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...cumbersome process of proportional voting slowly turned out the results of Cambridge's November 6 election: the conservative Independents captured a 5-4 majority on the city council and battled to a deadlock with the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) for control of the school committee...
Cambridge voters thus threw out the liberal CCA majority on the city council and replaced it with a strong show of support for the more conservative Independents...
...redistribution revealed two major surprises in Cambridge voting trends--the strength of CCA School Committeeman David A. Wylie and the liberal nature of Dominic H. Christofaro's supporters. Christofaro was widely regarded as the most conservative CCA-endorsed candidate and some observers had expected his voters would support Independent candidates with their tertiary votes...
...school committee race ended in a CCA-Independent deadlock. Glenn S. Koocher '71, a moderate who ran without the endorsement of any slate, captured the sixth and final seat on the committee, preventing a victory by either side...
...Three CCA-endorsed candidates and two Independents also won election to the school committee. The Independent-controlled city council will elect the new mayor, who will then become the board's seventh member and third Independent...