2014 Central Board Election Results
On February 23rd, 2014, the Supervisory Council held a delayed election for the Central Board and the Synagogue Boards.
A total of 1,377 votes were cast of which 90 were cast via absentee ballots. 37 votes were disqualified.
The following are the results of the Central Board election in alphabetical order with the number of votes received by each candidate:
Aminoff | Jonathan | 640 |
Ebrani | Mehrdad | 643 |
Hakim | Allen | 755 |
Hakimi (Safioff) | Behnam | 749 |
Hakimian | Khosrow | 807 |
Hakimian | Mehran | 876 |
Hakimian | Shahin (David) | 653 |
Hezghia | David | 1088 |
Kalaty | Ramin | 911 |
Kamali | Linda | 879 |
Karimzadeh | Mark | 882 |
Karimzadeh | Mojdeh | 721 |
Kavakeb | Sheila | 713 |
Nassimi | Simon | 561 |
Yaghoutiel | Hooman | 828 |
1st female alternate: | ||
Hakimian | Nancy | 689 |
Alternates: | ||
Namdar | Sammy | 524 |
Ghassabian | Simon | 517 |
Mordechai | Yahonathan | 459 |
Zar | Payam | 445 |
As per the UMJCA by laws, only 3 women may serve on the Central Board. All four female candidates received enough votes to be within the 15 elected members. However, due to the by laws restriction, the fourth woman becomes the first female alternate member of the Central Board.
2014 Shaare Tova Election Results
There were 17 votes cast for the Shaare Tova election of which 1 was disqualified. Since there were exactly 15 candidates, all 15 members were elected, as listed in the following alphabetical order:
Mikel Banilevi
Behrouz Enayatian
Abdolrahim Etessami
Amir Hadjibay
Behrouz Hakimian
Simone Kamali
Gideon Levy
Farmarz Liviem
Shahrokh Liviem
Jacob Namdar
Daniel Nassimi
Mike Mehdi Nassimi
Mouris Nassimi
Ezzatollah Zabih
Jamshid Zar
Shaare Shalom and Ohr Esther
The Supervisory Council has sealed the votes for the Synagogue Boards of Shaare Shalom and Ohr Esther and will count them and report them tomorrow night.