2013 Cambridge, Massachusetts municipal election explained

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

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 data-sort-type="number"First-
preference
votes !
Result.. data-sort-type="number"..on count
[2] 2,391 Elected 1st
1,464 Elected 15th
1,457 Elected 16th
1,301 Elected 16th
1,187 Elected 17th
1,184 Elected 16th
1,151 Elected 17th
1,093 Elected 17th
985 Elected 17th
934 Eliminated 15th
875 Eliminated 16th
701 Eliminated 14th
579 Eliminated 13th
504 Eliminated 12th
420 Eliminated 11th
410 Eliminated 10th
284 Eliminated 9th
264 Eliminated 8th
107 Eliminated 7th
102 Eliminated 6th
91 Eliminated 5th
82 Eliminated 4th
74 Eliminated 3rd
49 Eliminated 2nd
38 Eliminated 2nd
Write-In 1 14 Eliminated 2nd
Write-In 2 2 Eliminated 2nd

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Proportional Representation Voting in Cambridge . Cambridgema.gov . 2012-04-28.
  2. Member of the outgoing council.