2013 Cambridge, Massachusetts municipal election

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.

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

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. Benzan 1,301Elected16th
Marc C. McGovern 1,187Elected17th
E. Denise Simmons [n 1]1,184Elected16th
Dennis J. Carlone 1,151Elected17th
Craig A. Kelley [n 1]1,093Elected17th
Nadeem A. Mazen 985Elected17th
Kenneth Reeves [n 1]934Eliminated15th
Minka Y. vanBeuzekom [n 1]875Eliminated16th
Sam Seidel 701Eliminated14th
Jefferson R. Smith 579Eliminated13th
Logan Edward Leslie 504Eliminated12th
Kristen Von Hoffmann 420Eliminated11th
Janneke Ann House 410Eliminated10th
Mushtaque A. Mirza 284Eliminated9th
Luis Vasquez 264Eliminated8th
Gary W. Mello 107Eliminated7th
Elie Yarden 102Eliminated6th
James Lee 91Eliminated5th
Lesley Rebec. Phillips 82Eliminated4th
James M. Williamson 74Eliminated3rd
Ronald Peden 49Eliminated2nd
Gregg J. Moree 38Eliminated2nd
Write-In 114Eliminated2nd
Write-In 22Eliminated2nd
  1. Member of the outgoing council.

References

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

Citations
  1. "Proportional Representation Voting in Cambridge". Cambridgema.gov. Retrieved 2012-04-28.


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