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. 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 Member of the outgoing council. 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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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 (1941–present)