Richard Evans (Florida)

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Richard Evans was a candidate for the District 2 seat on the Marion County Public Schools school board in Florida. Evans was defeated in the by-district primary election on August 30, 2016.

Elections[edit]

2016[edit]

See also: Marion County Public Schools elections (2016)

One of the five seats on the Marion County Public Schools school board was up for at-large primary election on August 30, 2016. Three newcomers filed for the District 2 seat: Bill Archibald, Richard Evans, and Beth McCall. McCall won the seat outright by receiving more than 50 percent of the votes cast in the primary. If she had not won a majority of the votes, a general election for that seat would have been held on November 8, 2016. The District 1 seat was originally set to be on the ballot, but when the filing deadline passed and incumbent Nancy Stacy was unopposed in her bid for re-election, she was automatically re-elected. The election for the seat was canceled and her name did not appear on the ballot.^[1][2]

Results[edit]

Marion County Public Schools, District 2 Primary Election, 4-year term, 2016
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Beth McCall	63.45%	33,983
Richard Evans	18.46%	9,888
Bill Archibald	18.09%	9,689
Total Votes		53,560
Source: Marion County Supervisor of Elections, "2016 Primary Election," accessed December 14, 2016

Funding[edit]

Evans reported $3,147.00 in contributions and $2,433.34 in expenditures to the Marion County Supervisor of Elections, which left him with $713.66 cash on hand as of August 22, 2016.^[3]

About the district[edit]

See also: Marion County Public Schools, Florida

Marion County Public Schools is located in the county of the same name in north-central Florida.

Marion County Public Schools serves the county of the same name in north-central Florida. The city of Ocala is the county seat. The county was home to an estimated 343,254 residents between 2010 and 2015, according to the United States Census Bureau.^[4] The district was the 17th-largest school district in the state in the 2013–2014 school year and served 42,107 students.^[5]

Demographics[edit]

Marion County underperformed compared to Florida as a whole in terms of higher education attainment from 2010 to 2014. The United States Census Bureau found that 17.2 percent of county residents aged 25 and older had attained a bachelor's degree or higher, compared to 26.8 percent statewide. The median household income for the county was $39,339 compared to $47,212 for the state. County residents lived below poverty level at a rate of 17.8 percent, while that rate was 16.5 percent for state residents.^[4]

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.

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See also[edit]

• Marion County Public Schools, Florida
• Marion County Public Schools elections (2016)

External links[edit]

• Marion County Public Schools
• Marion County Supervisor of Elections

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