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
editVoters 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 |
References
editSources
edit- "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
edit- ^ "Proportional Representation Voting in Cambridge". Cambridgema.gov. Retrieved April 28, 2012.
External links
edit- City of Cambridge. 2013 Municipal Election Official Results
- Part I of a five-part series on Cambridge City Council election issues Harvard Crimson October 4, 2013
- Cambridge Candidate Pages – 2013 (via Internet Archive)
- City Council Candidates Cambridge Day
- Cambridge Municipal Elections, Robert Winters (1941–present)
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