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Word: quota (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Duehay, Wolf Re-Elected to City Council | 11/11/1989 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Wolf Tops City Council Voting | 11/9/1989 | See Source »

...first time since his election to the council in 1959, Councillor Walter J. Sullivan failed to meet the quota on the first round...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Wolf Tops City Council Voting | 11/9/1989 | See Source »

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 votes...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Wolf Tops City Council Voting | 11/9/1989 | See Source »

...Still says a neighborhood campaign may beas likely as a citywide one to put a candidateover the quota...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: System of Proportional Representation | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

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