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According to a preliminary count taken yesterday by election officials, Wolf received 3548 first-choice votes, easily assuring her a fourth term on the nine-member City Council.
For complete results of yesterday's preliminary election count, see page 9.
Election officials estimated the "quota" of votes needed for election at 2698, meaning that 850 of Wolf's votes will be transferred to candidates who were lower choices on her first-place ballots.
And for the first time since his election to the council in 1959, Councillor Walter J. Sullivan failed to meet the quota on the first round.
City politicos had predicted that this election could radically change the face of city politics, largely because Vellucci, the mayor and a 34-year council member, and two longtime CCA councillors, Saundra M. Graham and David E. Sullivan, decided not to run. The last time three incumbent council seats were...