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The re-election of incumbents Alice K. Wolf and Francis H. Duehay '55 to the City Council was officially declared yesterday, as the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) moved one step closer to gaining its first majority on the nine-member council since 1973.
Shortly before 6 p.m. Election Commissioner Sondra Scheir read out the official count of first-choice votes for the council, and announced that the "quota" needed for election this year is 2696.
Under Cambridge's system of proportional representation, votes in excess of the quota are transferred to lower choices on the ballot. Duehay's election was announced at 10:55 p.m., after election officials began to transfer Wolf's 868 surplus ballots.
The mood of city liberals reached its peakshortly before 5 p.m., when Election CommissionerSondra Scheir read, in alphabetical order, thefirst choice vote totals with three quarters ofthe votes counted. On reaching Wolf's name at thebottom of the list, Scheir paused for about 10seconds.
These results are unofficial. Candidates areelected to the nine-member council once they reachthe quota, which election officials estimated at2698 votes. In Cambridge's complicated system ofproportional representation, votes are transferredto lower-choice candidates after the first choicesmeet the quota or are dropped from the count forhaving gotten the fewest...