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2015 Minnetonka School District Elections
General Election date:
November 3, 2015
Table of Contents
About the district Method of election Elections Key deadlines Additional elections External links
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Minnesota Minnetonka School District Hennepin County, Minnesota ballot measures Local ballot measures, Minnesota

Four seats on theMinnetonka School District School Board were up forgeneral election onNovember 3, 2015.

The seats of at-large incumbents Charlie Kanan,Lisa Sumner,Lisa Wagner and Karen Walkowski were up for election.^[1] Sumner and Wagner, along with newcomersMark Ambrosen andKatie Becker, ran unopposed and won the four at-large seats. Neither Kanan nor Walkowski filed to run for re-election.

About the district

See also:Minnetonka School District, Minnesota

Minnetonka School District is located in Hennepin County, Minn.

Minnetonka School District is located in centralMinnesota inHennepin County. The county seat isMinneapolis. This county was home to 1,152,425 residents in 2010, according to the United States Census Bureau.^[2] In the 2012-2013 school year, Minnetonka School District was the17th-largest school district inMinnesota and served 9,596 students.^[3]

Demographics

Hennepin County outperformed the rest of Minnesota in terms of higher education achievement in 2013. The United States Census Bureau found that 45.8 percent of county residents aged 25 years and older had attained a bachelor's degree, compared to 32.6 percent for Minnesota as a whole. The median household income in Hennepin County was $64,403, compared to $59,836 for the state of Minnesota. The poverty rate was 12.8 percent, compared to 11.5 percent for the entire state.^[2]

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 censushere.

Voter and candidate information

The Minnetonka School Board consists of seven members electedat-large to four-year terms. There was noprimary election, and thegeneral election was held onNovember 3, 2015. Four seats were up for election in 2015.^[1]

School board candidates had to file nomination documents during the candidate filing period, which began on July 28, 2015, and ended on August 11, 2015. The deadline for candidates to withdraw was August 13, 2015.^[5]

Elections

2015

Candidates

At-large

Lisa Sumner		Lisa Wagner
	Incumbent B.A., Indiana University Director of sales and new business development, JL Buchanan		Incumbent B.A., Stanford University Business manager, Microgigantic
Mark Ambrosen		Katie Becker
	B.A., Winona State University Retired air traffic controller		B.A., the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire

Election results

Minnetonka School District, At-Large, General Election, 2015
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Lisa WagnerIncumbent	26.1%	3,816
Mark Ambrosen	24.3%	3,554
Lisa SumnerIncumbent	24.2%	3,539
Katie Becker	24.2%	3,534
Write-in votes	1.28%	187
Total Votes		14,630
Source:Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State, "Local Results in Hennepin County," accessed November 4, 2015 These election results are not official and will be updated when certified results are available. You can submit certified results bycontacting us.

Endorsements

None of the candidates received endorsements in this election.

Campaign finance

No contributions or expenditures were reported during the election, according to theMinnetonka School District administration.^[6]

Past elections

Information about earlier elections can be found by clicking [show] at the right.

2013 Minnetonka School District, At-Large General Election, 4-year term, 2013 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Pam LangsethIncumbent 30.7% 1,403      Nonpartisan John HolcombIncumbent 30.4% 1,386      Nonpartisan Heidi Garcia 20.8% 950      Nonpartisan Deirdre Keller-Zucker 17.4% 795      Nonpartisan Write-in votes 0.7% 31 Total Votes 4,565 Source:Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State, "Results for Selected Contests in School District No. 276 - Minnetonka," accessed May 5, 2015 2011 Minnetonka School District, At-Large General Election, 4-year term, 2011 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Lisa WagnerIncumbent 18.5% 3,725      Nonpartisan Charlie Kanan 17.4% 3,500      Nonpartisan Karen WalkowskiIncumbent 17.1% 3,455      Nonpartisan Lisa Sumner 16.5% 3,326      Nonpartisan Derek Eitreim 8.8% 1,776      Nonpartisan Laurie Stoltenberg 7.7% 1,547      Nonpartisan Kevin Maire 7.1% 1,432      Nonpartisan Joe Torelli 6.7% 1,353      Nonpartisan Write-in votes 0.2% 46 Total Votes 20,160 Source:Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State, "Results for Selected School District Contests," accessed May 5, 2015

Key deadlines

The following dates were key deadlines for the Minnetonka School District election in 2015:^[5]

Additional elections on the ballot

See also:Minnesota elections, 2015

This election shared the ballot with the general election for city council in Wards 1, 2, 3 and 4.^[7]

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See also

Minnetonka School District	Minnesota	School Boards
List of school districts in Minnesota	Minnesota school board elections, 2015 Public education in Minnesota Local ballot measures, Minnesota	School board elections, 2015 School board elections, 2014 School board election data analysis, 2015 School board election data analysis, 2014

External links

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• Minnetonka School District
• Hennepin County Elections

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