 28.9 percent. In presidential elections between 1904 and 2016, Oklahoma voted for the winning presidential candidate 72.4 percent of the time. In that same time frame, Oklahoma supported Republican candidates for president more often than Democratic candidates, 65.5 to 34.5 percent. The state favored Republicans in every presidential election between 2000 and 2016.

Presidential results by legislative district

The following table details results of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections by state House districts in Oklahoma. Click [show] to expand the table. The "Obama," "Romney," "Clinton," and "Trump" columns describe the percent of the vote each presidential candidate received in the district. The "2012 Margin" and "2016 Margin" columns describe the margin of victory between the two presidential candidates in those years. The "Party Control" column notes which party held that seat heading into the 2018 general election. Data on the results of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections broken down by state legislative districts was compiled by Daily Kos.[3][4]

In 2012, Barack Obama (D) won 8 out of 101 state House districts in Oklahoma with an average margin of victory of 37.4 points. In 2016, Hillary Clinton (D) won 11 out of 101 state House districts in Oklahoma with an average margin of victory of 27.7 points. Clinton won one district controlled by a Republican heading into the 2018 elections.
In 2012, Mitt Romney (R) won 93 out of 101 state House districts in Oklahoma with an average margin of victory of 37.3 points. In 2016, Donald Trump (R) won 90 out of 101 state House districts in Oklahoma with an average margin of victory of 42.2 points. Trump won 18 districts controlled by Democrats heading into the 2018 elections.


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See also

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