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2013 Cambridge, Massachusetts municipal election

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November 5, 2013, in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Polling place, Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Cambridge, Massachusetts municipal election of 2013 took place on Tuesday, November 5, 2013, to elect the nine members of the Cambridge City Council, and the School Committee.

Cambridge has a city government led by a mayor and nine-member city council. There is also a six-member School Committee which functions alongside the Superintendent of public schools. The councilors and school committee members are elected every two years using the single transferable vote system.[1] Once a laborious process that took several days to complete by hand, ballot sorting and calculations to determine the outcome of elections are now quickly performed by computer, after the ballots have been optically scanned.

City Council candidates

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Voters indicated order of preference (first choice, second choice, etc.). for the 25 candidates. Seven of the 25 candidates were members of the outgoing council.

Candidate First-
preference
votes
Result.. ..on count
Leland Cheung[n 1] 2,391 Elected 1st
David P. Maher[n 1] 1,464 Elected 15th
Timothy J. Toomey, Jr.[n 1] 1,457 Elected 16th
Dennis A. Benzan 1,301 Elected 16th
Marc C. McGovern 1,187 Elected 17th
E. Denise Simmons[n 1] 1,184 Elected 16th
Dennis J. Carlone 1,151 Elected 17th
Craig A. Kelley[n 1] 1,093 Elected 17th
Nadeem A. Mazen 985 Elected 17th
Kenneth Reeves[n 1] 934 Eliminated 15th
Minka Y. vanBeuzekom[n 1] 875 Eliminated 16th
Sam Seidel 701 Eliminated 14th
Jefferson R. Smith 579 Eliminated 13th
Logan Edward Leslie 504 Eliminated 12th
Kristen Von Hoffmann 420 Eliminated 11th
Janneke Ann House 410 Eliminated 10th
Mushtaque A. Mirza 284 Eliminated 9th
Luis Vasquez 264 Eliminated 8th
Gary W. Mello 107 Eliminated 7th
Elie Yarden 102 Eliminated 6th
James Lee 91 Eliminated 5th
Lesley Rebec. Phillips 82 Eliminated 4th
James M. Williamson 74 Eliminated 3rd
Ronald Peden 49 Eliminated 2nd
Gregg J. Moree 38 Eliminated 2nd
Write-In 1 14 Eliminated 2nd
Write-In 2 2 Eliminated 2nd
  1. ^ a b c d e f g Member of the outgoing council.

References

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Sources

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  • "COUNT 1 -- Tally of 1st place votes". November 15, 2013 -- Cambridge, MA City Council Election. City of Cambridge. Retrieved February 8, 2017.
  • "COUNT 17 -- vanBeuzekom, Minka Y. has been DEFEATED -- transferring all votes". November 15, 2013 -- Cambridge, MA City Council Election. City of Cambridge. Retrieved February 8, 2017.
  • Board of Election Commissioners. "Municipal Elections; Voting by Proportional Representation" (PDF). City of Cambridge.

Citations

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  1. ^ "Proportional Representation Voting in Cambridge". Cambridgema.gov. Retrieved April 28, 2012.
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