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Brockton Public Schools elections (2017)
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Seven seats on the Brockton Public Schools School Committee in Massachusetts were up for general election on November 7, 2017. All eight seats on the school committee were up for election. The eighth seat was held by the mayor of Brockton, but was not covered by Ballotpedia as the city fell outside of municipal elections coverage.[1]
In his bid for re-election to the Ward 3 seat, incumbent Mark D'Agostino defeated Stephen Kelley. Ward 1 incumbent Thomas J. Minichiello Jr., Ward 2 incumbent Lisa Plant, and Ward 4 incumbent Brett Gormley ran unopposed and won re-election to their seats. In Ward 5, incumbent Judy A. Sullivan defeated Nancy Demacedo. The Ward 6 race included incumbent Joyce Asack and challenger Felicia Chalmers, and Asack won the seat. Ward 7 incumbent Timothy Sullivan defeated former school committee member Raymond Henningson Jr. for another term on the board.[2][3] Steven Carl Abrams and Felicia Pandele initially filed to run for the Ward 1 and 2 seats, respectively, but they withdrew from the race.[4]
The 2017 election had a lower percentage of unopposed seats compared to the district's previous two elections. For information on election trends in the district, click here.
Elections
Voter and candidate information
The Brockton School Committee consists of eight members elected to two-year terms. Seven members are elected by district by residents of the school district, and the eighth member is the mayor of Brockton. Elections are held for all seats on the school committee every odd-numbered year in November.[5]
To get on the ballot, candidates for school committee had to file nomination paperwork with the city by August 1, 2017. To vote in this election, citizens of the school district had to register by October 18, 2017.[1] Photo identification was not required to vote in Massachusetts.[6]
Candidates and results
Ward 1
Results
| Brockton Public Schools, Ward 1 General Election, 2-year term, 2017 |
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Thomas J. Minichiello Jr. Incumbent (unopposed) |
100.00% | 1,534 |
| Total Votes | 1,534 | |
| Source: Abbey Smith, “Email communication with Cynthia Hogan, City of Brockton," November 20, 2017 | ||
Candidates
| Thomas J. Minichiello Jr. | |
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Ward 2
Results
| Brockton Public Schools, Ward 2 General Election, 2-year term, 2017 |
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
| Lisa Plant Incumbent (unopposed) |
100.00% | 925 |
| Total Votes | 925 | |
| Source: Abbey Smith, “Email communication with Cynthia Hogan, City of Brockton," November 20, 2017 | ||
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| Lisa Plant | |
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Ward 3
Results
| Brockton Public Schools, Ward 3 General Election, 2-year term, 2017 |
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
| Mark D'Agostino Incumbent |
62.98% | 1,196 |
| Stephen Kelley | 37.02% | 703 |
| Total Votes | 1,899 | |
| Source: Abbey Smith, “Email communication with Cynthia Hogan, City of Brockton," November 20, 2017 | ||
Candidates
| Mark D'Agostino |
Stephen Kelley | ||
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Ward 4
Results
| Brockton Public Schools, Ward 4 General Election, 2-year term, 2017 |
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
| Brett Gormley Incumbent (unopposed) |
100.00% | 1,359 |
| Total Votes | 1,359 | |
| Source: Abbey Smith, “Email communication with Cynthia Hogan, City of Brockton," November 20, 2017 | ||
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| Brett Gormley | |
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Ward 5
Results
| Brockton Public Schools, Ward 5 General Election, 2-year term, 2017 |
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
| Judy A. Sullivan Incumbent |
59.85% | 954 |
| Nancy Demacedo | 40.15% | 640 |
| Total Votes | 1,594 | |
| Source: Abbey Smith, “Email communication with Cynthia Hogan, City of Brockton," November 20, 2017 | ||
Candidates
| Judy A. Sullivan |
Nancy Demacedo | ||
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Ward 6
Results
| Brockton Public Schools, Ward 6 General Election, 2-year term, 2017 |
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
| Joyce Asack Incumbent |
73.05% | 1,266 |
| Felicia Chalmers | 26.95% | 467 |
| Total Votes | 1,733 | |
| Source: Abbey Smith, “Email communication with Cynthia Hogan, City of Brockton," November 20, 2017 | ||
Candidates
| Joyce Asack |
Felicia Chalmers | ||
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Ward 7
Results
| Brockton Public Schools, Ward 7 General Election, 2-year term, 2017 |
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
| Timothy Sullivan Incumbent |
57.73% | 810 |
| Raymond Henningson Jr. | 42.27% | 593 |
| Total Votes | 1,403 | |
| Source: Abbey Smith, “Email communication with Cynthia Hogan, City of Brockton," November 20, 2017 | ||
Candidates
| Timothy Sullivan |
Raymond Henningson Jr. | ||
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Additional elections on the ballot
- See also: Massachusetts elections, 2017
The Brockton School Committee election shared the ballot with elections for seven seats on the Brockton City Council and for Brockton mayor.[7]
Key deadlines
The following dates were key deadlines for the Brockton School Committee election.[1]
Endorsements
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Campaign finance
The City of Brockton Elections Office does not publish and freely disclose school board candidate campaign finance reports. If you have any information regarding the campaign finance disclosures in this race, please contact the school board elections team at editor@ballotpedia.org.
Reporting requirements
Brockton School Committee candidates had to file two campaign finance reports. The first report was due October 30, 2017, and the second report was due January 22, 2018.[8]
Past elections
To see results from past elections in Brockton Public Schools, click here.
What was at stake?
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Election trends
- See also: School boards in session: 2015 in brief
The 2017 Brockton School Committee election had a lower percentage of unopposed seats compared to the district's previous two elections. Three of the seven seats on the ballot (42.86 percent) in 2017 were unopposed, while four of the seven seats on the ballot (57.14 percent) in both 2013 and 2015 were unopposed.
The 2017 election attracted more candidates than the 2013 election but fewer candidates than the 2015 election. Eleven candidates ran for seven seats in 2017 for an average of 1.57 candidates per seat. An average of 1.71 candidates ran per seat in 2015, and an average of 1.43 candidates ran per seat in 2013.
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| Year | Candidates per seat | Unopposed seats | Incumbents running for re-election | Incumbent success rate | Seats won by newcomers | |
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| 2017 | 1.57 | 42.86% | 100.00% | 100.00% | 0.00% | |
| 2015 | 1.71 | 57.14% | 42.86% | 66.67% | 71.43% | |
| 2013 | 1.43 | 57.14% | 57.14% | 100.00% | 42.86% | |
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| 2015 | 1.49 | 25.49% | 68.63% | 85.71% | 33.33% | |
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| 2015 | 1.72 | 35.95% | 70.37% | 82.66% | 40.81% | |
About the district
- See also: Brockton Public Schools, Massachusetts
The Brockton school district is located in southeastern Massachusetts in Plymouth County. The county seats are Brockton and Plymouth. The county was home to an estimated 513,565 residents in 2016, according to the United States Census Bureau.[9] The district was the fourth-largest school district in the state in the 2014-2015 school year and served 17,186 students.[10]
Demographics
Plymouth County underperformed compared to Massachusetts as a whole in terms of higher education achievement between 2011 and 2015. The United States Census Bureau found that 34.4 percent of county residents aged 25 years and older had attained a bachelor's degree, compared to 40.5 percent of state residents. During the same time period, the median household income in Plymouth County was $75,459, compared to $68,563 for the entire state. The poverty rate in the county was 9.7 percent, while it was 11.5 percent statewide.[9]
| Racial Demographics, 2016[9] | ||
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| Race | Plymouth County (%) | Massachusetts (%) |
| White | 85.6 | 81.8 |
| Black or African American | 10.6 | 8.6 |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.3 | 0.5 |
| Asian | 1.5 | 6.7 |
| Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Two or More Races | 1.9 | 2.3 |
| Hispanic or Latino | 3.8 | 11.5 |
Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.
Recent news
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See also
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 City of Brockton, "2017 Political Calendar," accessed July 31, 2017
- ↑ Abbey Smith, “Email communication with Cynthia Hogan, City of Brockton" August 2, 2017
- ↑ The Enterprise, "Challengers couldn’t shake Brockton School Committee incumbents," November 7, 2017
- ↑ City of Brockton, "2017 Sample November Ballot," accessed November 8, 2017
- ↑ Brockton Public Schools, "School Committee," accessed July 31, 2017
- ↑ Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, "Identification Requirements," accessed May 16, 2017
- ↑ The Enterprise, "The list is in: Brockton candidates submit papers before election deadline," August 2, 2017
- ↑ Office of Campaign and Political Finance Commonwealth of Massachusetts, "Campaign Finance Guide Candidates for Municipal Office (Non-Depository)," accessed September 11, 2017
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 United States Census Bureau, "QuickFacts: Plymouth County, Massachusetts; Massachusetts," accessed July 31, 2017
- ↑ U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, "Common Core of Data, file ccd_lea_052_1414_w_0216161a, 2014-2015," accessed November 16, 2016
