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...commissioners announced that 23,344 people voted in Tuesday's elections and that 356 ballots were invalid, putting the quota of number one or transfer votes a candidate needs to be ensured a council seat...
...total of 23,363 people turned out to vote, an unusually low turnout in comparison with recent elections. That number will probably put the quota, or number of number one or transfer votes a candidate must have to be ensured a council seat, at somewhere around...
Under Cambridge's system of proportional representation any votes a candidate earns above the quota are redistributed to the second choice on the ballot...
...second candidate on the ballot has also reached the necessary quota the votes go to the number three ballot choice...
Similarly the votes that go to candidate who do not reach the quota are redistributed to the second choice...