Cambridge, Massachusetts municipal election, 2013
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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.[2] Seven of the 25 candidates were incumbents.
Elected
- Dennis A. Benzan
- Dennis J. Carlone
- Leland Cheung (incumbent)
- Craig A. Kelley (incumbent)
- David P. Maher (incumbent)
- Nadeem A. Mazen
- Marc C. McGovern
- E. Denise Simmons (incumbent)
- Timothy J. Toomey, Jr. (incumbent)
Defeated
- Janneke Ann House
- James Lee
- Logan Edward Leslie
- Gary W. Mello
- Mushtaque A. Mirza
- Gregg J. Moree
- Ronald Peden
- Lesley Rebecca Phillips
- Kenneth Reeves (incumbent)
- Sam Seidel
- Jefferson R. Smith
- Minka Y. vanBeuzekom (incumbent)
- Luis Vasquez
- Kristen Lane Von Hoffmann
- James M. Williamson
- Elie Yarden
References
- ↑ "Proportional Representation Voting in Cambridge". Cambridgema.gov. Retrieved 2012-04-28.
- ↑ Election Commission. "November 5, 2013 Municipal Election". City of Cambridge. Retrieved November 2, 2013.
External links
- City of Cambridge. Official results
- Robert Winters (ed.), Cambridge Candidate Pages – 2013, Cambridge Civic Forum
- Cambridge Community Television. Election coverage, various dates
- "Cambridge City Council election issues", Harvard Crimson, October 4 – November 1, 2013,
5-part series
- Jimmy Tingle, Videos, YouTube. Interviews with Cambridge City Council candidates, 2013
- Marc Levy, ed. (2013), "City Council Candidates", Cambridge Day
- "Election 2013", Cambridge Chronicle, GateHouse Media Inc.
- Cambridge Municipal Elections, Robert Winters (1941–present)