2013 Cambridge, Massachusetts municipal election

September 2023 thumb|right|November 5, 2013, in Cambridge, Massachusetts thumb|right|175px|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. 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.http://www.cambridgema.gov/election/Proportional_Representation.cfm Proportional Representation Voting in Cambridge Cambridgema.gov 2012-04-28 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 First-preferencevotes Result.. ..on count Leland Cheung Member of the outgoing council. 2,391 Elected 1st David P. Maher 1 1,464 Elected 15th Timothy J. Toomey, Jr. 1,457 Elected 16th Dennis A. Benzan 1 1,301 Elected 16th Marc C. McGovern 1 1,187 Elected 17th E. Denise Simmons 1,184 Elected 16th Dennis J. Carlone 1 1,151 Elected 17th Craig A. Kelley 1 1,093 Elected 17th Nadeem A. Mazen 1 985 Elected 17th Kenneth Reeves 934 Eliminated 15th Minka Y. vanBeuzekom 1 875 Eliminated 16th Sam Seidel 1 701 Eliminated 14th Jefferson R. Smith 1 579 Eliminated 13th Logan Edward Leslie 1 504 Eliminated 12th Kristen Von Hoffmann 1 420 Eliminated 11th Janneke Ann House 1 410 Eliminated 10th Mushtaque A. Mirza 1 284 Eliminated 9th Luis Vasquez 1 264 Eliminated 8th Gary W. Mello 1 107 Eliminated 7th Elie Yarden 1 102 Eliminated 6th James Lee 1 91 Eliminated 5th Lesley Rebec. Phillips 1 82 Eliminated 4th James M. Williamson 1 74 Eliminated 3rd Ronald Peden 1 49 Eliminated 2nd Gregg J. Moree 1 38 Eliminated 2nd Write-In 1 14 Eliminated 2nd Write-In 2 2 Eliminated 2nd "n" References Sources http://www.cambridgema.gov/Election2013/official/Council%20Round1.htm COUNT 1 -- Tally of 1st place votes November 15, 2013 -- Cambridge, MA City Council Election City of Cambridge 8 February 2017 http://www.cambridgema.gov/Election2013/official/Council%20Round17.htm COUNT 17 -- vanBeuzekom, Minka Y. has been DEFEATED -- transferring all votes. November 15, 2013 -- Cambridge, MA City Council Election City of Cambridge 8 February 2017 http://www.cambridgema.gov/~/media/BD029816F80C4CDC89FD22B40EEBE4BE.ashx PDF Municipal Elections; Voting by Proportional Representation Board of Election Commissioners City of Cambridge Citations External links 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 http://www.rwinters.com/elections/index.html Cambridge Municipal Elections Robert Winters (1941–present) Category:Government of Cambridge, Massachusetts cambridge cambridge Category:November 2013 in the United States