2013 Cambridge, Massachusetts municipal election

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November 5, 2013, in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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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.

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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

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.

CandidateFirst-
preference
votes		Result....on count
Leland Cheung [n 1] 2,391Elected1st
David P. Maher [n 1] 1,464Elected15th
Timothy J. Toomey, Jr. [n 1] 1,457Elected16th
Dennis A. Benzan1,301Elected16th
Marc C. McGovern1,187Elected17th
E. Denise Simmons [n 1] 1,184Elected16th
Dennis J. Carlone1,151Elected17th
Craig A. Kelley [n 1] 1,093Elected17th
Nadeem A. Mazen985Elected17th
Kenneth Reeves [n 1] 934Eliminated15th
Minka Y. vanBeuzekom [n 1] 875Eliminated16th
Sam Seidel701Eliminated14th
Jefferson R. Smith579Eliminated13th
Logan Edward Leslie504Eliminated12th
Kristen Von Hoffmann420Eliminated11th
Janneke Ann House410Eliminated10th
Mushtaque A. Mirza284Eliminated9th
Luis Vasquez264Eliminated8th
Gary W. Mello107Eliminated7th
Elie Yarden102Eliminated6th
James Lee91Eliminated5th
Lesley Rebec. Phillips82Eliminated4th
James M. Williamson74Eliminated3rd
Ronald Peden49Eliminated2nd
Gregg J. Moree38Eliminated2nd
Write-In 114Eliminated2nd
Write-In 22Eliminated2nd
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Member of the outgoing council.

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Citations

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


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